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They say the changes are needed to curb judicial corruption.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YOWQOEMC3RFAXOXZLLVBAM2644","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724041},"content":"Next week may present a major test for the president: The supreme court will rule on whether to strike down key parts of the overhaul, setting up a direct confrontation between two pillars of government that, legal scholars say, has little to no precedent in recent Mexican history.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AOAEXVHVVZA2XCCA7PBFK77TCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724042},"content":"How President Claudia Sheinbaum navigates this moment will offer a window into how she wields her power – and what her vision for the country really is. These are questions that have lingered in the minds of many Mexicans since Morena swept the June elections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LN6JE3ZEKBABPID4PT6DAJ4VNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724043},"content":"Will the president – a scientist by training and a leftist to the core – pursue the aims of her party without giving an inch? 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It also subjects them to review by a disciplinary board made up of elected officials, which critics worry will be a tool for exercising political control over the justice system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4MH6Y6ZKBAONB4TPEKXZZV4TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724047},"content":"López Obrador, Sheinbaum and their allies have argued that the redesign will help eradicate endemic corruption and nepotism in the courts. Congress pushed it through days before the former president’s term ended in September.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBOABTW7CREONNE6F326ASBLRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724048},"content":"“We are building a true rule of law in our country,” Sheinbaum told reporters in October, adding that Mexico’s experiment “will be an example to the world”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z5NM23QMDNCYPEADLLSNPPQZMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724049},"content":"But in a country that just endured one of its most violent election campaign cycles in recent memory, with at least 41 killings of people who were seeking public office, many worry that making judges run for their posts will give organised crime and political actors more influence over how justice is done.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFGEPCJGVRFCHBGEJCMMAZN24A","additional_properties":{"_id":"V2RIQCLGGJCVLI2CYECYELVRHY"},"content":"Mexican snub of Spanish king reopens colonisation dispute","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"AR3K7RCVZRC73FKCI7QHF3OLME","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724050},"content":"For two months, thousands of workers in the federal court system have been on strike to protest against the overhaul. There have already been more than 500 legal challenges to the measure, and several federal judges have ruled in favour of suspending its approval and implementation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AZ6WVXW45DFTNSGNX7NCBXHZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724051},"content":"Eight of the nation’s 11 supreme court justices said this week that they would step down from their posts rather than run for election next summer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWXI2MZA3NDZPN5U56ZCWBQWPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724052},"content":"So far, the president and her allies have largely ignored the legal challenges.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S27JSCBUFNFLJBBLEAZAK22A74","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724053},"content":"In October, congress passed a Bill that would prevent any legal challenges to constitutional amendments, such as the judicial overhaul, on anything but procedural grounds. After most state legislatures approved that measure, the president published it in the government’s official gazette Thursday night, making it law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5Z7AN2NONHSHLW6QLU4XKQTOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724054},"content":"Legal scholars say that could allow legislators to reshape the constitution without any judicial review, even from the supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2F5QOLDFRRFGFKZIDPBFN4GSTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724055},"content":"Next week, the supreme court will consider a resolution to invalidate crucial parts of the judicial overhaul, which could set up a battle with the executive and legislative branches.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZVMTO4BLRHANNOOIEQIM2XVC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724056},"content":"If eight of the 11 justices vote to strike down those elements, including the election of local and federal judges, they cannot legally take effect, legal experts said. Morena officials have already said that legislators would disregard such a ruling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APVI33KIOVHEXHGWPQBCLSVYCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724057},"content":"“A judge is not above the people of Mexico,” Sheinbaum said at a news conference in October. This week, she called the supreme court resolution an inappropriate attempt by the justices to legislate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MNOZFTLNBGDNDP74AYT6TWY7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724058},"content":"If the court approves the resolution, the president will have two options, analysts say.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5RUCDKUYNFRTMSOH73ELIYKM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724059},"content":"She could follow the lead of the hardline power brokers in her party and ignore it. Or she could heed it, and negotiate a way out of the dispute that achieves her party’s goals without rejecting the court’s authority.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBI4QCN2YJGMTFANEJKNHKD4HA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724060},"content":"Defying the justices would thrust the country into uncharted territory, legal scholars say.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VZ4234GJBEMLNNKNS7PC2ZHHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724061},"content":"“If the court makes a decision and the other branches disregard it, at that point we cease to be a constitutional democracy,” said Pedro Salazar, a scholar of constitutional law at the Law Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3C3HHBNWEFAFBPFTSPHUNUQEXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724062},"content":"Accepting the ruling, on the other hand, “would defuse this conflict,” Salazar said. “It would be an act of democratic respect.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFIINPMWW5FVVNBB2VGFJKG3TA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724063},"content":"Yet many argue that Sheinbaum and her Morena party have few incentives to compromise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RJMQYIUPNHERCQLZF2LDPTGJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724064},"content":"She campaigned for office promising to deliver just the kind of overhaul that legislators passed – and she won with the largest margin of victory of any president since Mexico transitioned to democracy in 2000. The governing bloc also secured effective supermajorities in both houses of Congress and most state legislatures and governorships.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWX3OO7BW5AFHMH3EMAK3P2HAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724065},"content":"“Morena won at the polls and has the right to change the way the judicial system works,” said Viri Ríos, a political analyst based in Mexico City. “To forget that is to forget how democracy works and what a democracy is.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GSY3RLMGEBC63FW3AJ2EFJNFEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724066},"content":"– This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/world/americas/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-judicial-overhaul.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"576PXK7NYNAUPKNYYWJDZZBJSQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Natalie Kitroeff and Emiliano Rodriguez Mega in Mexico City"}]},"description":{"basic":"Confrontation between judiciary and governing party set to test Claudia Sheinbaum’s leadership"},"display_date":"2024-11-01T17:51:24.82Z","headlines":{"basic":"Mexico’s new president faces first major crisis","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KU4543H3JZJAJ6ZPEPGOCYCDFI","auth":{"1":"cfd73d0f207e9f72ddbfbac5b342f414b299534611bab7a4959d9758ca98f332"},"focal_point":{"x":2592,"y":1540},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KU4543H3JZJAJ6ZPEPGOCYCDFI.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2024/11/01/mexicos-new-president-faces-first-major-crisis/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"TBYBYMIFBNC3XF5G4K5434YIYA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":120,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/110f5353-5bc6-41a8-b3eb-f4dc72dcca21/versions/1729855729/media/68f0fe9114b07aecbc65cf0d7855231e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2024/10/26/are-markets-too-convinced-of-a-trump-victory/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QPIRJU4ZMJFMHAN3WA3S34ADKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729852704903},"content":"Markets are “very convinced” that Donald Trump will win the US presidential election, according to billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who says you “can see it in the bank stocks”, in cryptocurrency movements and in the soaring stock price of Truth Social, Trump’s social media company.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWT4Q5BLZZBLTPRXQ3S575MFRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729852704904},"content":"Truth Social’s stock price may not be the best indicator, given it is a meme stock prone to wild swings, but Druckenmiller is probably right in saying markets increasingly envisage a Trump victory. 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Shaun wanted to serve authentic Irish food, and he could do anything from the high end to the sherry trifle that your mum would make. He would make dishes that he knew people would enjoy, almost comfort food, but he could also turn out high cuisine.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WB7PJDTT6FHJNNJXLNB3H3XNN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1725002524249},"content":"Collins says Brady had “a very good grounding from the pub scene through to high-end restaurants in Ireland. And he always put on a great show and a great spread for visitors, which helped us organising these events. 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The former Republic of Ireland footballer recalled a wonderful evening spent in Brady’s KC during which they video-called his family back in Tipperary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GP5SNKJLBAT7JUIJ6UOOPOJCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759537},"content":"“To me, on that visit, Shaun was everything great that an Irish man abroad could be,” Quinn told The Irish Times, paying tribute to the Tipperary man on Thursday evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OX7P7M252BFE3LLGY2KJCPGFNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759538},"content":"“Warm, funny, caring and so proud of Nenagh. He had a picture of the original family home place on the wall and was so proud of it. 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Then, as you leave his office, he gives orders for you to be arrested.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJOPIXA2UJCW7PYORKI6TDRELI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345333},"content":"“The senior ranks have very high incentives to support the regime,” says Harold Trinkunas, deputy director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. They also fear being held accountable in future for crimes committed under the regime, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MXLITVHOVGBLIGMKUVOIVQV6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345334},"content":"One senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, declines to comment on whether back-channel talks are under way with Padrino, who has held the defence portfolio and been strategic operational commander of the armed forces since 2014. But he says the military is under pressure from Maduro and from internal political divisions in Venezuela.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2F6OUIRUBF2LLF5PMCTWWUJWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345335},"content":"“Those are pressures that are going to have to be navigated by Venezuela’s military leadership,” he says. “It’s too early to say on which side they will come down, but they’re probably going to play an important role in the process in the coming weeks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AU2MN2S4AJBRJC6NCI3BI52N7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345336},"content":"Maduro trained in Havana in the 1980s and Cuban security and intelligence advisers have been a key part of his entourage for years, providing his personal bodyguards and running an extensive counter-intelligence operation to surveil the military for any signs of disloyalty. Before the election, members of the armed forces made up about half of the country’s political prisoners, according to Foro Penal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GGXEABFUFEBTCXU664UQRZKAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345337},"content":"In recent days, police officers and government supporters have shared images on social media of potential targets for “Operation Knock Knock”, a strategy of harassing opposition members in their homes with visits from security forces. The military have largely remained in the barracks, leaving the police and intelligence agents to do the dirty work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6EQJHV3RRDCHJ6RBBUN3PGPFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345338},"content":"Gonzalo Himiob, the director of Foro Penal, describes the strategy as a policy of indiscriminate repression intended to “neutralise those whom the government interprets as leading the protests, while intimidating the population”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KUAMAUGKQZHE3RF2OAWSAETZ44","additional_properties":{"_id":"FMXNFSC2IBBKTOIHSSEKE4EH2Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"STE357DXVJFRHANIHLRHDCSGPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345339},"content":"So far, the international response to the election and the repression that has followed it has been muted. The US, joined by the EU and many Latin American governments, have not recognised Maduro’s re-election and have asked for proof of his victory. But no deadline has been set for Caracas to produce the voting tallies and there is no word on what will happen if it does not.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUR5BSIGXFC4LEHTSXG2NS5BKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345340},"content":"Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, has said there is “overwhelming evidence” that González won the election and has congratulated him. But US officials were swift to emphasise that they were not going to recognise González as president-elect at this point or impose fresh sanctions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65EFWCNTKFHL7JDKXRTSHMRDWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345341},"content":"US and European policymakers, diplomats say, feel constrained by past failures on Venezuela. A Trump-era policy of “maximum-pressure” economic sanctions failed to dislodge Maduro and aggravated an already deep economic crisis, while a US-led effort in 2019 to recognise Guaidó, then the leader of the national assembly, as Venezuela’s rightful president also flopped.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7DLUAUAR5FNFNW3ZBYUBZMNW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345342},"content":"Now critics have asked whether the Biden administration’s efforts at negotiating with Maduro have also failed. Secret talks in Qatar led to an agreement in September 2023 that sanctions would be lifted if Maduro allowed a free and fair election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKAU6JQK7BC73IVF5J2FVR7BME","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345343},"content":"The US lifted most economic sanctions the following month but reimposed some of them six months later, accusing the Maduro government of not fully complying with the agreement because it had banned some candidates and harassed the opposition campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNGE3IV2DVHGJESZWPGK3U3FZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345344},"content":"The senior US official says the Biden administration is committed to “reassessing and calibrating” its sanctions policy for Venezuela, adding that “the actions and non-actions that the Venezuelans maintain with respect to the election will certainly influence our thinking”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2CXQSV7IBG6LCCALHZ5BSXIX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345345},"content":"“We deeply believe that the vote of the Venezuelan people should be respected,” he says. “We know that many of our allies ... agree with us on this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YRCBBBFX5JCKXA2VLPRHCII2YA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345346},"content":"For now at least, the US has ruled out cancelling the concession Maduro values most: individual licences granted to western oil and gas companies allowing them to pump oil from Venezuela for export. These have helped production to recover from a trough in 2020 to reach around 852,000 barrels per day in July, according to secondary sources cited in the monthly Opec report.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIGIIL35LFFXVOZIJYNUENQKSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345347},"content":"“One of the revelations from all this is the confirmation, once again, that the international community either doesn’t function or doesn’t exist,” says Moisés Naím, a Venezuelan writer and columnist who lives in Washington. He cites the discussion at the Organisation of American States on July 31st, when the body supposed to uphold democratic standards across the Americas was unable to agree a resolution calling on Venezuela to publish full election results “immediately” because Colombia and Brazil abstained while Mexico was absent from the vote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNHRF636FNELZK3D6AHPAVJPXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345348},"content":"Brazil has led this troika of left-leaning Latin American powers in attempting to mediate between Maduro and the opposition but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva raised eyebrows when he said it was “normal” for two sides in an election to disagree about the result and proposed that the courts decide, even though the justice system in Venezuela is under Maduro’s control.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZBMA2V6KDVEKTMCFI4WPWMMLMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345349},"content":"Some analysts believe that the strength of the opposition campaign, the weak vote for the government and the vehemence of the protests show how much support for the Maduro regime has crumbled across social classes of late, forcing it for the first time to blatantly rig an election result.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RXZ3ZOJY4NC7JEWWIHU6OH43SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345350},"content":"“There’s more of a sense of a sinking ship,” says Michael Shifter, former president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington. “Maduro doesn’t look like a guy who is celebrating victory. 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The president is not due to be sworn in for his third term until January, allowing time for negotiations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVAL7KUUABC6TM3MZVFOTLN6PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345353},"content":"A defiant Machado told Mexican journalists that Maduro’s regime has “absolutely zero legitimacy, all it has left is force and that’s where they are hunkered down now. We must keep our civic movement going peacefully.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LB53AT2ONVBSVPBA3JECHRZDPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345356},"content":"She added: “How long will this last? 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The raid on their home on May 16th was triggered by a line Amira reportedly added to her Facebook profile bio on February 24th: “Pursue your passion & you’ll end up enjoying life ... From the RIVER to the SEA, PALASTINE [sic] will be FREE!!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRXRTUS27ZE47GRQHDIPFQKOGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753403},"content":"In Germany, as elsewhere since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7th, that decades-old expression has found new life, popularity – and notoriety.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPQEG3HSOFHIJME3WWWYUURIYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753404},"content":"Palestinians and their allies say the slogan is a call for peace and equality after decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. But many Israelis and Zionist Jews worldwide hear a call for the elimination of their homeland from the map, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan river.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YW6DLZAPCRFDLBTJP2ZNQTLRX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753405},"content":"Last November, in response to the Hamas attack, Germany passed a law defining the expression “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as a hallmark of Hamas, which it classifies as a terrorist organisation. Using the term brings a risk of criminal prosecution, a fine or a prison sentence of up to three years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2QVAH5NWXOTFQTOW4K7SE7FWU","additional_properties":{"_id":"F4QJTYNQ65GQHKLVJSVEEPRA6M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VDFG6N3OPNFDNMTTZUNJUVLSB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753406},"content":"Three months after the dawn raid, Amira says she is afraid to be in the flat on her own. In hindsight she is angry: at not having access to a lawyer at 6am; at how, she says, police insisted she must unlock her iPad – still confiscated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZYBVGJGTJEX3MD7EHIVRMX7KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753407},"content":"Today her lawyer, Benjamin Düsberg, says he has yet to be informed if, or when, Amira will be prosecuted or fined. “You really have to ask yourself,” he says, “if all of this is worth the effort.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQ3NAHYXVZHQTB2GNEM6VGAQ44","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753409},"content":"The effort is clear from Amira’s 75-page case file: full background checks and a covert reconnaissance of the couple’s apartment block, with pictures of their balcony and their doorbell and a list of building exits. The file reveals, too, how the investigation began when a woman in Frankfurt flagged Amira’s Facebook profile with “Hesse against Hate”, a platform operated by the state interior ministry of Hesse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ROFABG46IRCW5LKWVC3JSY74OY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753411},"content":"Platform director Axel Schröder does not want to comment on Amira’s case. He says the work of the platform, which has received 60,000 complaints since going live four years ago, is “always a balancing act”. He is aware of critics who see a new era of digital denunciation, but he points to the many people who see hate speech or incitement online and do nothing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7REXT5QPN5ERPDMIWIA32UHTEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753412},"content":"“Someone might see something they think isn’t right, register it with us, and it will be checked,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QH6VY2JBN5BCREUZONGN3ELSC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753413},"content":"His team passed the complaint against Amira to local prosecutors, who forwarded it on to Berlin. A spokesman for Berlin’s state prosecutor told The Irish Times the flat search last May took place “without any unusual incidents”. A 6am visit is normal, he said, to make sure the person sought is at home. House visits are necessary, he added, to ensure devices sought as evidence are not destroyed or contents erased.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AYZVOBASBH37EABECGCYB3LHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753414},"content":"As for the armed officers, the spokesman said they are deployed for “self-protection ... when there are indications that there are weapons in the apartment”. Anwar says he served in the German armed forces and confirmed he has a gun licence and weapons stored safely in the flat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUMGNY3KQRDNFDDAAIZH2ORY6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753415},"content":"Their case is just one part of Germany’s controversial response to the October 7th attacks, where the past collides with the present. Berlin is not just where the Holocaust was planned, it is home today to a 300,000-strong Palestinian diaspora community, one of the world’s largest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRSTOYW6YBHMPNIPVP7QEGYNSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753416},"content":"Members of that community and their allies say their Gaza solidarity marches and marchers have been targeted and criminalised. Israel-critical artists speak of a crackdown in Germany’s cultural world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PHEGO6CO3BDG3CWMMDXCX3GBPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753417},"content":"As for the new “river to the sea” ban, neither Germany’s federal interior ministry nor Berlin’s state prosecutor can provide numbers of those facing legal action. 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The court disagreed. Using the phrase four days after the attacks, it ruled, meant the phrase could only be understood as a denial of Israel’s right to exist and support for the attack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQEY44JEBRCJXITU6PJQVTZTIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753421},"content":"Nine months on, confusion reigns over how much leeway German judges have – and how much context matters – under the new law when they hear “from the river to the sea” cases.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3SFSS5LJJJHLLJ5SUGCKLRYJZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753422},"content":"In May, two courts in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg made opposite rulings on “river to the sea” cases. A month later, the highest administrative court in neighbouring Bavaria ruled the slogan was ambiguous and punishable by law if used in a clear context of support for Hamas. If not, it ruled, the meaning most favourable for the person making the statement must be assumed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCVYG33UFZFDHJV4SOTNWCNN74","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753423},"content":"The Central Council of Jews in Germany, the country’s largest such organisation, calls the phrase a “Hamas battle cry” for “the annihilation of Israel and the expulsion and extermination of the Jews living there”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZLUCCCODZAEZNJGYQLUIXQE5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753424},"content":"It has welcomed Germany’s ban but says legislators have an “urgent obligation” to act to end contradictory court rulings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24LJJWLKYRDFJEDV7DPHOKWMPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753425},"content":"Many Middle East historians take a different view. Some see “from the river to the sea” as calling for an end to fragmentation of Palestinian lands through Israeli occupation, others as a historical rally cry to push back against foreign rule in postwar decades by Israel, Jordan and Egypt.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXYKJHMAYVD5LPKX7W4O6XOI4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753426},"content":"US Middle East scholar Elliott Colla, an associate professor at the University of Georgetown, says such slogans “are never statements etched in stone, but rather fragments of an ongoing, contentious debate or conversation”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VKVNUKHJZJCLBH6BSTTHOU4J7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753427},"content":"For him, Germany’s “from the river to the sea” prosecutions “should be ridiculed for the travesty they are”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NXWO6WNZFJBQXNDNGV5NYWOFMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753428},"content":"As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on, Germany’s legal-political-historical battle over “from the river to the sea” is also a culture war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZLSOY4TDVFSVABWJH2BHVR2XY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723830782967},"content":"When it comes to the use of a contested phrase, what counts more: intention or perception? 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Over more than 200 years, the two nations have evolved from fighting wars with each other to knitting a close web of trading, investment and cultural links.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2S6SWEFIZHQXOJSHDG7AUPI6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076484},"content":"Mexico is the US’s biggest trading partner and the US is the largest foreign investor in Mexico. More than 37 million people of Mexican descent live in the US, an estimated 1.6 million Americans dwell in Mexico and the US embassy in Mexico City is among Washington’s biggest missions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZDYLSRXIJA3NCOS37F2JKFJYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076485},"content":"At the start of his term in 2018, López Obrador, a charismatic populist, established a surprisingly good relationship with Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGE6P437KRF4LBE4DLS3PWZAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076486},"content":"When campaigning for the White House, Trump had called Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers, and as president vowed to impose tariffs if Mexico did not stem migration, but the two men quickly made a deal. Trump needed illegal migration cut, while López Obrador wanted the economic benefits from the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA).","type":"text"},{"_id":"GB4VI6F2NNB25MPVHMLPMOM55E","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076487},"content":"Some Democrats in Washington and the opposition in Mexico City had hoped that the Biden administration would break with Trump’s transactional approach towards Mexico, stand up for democracy and human rights and ease harsh migration rules.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3NWMJXCU5DWZBV2DKH4C7YWQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076489},"content":"The Biden administration initially eased some of the most draconian Trump-era restrictions on migrants. But it soon became clear that, as US voters grew more concerned about illegal migration, foreign policy principles would again take a back seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEG7VTIKQBHXRA7MHGHTX2EL4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076490},"content":"“There was always going to be a desire to be pragmatic about the relationship,” says Ricardo Zúniga, who served in Biden’s Latin America team as principal deputy assistant secretary of state. “The Biden team ... understood they needed Mexico’s help on migration. There wasn’t a sense of coming in to try to lecture or ... totally reset a relationship where López Obrador was understood to be quite powerful domestically”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2IDB7BHWJFPLMR2CWFZRJ6QLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076491},"content":"López Obrador had a reputation as a prickly nationalist, with an instinctive anti-Americanism that is common on the Latin American left. To deal with him, Biden picked an old friend and former Senate colleague, Ken Salazar, as ambassador to Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSDJHY4BHZA7ZZDKBATTQ2JLQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"B7FZ2B65XJEFPDPTYJGJSMVVMI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5KNIQBJY5RHTXJQ7HW5PMNT434","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076492},"content":"He also tasked Harris to deal with the root causes of migration to the US by working with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, three Central American nations that were historically sources of many of the migrants, to improve their economies, tackle crime and reduce violence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GN273F3RS5BE7ML3GRQF7LJX5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076493},"content":"Salazar arrived in Mexico City with a clear objective. “His instruction from Biden was to get up close and friendly with Amlo,” another ambassador in Mexico says, referring to the Mexican leader by his initials. “The Americans were almost intimidated by Amlo.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVGQWSMPTRBHTGJZQZEO2LSXC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076494},"content":"Salazar quickly established a close rapport with López Obrador – so close that it disturbed some senior diplomats at the US embassy, who felt he went too far to please his hosts. “He handles the bilateral relationship himself and has been very effective in sidelining the entire state department,” says one US diplomat, speaking off the record. “He is always reminding people he is a personal friend of Biden’s. But Mexican officials call him a ‘useful idiot’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FXUUXLMJAVAONMF62WK2FXL7TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076495},"content":"A US state department official says that “ambassador [Ken] Salazar and his team in Mission Mexico work side by side with our department of state colleagues in Washington and our Mexican partners to advance US interests”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOZZKXUE25HSXG42MPH4WYTHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076496},"content":"For his part, López Obrador has been quick to understand how to use the leverage that migration has given him over the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2C3DKAB7ZRHZVJIPB6T4FH7FFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076497},"content":"“You had someone who was the ultimate politician,” says Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. “He is an incredibly skilled negotiator and it came naturally to him to find the trade-offs he wants”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPDIQGQ2KBGRHPRJ6LGQZU4BTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076498},"content":"When Biden entered office in January 2021, he immediately faced a diplomatic dilemma on Mexico involving a former minister for defence and top military commander accused of drug trafficking. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials had arrested general Salvador Cienfuegos in October as he travelled through Los Angeles airport with his family for a holiday, accusing him of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines and laundering the proceeds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPYRGSYHNFEXFP35CBDZKI4X2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076499},"content":"Despite the general’s seniority – he had been minister for defence for six years until 2018 – López Obrador initially appeared to accept his guilt. But, under pressure from Mexico’s military, he quickly switched to suggesting that the charges were false and demanding Cienfuegos’s release.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6INLHISKKRHR5JTV63R54IX7U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076500},"content":"He threatened to expel all DEA agents from Mexico and to end co-operation on fighting the drug trade, a crucial area of concern for the US because of the flood of illegal cocaine and fentanyl across the border.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3SUJ3DHRNFV3IYGOOKQIJE7EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076501},"content":"Two weeks later, the Trump administration capitulated. Cienfuegos was released and sent back to Mexico on the understanding that charges would be pursued there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMUHZYMWNFCRHBSANZFSYFVHJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076502},"content":"But days before Biden took office, Mexican prosecutors announced they had no grounds to charge Cienfuegos. López Obrador then ordered the release of the hundreds of pages of confidential evidence which the US had shared with Mexico, and denounced the case as fabricated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RFTZBU7E4BO2N56DCZPSUHZKY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GXA7T64BXZCATODE6UZJG6ZELE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5NRLZQQYYFEMPNNYM7N2LG5KYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076503},"content":"A US department of justice spokesperson said at the time it was “deeply disappointed” by the case’s closure. Last year López Obrador decorated the general for his service. “Neither Trump nor Biden was going to do anything to [López Obrador] that he would get upset about, if it meant the threat of limited co-operation on migration,” says Castañeda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDSP6SCWWBDHNII7L2DQUTKTDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076504},"content":"López Obrador has relied increasingly on the military to execute his top priority projects. The armed forces were put in charge of everything from big construction projects to a new federal police force, violating a constitutional rule that police should be under civilian command. During his term, López Obrador has also given them control of airports, ports, the customs service and even an airline.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3D75Y7BG3JFWDPOC4IW3Q44RMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076506},"content":"But while the US criticised authoritarianism in other countries in the region such as El Salvador and sent strong messages to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/brazil/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil’s</a> military about the need to respect the constitution under the presidency of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jair-bolsonaro/\" target=\"_blank\">Jair Bolsonaro</a>, there has been no similar effort in Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5B77PIFJSFECXOPSZMWIXLP27E","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076507},"content":"The Biden administration also failed to speak out against López Obrador’s attacks on key democratic institutions in Mexico, such as the supreme court, when it came under siege from government supporters last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJXRKQPXC5H73JBYPHGFFVZRNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076508},"content":"López Obrador had vilified the institution constantly in his daily news conferences after it ruled against some of his most cherished initiatives. Pro-government demonstrators set up an encampment outside the court building in the centre of Mexico City last summer, plastering it with slogans such as “Corrupt traitor justices, you are fired”. Norma Piña, the court’s president, was portrayed on a large poster stuck to the building’s walls as a “narco-pig” and protesters burnt her effigy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDP5VTGQJ5D4LDCUPFCTCW3KOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076509},"content":"When the Bolsonaro government in Brazil attacked the supreme court, cozied up to the military and questioned the electoral system, the Biden administration responded with a strong and co-ordinated effort to shore up Brazilian democracy, yet in Mexico, attacks by pro-government demonstrators on a key democratic institution did not prompt the same reaction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZNSQY4BQZHMTD7JDZL35LODMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076510},"content":"“There was concern,” says the Pacific Council’s Wood, “but they felt they were held hostage by migration ... They could have been tougher.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBE6IUPXPVFCZB43U6ZVA54HZI","additional_properties":{"_id":"BLIODX4LQ5AT3H27A5RX6HGD64"},"content":"Biden imposes sweeping measures to bar migrants from asylum at Mexico border","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"EXY243LYSFF3JPUJPDOG6DGBN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076511},"content":"The state department official says the US co-ordinates closely with Mexico “on a wide range of important issues ... even as we make clear the need for strong democratic institutions”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLOQXHXBA5DBXPOOUYFNCTP5PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076512},"content":"Now in the final months of his tenure, López Obrador has proposed to replace the supreme court with popularly elected judges – a move non-governmental organisations say would risk turning it into an appendage of the ruling party. Salazar, the ambassador, has said a strong justice system is important but that it is up to Mexicans to decide any changes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QHU426UDZHGLPAJH5ME4PBG5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076513},"content":"“They depend on us over fentanyl and migration,” says one minister in López Obrador’s cabinet. “This government is more assertive in its relationship with the US government. It drives hard bargains.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"1d337356-2dd9-444f-8398-b9a8d392d72f","additional_properties":{"_id":"P7VGQB2H6BCZTGOTWXBL6SYB5Q"},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"CZPVL7URP5HD7MQUPLTC6PLVTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076514},"content":"Buoyed by the Biden administration’s reticence, López Obrador has felt strong enough to pursue a foreign policy that at times ran counter to US interests. After <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia </a>invaded <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine</a>, he invited Moscow’s troops to parade at Mexico’s Independence Day celebration and described US military aid to Ukraine as “irrational”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNYS2ZGMLFAN7HLKX3EPVUJJEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076515},"content":"He sent free oil to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cuba/\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba </a>and invited <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/venezuela/\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela’s</a> authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, who has a $15 million (€13.7 million) price on his head in the US for alleged drug trafficking, to a regional summit in Mexico City.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G22NM7W4CFAMLBOZYDCGR2GFVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076516},"content":"Most strikingly, he snubbed Biden when the US president hosted the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June 2022, an absence which emboldened several other Latin American leaders to skip the event. Yet the following month Biden invited him to the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DME3KM4RZ5CS3NITG72AHSOXPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076517},"content":"US businesses have struggled with López Obrador’s nationalist and statist policies. The Mexican leader squeezed private investment in the energy sector, reversing a gradual opening under his predecessor. Other measures included banning the import of genetically modified corn from the US and cancelling a permit for a half-built US brewery in northern Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NEV3RPHLNBS5NGQZCIWPE54TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076518},"content":"Even though the energy policy appeared to violate the USMCA, the US did not pursue the dispute procedure designed to deal with such cases. More than three years after López Obrador legislated to increase state control over electricity generation, Washington has not convened a dispute resolution panel. Salazar says he had spent hours in meetings between US energy companies and López Obrador and that several companies had moved forward with large investments as a result.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4QMHT5ETZGYLBENBTEKDCBJDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076519},"content":"Another headache for businesses has been the explosion of organised crime under López Obrador’s “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding open conflict with drug cartels. “Security has grown exponentially as a topic for companies,” says one business lobby head in Mexico. “Big US corporations didn’t use to have a problem ... but not any longer.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWFD3REK4RBEJDPHMYQKOJP4XU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076520},"content":"Migration is likely to remain a big and divisive issue in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-election/\" target=\"_blank\">US November election</a>, even after Biden’s withdrawal. Trump lost no time in attacking Harris on her record, saying last week that “as border tsar, Kamala threw open our borders and allowed 20 million illegal aliens to stampede into our country ... Kamala, you’ve done a terrible job”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLD7DZFCSVDWXIKBK6IGHHVTHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076521},"content":"Harris aides have pointed out that the vice-president was never a “border tsar” and was instead tasked with tackling the root causes of migration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X7WTDGCCI2LLEGBUIKFGIMOYTA","additional_properties":{"_id":"FO4MZWYS5ZBJVKT4MMCCCHRJS4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"IVQ4SCIFWNA4LDMQIY26ME5HQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076522},"content":"This strategy foundered when political repression and economic crisis in Venezuela and Cuba triggered a big exodus from those nations. Security crises in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ecuador/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuador </a>and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/haiti/\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti </a>added more migrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HAY3NSF75BSPGIHDBRXZHQ3QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076523},"content":"Harris has said little about migration since Biden withdrew from the presidential race but her record as one of 10 senators who voted against the USMCA is likely to worry Mexico more than her views on migration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E65WN7REMRBR7OKO5C6AJ33R4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076524},"content":"Scheinbaum, López Obrador’s handpicked successor, won a landslide victory in June elections and their Morena party has enough votes in congress to rewrite the constitution – something the Mexican president intends to do before leaving office. Using the justification of rooting out corruption, the measures he has discussed include sweeping changes to the courts and the electoral system and dismantling independent regulators.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z3G63M6DXBBFPNXQ77ESVIJ4GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076525},"content":"“Washington needs to pay serious and undivided attention to the potential reforms that López Obrador and Morena will seek to ram through in September,” says Arturo Sarukhán, a former Mexican ambassador to the US. “If Mexico morphs into an illiberal democracy on its doorstep, there will be three winners: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\" target=\"_blank\">China</a>, Russia and Cuba.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVASIDZU4NGJXD3LBT6RQUE4LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076526},"content":"Civil society groups, opposition politicians and Mexico experts bemoan the erosion of the country’s democratic institutions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGJFEFAUJBEHFIUL3AMOWUBBNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076527},"content":"“López Obrador ran rings around us on trade, foreign policy, Venezuela, migration and counter-narcotics co-operation,” rues a former US state department official, who asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity of the topic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBJCCM2NHJBPHJU7ZRHPAGPJRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076529},"content":"“While every nation prioritises its national interests, given that Mexico is our biggest trading partner and impacts the United States in so many ways, our failure to develop much beyond the transactional relationship we had under Trump is noteworthy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VP547BZZWZA7TH3ILUGRRP2WF4","additional_properties":{"_id":"GNZBE6MXIVDTXDXZ73V2NV2VEA"},"content":"How Mexico’s president won over the working class","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"THDBY3CKJVHYJI3FD44KKDW3KQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076530},"content":"Castañeda traces what he calls a US indifference to Mexico’s domestic politics back to the chaos in the 1920s following the Mexican revolution and “this sort of Faustian pact that the Americans wrote subconsciously with the Mexicans”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYTYGFYII5EJFEGJZILSOMKM74","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076531},"content":"“As long as the place is stable, as long as core American interests are not threatened, meaning property and people, let the Mexicans govern themselves any goddamn way they want.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2APWBVCQ5DWVM324W4PWXO23M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076532},"content":"But some Mexican civil society leaders feel let down by the Biden and Trump administrations’ failure to defend democracy more robustly. “There’s been very little, a very timid expression of concern on topics which are basic for a trade partner such as Mexico in terms of defending human rights and freedoms,” says Lorenzo Córdova, former president of the independent electoral institute INE.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYUSOJBEAVCYDAA4NM26VXUVQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076533},"content":"“If you undermine the rule of law in Mexico, this will create a problem which affects US interests. 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The authority reaffirmed a similar margin on Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNXF4TCOD5AN5IB3E2YW24TCN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722752233910},"content":"The published election result sparked widespread allegations of fraud and protests. Subsequently, security forces cracked down on protests which Maduro’s government labelled part of an attempted <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\" target=\"_blank\">US</a>-backed coup.","type":"text"},{"_id":"32PKEVG2ARH63ORT7ZQTCNVMYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722752233911},"content":"“This time there will be no forgiveness,” Maduro told supporters at a rally in Caracas, where he said some 2,000 people had been detained in connection to “crimes” during the protests. 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This, allied to the expressions of support Caracas has received from the dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua and a smattering of leftist governments such as those in Bolivia and Honduras, has further complicated efforts to come up with a regional response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UHJLMOPI7FESFLNR32GEEAQORA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722613710371},"content":"This is now being led by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/brazil/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil </a>and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/colombia/\" target=\"_blank\">Colombia</a>, respectively Latin America’s most powerful state and the one hosting the most Venezuelan refugees, and both run by left-wing presidents who have in the past sought to keep open lines of communication with Maduro.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K7MHBF7L25EQ3L6ZSROK4GV6JA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722613710372},"content":"But the effort so far is ad hoc as regional bodies are largely moribund. Unasur, the Union of South American Nations which was created to deepen regional integration, is all but defunct. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mercosur/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercosur</a>, Latin America’s largest trade bloc that Venezuela once flirted with joining, is currently paralysed by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/argentina/\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina’s</a> de facto boycott of the group since the election of radical libertarian Javier Milei as president last year. 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But the Venezuelan strongman insulted him during the closing stretch of the campaign after Lula criticised <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/americas/2024/07/26/fears-and-hope-before-venezuelan-election-that-could-bring-rebuilding-or-a-bloodbath/\" target=\"_blank\">his threats of a bloodbath if he lost</a>, emphasising the likely limits to regional pressure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TVPJINJWGREZZJFBPCCEQHWZL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514259},"content":"Domestically Maduro has shown he is more than willing to face down protests and has a state apparatus to do so. Dozens of protesters have been killed in previous rounds of street demonstrations and government death squads have killed thousands more in what a United Nations report said was a regime-orchestrated campaign to suppress dissent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZQRYQ3DJYBBBTDAR3GGTZIDKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514260},"content":"The election campaign showed a surprising level of public enthusiasm for the opposition after years of apathy following previous defeats imposed on it by the regime. But whether sufficient numbers of people will be willing to risk confrontation with the state’s security forces to have their votes respected will be seen in the coming days, should opposition leaders call for protests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LB36NO2KORHJTFSKMYIJCTOC4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514261},"content":"Maduro will also be confident the military leadership will remain loyal, as it has during past attempts to force him from power. It is deeply implicated in his regime’s criminality and previous efforts by the opposition to bring it over to its side have always ended in failure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LXUWRI72FBBNROQZNW32AZCRRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514262},"content":"That said, the army is not a monolith. About half of the country’s 300 or so political prisoners are members of the armed forces and some in the high command must worry about how state repression and the economic collapse that have sent more than 7.7 million Venezuelans fleeing abroad have also impacted on military families as well as the military’s own capabilities and prospects for maintaining them in the future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QS3MYPXDYRANDKM45LAHHESBUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514263},"content":"These could dim further if the United States responds to Sunday’s apparent fraud by swiftly reimposing sanctions it partially lifted after Maduro signed up to “free and fair” elections in the Barbados Accord last year. 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Trump, who was himself found liable for sexual abuse, moved to elevate three men accused of sexual misconduct – one with a minor – to fill three crucial cabinet posts: leading the justice, defence and health and human services departments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EVCT42VEOFF2DJ3JWJQEY4YTOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960180},"content":"It is a searing affront to women.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FMSX3KKCEJGYPDPSXV67KFE5PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960181},"content":"As Julia Baird writes in her new book, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything, “In truth, we rarely care about violence against women, so foundational is it to our culture.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VG75PWCIPZH3XB3VGLXCKVZEHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960182},"content":"When <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/21/matt-gaetz-drops-bid-to-be-trump-attorney-general-in-face-of-senate-opposition/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Gaetz dropped out</a>, Trump learned that some people are so repellent, not even he can force them down the throat of craven Republicans in Congress. Some Republicans balk at a Fox News weekend host running our military, much less one who paid a woman who accused him of rape to head off a lawsuit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXYH76LZAVBCBJU6QGVKT2ETOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960183},"content":"“It’s a pretty big problem, given that we have, you know, we have a sexual assault problem in our military,” Republican Senator Kevin Cramer said of Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYTRD3XJYBCM3AU343EDOEUTG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960184},"content":"And it’s not just men with sordid incidents. Linda McMahon, Trump’s selection for education secretary, has been accused in a lawsuit, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, of allowing a man in their company, World Wrestling Entertainment, to groom and sexually abuse children in the 1980s and 90s. 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That probably needed some course correction because it was pushing men into Trump’s manosphere. It never should have been simply: Believe all women. It should have been: Don’t disbelieve women automatically; investigate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTBXNYCJK5AWTLUSCXOAKJA53M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960190},"content":"Now we’re back using “he said/she said” to dismiss a woman who filed a police complaint, full of lurid detail, against Hegseth. Bill Hagerty, a Republican senator from Tennessee, said the accusations were a “disgrace”, nothing but “he said/she said”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXL46PUAVRGQ7BLJLQPYV46KNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960191},"content":"In putting forward three men accused of sexual misconduct, Trump is conveying that men like himself are the perpetual victims of lies, so it should not be disqualifying.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLVJAFERGZE3XOW3IFZMOPD6TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960192},"content":"He is turning what he told Billy Bush on the “Access Hollywood” tape into a presidential mantra: “When you’re a star, they let you do it. 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In all likelihood they bury his attempts to have an amnesty bill passed in congress that would overturn his ban on running for office before 2030 for his public attacks against the voting system two years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RABHARFIFJFMDDGPJEIE5OY7PM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WXQ7V22LDZB4XFQ2EOTG567GGU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"2TDH2WCNJBDPVPKZZXMU3V5AGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272027},"content":"For the reputation of Brazil’s armed forces this week’s accusations are a severe blow that could bring institutional instability in their wake. Among those charged are some of the most illustrious military figures of recent generations, men such as the highly decorated retired general Augusto Heleno, who once led the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLJDVRPDMBEPBE6TGML3B6PXR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272028},"content":"Though it never apologised for the crimes committed during its last dictatorship, the military had worked hard since it returned to barracks in the 1980s to present itself as a modern, professional outfit now dedicated to democracy. But Bolsonaro actively sought to drag “my army” back into domestic politics during his term in office.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3JFAWNI3VG5YQY6ZVG5LM76RA","additional_properties":{"_id":"JZDPGLJFN5AYTJ22P3N77ABWI4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KTXCSWCPRJEERFHKYR76W73W24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272029},"content":"Many serving and retired officers were only too happy to acquiesce in his effort, either because they shared his far-right nationalist ideology or were tempted by the high salaries lavished on those holding senior positions in Brazil’s bureaucracy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A55BVDQPNRGYNGFUXEDFKSMPLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272030},"content":"The resulting politicisation of the military eventually saw generals break military regulations to openly campaign for Bolsonaro, become involved in his administration’s corruption and, after it looked like he would lose his bid for re-election, engage in his campaign to undermine Brazil’s electoral process in favour of their boss. Now according to the federal police charges the rot ran much deeper and saw serving and retired generals lead an effort not just to overthrow the 2022 election but to murder the victors and the judge who oversaw the whole process.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZD3SAPIDRF2ZLVFHLYAH7XQJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272031},"content":"The military’s public efforts in 2022 at undermining confidence in the electoral system already laid bare how tenuous among significant sectors of the armed forces was their supposed commitment to being a non-political institution in a democratic state. These new charges if proven would raise serious questions about the military’s commitment to democracy given the senior ranks of many of those accused of coup plotting this week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZVUTLGEPVA53KGMTOTLAMYBTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The current high command can of course point to the fact that a majority of senior officers did not get involved. 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Bolsonaro himself benefited from this culture, allowed to retire with the rank of captain rather than be charged with insubordination for his cack-handed plan to place bombs as part of a campaign for greater pay in the 1980s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7N2WYGMENE5FBMBWMTKCK3DFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272034},"content":"The risk now is the armed forces, which clearly have many bolsonaristas within their ranks, will drag its heels on confronting these anti-democratic elements. 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Instead of Bolsonaro’s natural heir Marçal represents the emergence of the next generation of anti-system politicians, only now, unlike with Bolsonaro – a political low-life for three decades before he became president –, coming straight from the wild west of Brazil’s social media universe with no political background.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TXEOX6H7GVD7JEZ4OQPETKAREQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505014},"content":"All politicians understand the increasing importance of social media in Brazilian elections. But Marçal’s whole public persona was incubated there. He is a natural at the emotional engagement that drives interactions. 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He has become a social media behemoth selling expensive motivational courses by promoting himself as a successful entrepreneur, though his fortune – the largest ever in the race – has raised eyebrows given how quickly it was accumulated and the fact he was previously convicted of financial fraud.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSFONQTSVRGA3MZAWPEWCVXCYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505016},"content":"But after a lost decade of economic stagnation and a public sphere laid waste by a lack of investment, many young Brazilians are increasingly embracing a radical – at times libertarian – entrepreneurial vision for their lives. For many it does not matter so much how Marçal became rich, just that he is. 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As he once told a church congregation: “The more God blesses you, the more you are persecuted.” In this context the police investigation into him for money laundering only reinforces followers’ belief in him as a righteous outsider fighting against a corrupt system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YY7MNB7OYFDZRKI6UXDX7SOVQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505019},"content":"That may be, or he may not have entirely left his criminal past behind him. 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Mr Maduro’s administration has accused Mr González and his key backer, the prominent opposition leader Ms Machado, of being part of a US-backed “fascist” counter-revolution targeting their Chavista regime.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCV2HVSLOJHFVB5MAFXUX6PDLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1725858842084},"content":"Mr Cabello has repeatedly called Mr González – whom friends and acquaintances describe as a softly spoken public servant and grandfather – a coup-mongering “rat”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"c776a2f6-ddc5-4611-8011-a57004526cc8","additional_properties":{"_id":"Y6JBXA3MLJERHJN45DKIG6KHOI"},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"QHFV7JQF3JH6FLSQRRUHMPJEJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1725858842085},"content":"Joel García, a lawyer who has defended several opposition figures in Venezuela, said that if Mr González was charged with everything the government has accused him of, he could face a jail sentence of 30 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPEAI4JO3ZDKBF6GRULAQ7BRPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1725858842086},"content":"Speaking at a socialist party meeting on Saturday, Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, had described the opposition leader as “a hero who Spain will not abandon”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBDE7GBD3BAUXOPPAC5TG3KZL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1725858842087},"content":"Venezuela has been in political crisis since authorities declared Mr Maduro the winner of the July 28th vote with a score of 52 per cent. 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Two days of street demonstrations were extinguished by a harsh government crackdown nicknamed Operación Tun Tun (Operation Knock Knock).","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZDHZ6NSJRAYXBZ6NRX2F7S6Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1725858842090},"content":"Human rights groups say more than 1,700 people have been detained, including more than 100 teenagers and several key opposition figures who were captured by secret police.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFHCXZPBQZCLZELIDURNBVTG4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726394397677},"content":"Six other important opposition figures are holed up at Argentina’s embassy in Caracas, which is in the custody of Brazil because Mr Maduro has cut ties with Buenos Aires. 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Asked by the Guardian on Thursday if she planned to abandon her country, the 56-year-old conservative was categorical, replying: “I believe my duty is to stay in Venezuela.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"647RCPCHDVHDRCGCLBED65OHEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1725858842102},"content":"However, she admitted that every day it became “harder and riskier” to stay given the “dangerous times” the country was living through.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OZLXOAGQBNEVJMKB7FLXOVN64A","additional_properties":{"_id":1725858842103},"content":"The Chavista era began a quarter of a century ago after the 1998 election of Mr Maduro’s mentor, Hugo Chávez. 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Going to Shaun’s restaurant was home away from home. There is a lot of anger along with the grief we are holding because he was such a gem of a guy – a great father, husband, friend, comrade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LPG3MQCVYFB4JAF22QARWX2SZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759530},"content":"The murder leaves many in the Irish community in Kansas in the strange situation in which they will simultaneously mourn his death, celebrate his life and get on with the necessary business of completing another successful festival.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6OM4RRCMSNATDNRXCFU2KKKN4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759531},"content":"“Shaun was such a big personality,” says Ronan Collins, a Dublin native who has lived in Kansas City for almost 30 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKWRY6ADQJBCDNKP35ZD55J2QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759532},"content":"“He instigated the Sunday morning breakfast at the Irish Fest. Shaun wanted to serve authentic Irish food, and he could do anything from the high end to the sherry trifle that your mum would make. He would make dishes that he knew people would enjoy, almost comfort food, but he could also turn out high cuisine.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WB7PJDTT6FHJNNJXLNB3H3XNN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1725002524249},"content":"Collins says Brady had “a very good grounding from the pub scene through to high-end restaurants in Ireland. And he always put on a great show and a great spread for visitors, which helped us organising these events. 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The couple moved from Chicago to Kansas City in 2013 and have two children, Seamus (12) and Mary (10).","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSUXQLVOMZGARMVNU7VQEJ4DZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759534},"content":"“Shaun was a vibrant person with a colourful vocabulary,” says Pat O’Neill, another Irish Fest organiser and the author of From The Bottom Up, an authoritative account of the Irish influence in Kansas City.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S7KPJBWG6FHVXCJE2NHSQQZNRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759535},"content":"“He wouldn’t argue with that, I don’t think. People are sometimes surprised to learn that we have such a large and active Irish-American and Irish-born community here. The Irish were the largest immigrant group to Kansas City, and we have a lot of first-, second- and third-generation folks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PP3VIJKID5ACXJOLG46YRFEYXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1725002524257},"content":"O’Neill says that Shaun was “one of those who stood out because of his character”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4CJRBZTAVHMHESJMIJVMEM73I","additional_properties":{"_id":1725002524258},"content":"“He was funny and hard-working, and straight from the hip. But he had the softest heart. I mean, he helped so many of us through bereavement periods involving family. He was the first there with the store to give away food or accommodation at the restaurant. And he would tear up when someone in our community was lost or hurt. Those are my impressions of Shaun. 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The former Republic of Ireland footballer recalled a wonderful evening spent in Brady’s KC during which they video-called his family back in Tipperary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GP5SNKJLBAT7JUIJ6UOOPOJCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759537},"content":"“To me, on that visit, Shaun was everything great that an Irish man abroad could be,” Quinn told The Irish Times, paying tribute to the Tipperary man on Thursday evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OX7P7M252BFE3LLGY2KJCPGFNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1724998759538},"content":"“Warm, funny, caring and so proud of Nenagh. He had a picture of the original family home place on the wall and was so proud of it. 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Independent surveys before the election showed Maduro between 20 and 30 points behind González and the gap was growing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZVA66ZBEJGLXNMFTYSKAONBRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345322},"content":"But if it had planned all along on snatching victory, the government’s methods on election night seemed crude. The transmission of results from around 15,000 polling stations nationwide was interrupted about two hours after voting ended, while some opposition witnesses were refused copies of printed voting tally sheets and ordered to leave polling stations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2BKPJXISIJHAHP7WRJ4VSUJDOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345323},"content":"The opposition’s own count, pieced together from tally sheets its supporters did collect, showed a landslide victory for González with 67 per cent of votes against 30 per cent for Maduro – vastly different from the official result, which handed Maduro victory by 51.2 per cent to 44.2 per cent. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWVZOAENINDM7NKRT4E4BNR2IQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The government-controlled electoral council has not produced a breakdown of voting despite mounting international pressure, and attorney-general Tarek Saab has blamed a cyber attack from North Macedonia for disrupting the count.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JDLEWBY4NREZVJFV2OIFDTPGYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723832805103},"content":"If the government’s election fix was clumsy, its repression strategy was more sophisticated. Maduro has deployed a well-oiled machine of state control, which spans the armed forces, the Bolivarian National Guard (a military police force), paramilitaries and three different intelligence services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVYRHHPJ6VCPPB6XILBB3IJCE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345325},"content":"Chávez, the founder of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution”, reorganised the military and the security services in the wake of a failed coup in 2002, replacing vertical army commands with a hub-and-spoke system that distributed power among a large number of generals and spread troops across the country, making it difficult for the military to challenge the president.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7OB26RZPVBERRKSSJHWSCWRKBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345326},"content":"“The generals are like nodes in a network rather than a hierarchy,” says a former senior Venezuelan military officer who defected several years ago. “Generals are important as links to a political or economic group or a criminal group who can speak in the name of the regime, rather than as commanders who mobilise troops.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AMP3336Y6FHLTMZHTCYBZPZU3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345327},"content":"Loyalty is rewarded by regular promotions – Venezuela has an estimated 2,000 generals and admirals in an active duty military of around 130,000 men, though exact figures are impossible to obtain. Several reports by researchers and advocacy groups have documented the military’s role in running key sectors of the economy, including the all-important oil industry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGMIQQQMGPQEUVLP45DWVQCZQM","additional_properties":{"_id":"KGBDJYBCOJASNDP6T2XOK2AW2I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YX5AOPD6OVE4VHIF3HRGJS67LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345328},"content":"Other areas include the illegal mining of gold in the southern Amazon region, where it provides protection for drug traffickers shipping out cocaine, and controlling ports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SGKTBXGU2RDGDKM5IKEGMKVH6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345329},"content":"To avoid forcing troops to crush civilian protests, internal security is mainly the task of the Bolivarian National Guard, together with the national police, intelligence agencies and armed civilian paramilitaries known as “colectivos”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U5NQM4HVJJBDDLTUSRJABUAJL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345330},"content":"Western governments and foreign analysts often speculate about possible splits in the security services or secret back channel negotiations with key figures, such as long-serving defence minister Vladimir Padrino. So far, these have never led anywhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIOIB27N5ZBODLIRDZI2CVQ4GM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345331},"content":"In 2019, opposition leader Juan Guaidó appeared outside a barracks calling for a military uprising after what opposition sources said were secret assurances from Padrino that he would back the mutiny. No soldiers joined in and the rebellion quickly fizzled out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRRPM3AKGBGDVOWCMQ4PK3S3AU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345332},"content":"“Padrino’s nickname inside the army is ‘Soap’ because he is so slippery,” says the former senior military officer. “He is a person who can hug you and say: ‘Brother, I am with you’. Then, as you leave his office, he gives orders for you to be arrested.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJOPIXA2UJCW7PYORKI6TDRELI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345333},"content":"“The senior ranks have very high incentives to support the regime,” says Harold Trinkunas, deputy director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. They also fear being held accountable in future for crimes committed under the regime, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MXLITVHOVGBLIGMKUVOIVQV6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345334},"content":"One senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, declines to comment on whether back-channel talks are under way with Padrino, who has held the defence portfolio and been strategic operational commander of the armed forces since 2014. But he says the military is under pressure from Maduro and from internal political divisions in Venezuela.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2F6OUIRUBF2LLF5PMCTWWUJWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345335},"content":"“Those are pressures that are going to have to be navigated by Venezuela’s military leadership,” he says. “It’s too early to say on which side they will come down, but they’re probably going to play an important role in the process in the coming weeks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AU2MN2S4AJBRJC6NCI3BI52N7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345336},"content":"Maduro trained in Havana in the 1980s and Cuban security and intelligence advisers have been a key part of his entourage for years, providing his personal bodyguards and running an extensive counter-intelligence operation to surveil the military for any signs of disloyalty. Before the election, members of the armed forces made up about half of the country’s political prisoners, according to Foro Penal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GGXEABFUFEBTCXU664UQRZKAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345337},"content":"In recent days, police officers and government supporters have shared images on social media of potential targets for “Operation Knock Knock”, a strategy of harassing opposition members in their homes with visits from security forces. The military have largely remained in the barracks, leaving the police and intelligence agents to do the dirty work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6EQJHV3RRDCHJ6RBBUN3PGPFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345338},"content":"Gonzalo Himiob, the director of Foro Penal, describes the strategy as a policy of indiscriminate repression intended to “neutralise those whom the government interprets as leading the protests, while intimidating the population”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KUAMAUGKQZHE3RF2OAWSAETZ44","additional_properties":{"_id":"FMXNFSC2IBBKTOIHSSEKE4EH2Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"STE357DXVJFRHANIHLRHDCSGPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345339},"content":"So far, the international response to the election and the repression that has followed it has been muted. The US, joined by the EU and many Latin American governments, have not recognised Maduro’s re-election and have asked for proof of his victory. But no deadline has been set for Caracas to produce the voting tallies and there is no word on what will happen if it does not.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUR5BSIGXFC4LEHTSXG2NS5BKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345340},"content":"Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, has said there is “overwhelming evidence” that González won the election and has congratulated him. But US officials were swift to emphasise that they were not going to recognise González as president-elect at this point or impose fresh sanctions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65EFWCNTKFHL7JDKXRTSHMRDWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345341},"content":"US and European policymakers, diplomats say, feel constrained by past failures on Venezuela. A Trump-era policy of “maximum-pressure” economic sanctions failed to dislodge Maduro and aggravated an already deep economic crisis, while a US-led effort in 2019 to recognise Guaidó, then the leader of the national assembly, as Venezuela’s rightful president also flopped.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7DLUAUAR5FNFNW3ZBYUBZMNW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345342},"content":"Now critics have asked whether the Biden administration’s efforts at negotiating with Maduro have also failed. Secret talks in Qatar led to an agreement in September 2023 that sanctions would be lifted if Maduro allowed a free and fair election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKAU6JQK7BC73IVF5J2FVR7BME","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345343},"content":"The US lifted most economic sanctions the following month but reimposed some of them six months later, accusing the Maduro government of not fully complying with the agreement because it had banned some candidates and harassed the opposition campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNGE3IV2DVHGJESZWPGK3U3FZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345344},"content":"The senior US official says the Biden administration is committed to “reassessing and calibrating” its sanctions policy for Venezuela, adding that “the actions and non-actions that the Venezuelans maintain with respect to the election will certainly influence our thinking”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2CXQSV7IBG6LCCALHZ5BSXIX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345345},"content":"“We deeply believe that the vote of the Venezuelan people should be respected,” he says. “We know that many of our allies ... agree with us on this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YRCBBBFX5JCKXA2VLPRHCII2YA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345346},"content":"For now at least, the US has ruled out cancelling the concession Maduro values most: individual licences granted to western oil and gas companies allowing them to pump oil from Venezuela for export. These have helped production to recover from a trough in 2020 to reach around 852,000 barrels per day in July, according to secondary sources cited in the monthly Opec report.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIGIIL35LFFXVOZIJYNUENQKSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345347},"content":"“One of the revelations from all this is the confirmation, once again, that the international community either doesn’t function or doesn’t exist,” says Moisés Naím, a Venezuelan writer and columnist who lives in Washington. He cites the discussion at the Organisation of American States on July 31st, when the body supposed to uphold democratic standards across the Americas was unable to agree a resolution calling on Venezuela to publish full election results “immediately” because Colombia and Brazil abstained while Mexico was absent from the vote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNHRF636FNELZK3D6AHPAVJPXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345348},"content":"Brazil has led this troika of left-leaning Latin American powers in attempting to mediate between Maduro and the opposition but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva raised eyebrows when he said it was “normal” for two sides in an election to disagree about the result and proposed that the courts decide, even though the justice system in Venezuela is under Maduro’s control.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZBMA2V6KDVEKTMCFI4WPWMMLMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345349},"content":"Some analysts believe that the strength of the opposition campaign, the weak vote for the government and the vehemence of the protests show how much support for the Maduro regime has crumbled across social classes of late, forcing it for the first time to blatantly rig an election result.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RXZ3ZOJY4NC7JEWWIHU6OH43SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345350},"content":"“There’s more of a sense of a sinking ship,” says Michael Shifter, former president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington. “Maduro doesn’t look like a guy who is celebrating victory. 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The president is not due to be sworn in for his third term until January, allowing time for negotiations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVAL7KUUABC6TM3MZVFOTLN6PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345353},"content":"A defiant Machado told Mexican journalists that Maduro’s regime has “absolutely zero legitimacy, all it has left is force and that’s where they are hunkered down now. We must keep our civic movement going peacefully.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LB53AT2ONVBSVPBA3JECHRZDPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723810345356},"content":"She added: “How long will this last? 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The raid on their home on May 16th was triggered by a line Amira reportedly added to her Facebook profile bio on February 24th: “Pursue your passion & you’ll end up enjoying life ... From the RIVER to the SEA, PALASTINE [sic] will be FREE!!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRXRTUS27ZE47GRQHDIPFQKOGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753403},"content":"In Germany, as elsewhere since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7th, that decades-old expression has found new life, popularity – and notoriety.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPQEG3HSOFHIJME3WWWYUURIYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723812753404},"content":"Palestinians and their allies say the slogan is a call for peace and equality after decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. 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From March to June, at least 1,379 people were killed or injured because of gang violence throughout the country, a 45 per cent drop compared with the previous four months, according to the United Nations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQ5SHJT6ZBGNRFD2YFNC5XAOVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010655},"content":"“It’s much quieter in central Port-au-Prince,” said William O’Neill, the UN-appointed human rights expert for Haiti.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZ7WDZGILZGALH3M42SC7AL4D4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010656},"content":"With Kenyan officers providing support, Haitian police have entered parts of the capital they had abandoned, said Diego Da Rin, who monitors Haiti for the International Crisis Group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHYCRM7L5VBDZIYNIWJ33BG3LU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010657},"content":"But large parts of Port-au-Prince, including downtown, are still no-go zones where residents fear to tread and businesses are boarded up. When Conille, a TV news crew and a heavy police escort went last month to Port-au-Prince’s main public hospital, which has been abandoned because of gang violence, they came under fire and had to make a speedy getaway.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5COFIMXNGVHGVD6M6LGSESAGPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010658},"content":"“The government needs to act quickly to reassure the public,” O’Neill said. “People want to see results more quickly.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6KSFNEBEJFLPD4Q47P3PRSSJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010659},"content":"As part of his first moves, Conille fired Haiti’s police chief and several top commanders, promising bold action to regain control of “all areas controlled by gangs, house by house, district by district and city by city”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CA7ZIWKJIRCEZF74LBMBYGV4T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010660},"content":"But many Haitians remain unconvinced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q2V52FFD2JGF3KB3VP75BTM3ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010661},"content":"“There are a lot of promises being made but no positive signs of change yet,” said Kesner Pharel, a leading Haitian economist. “The capital is still cut off from the rest of the country by the gangs. They control the roads, and they are still taking territory.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"U47DLT45WJDD3ERSTN4XKBD2IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010662},"content":"Conille acknowledged in a recent interview with the BBC that Haiti’s police were “undermanned” and that international support was arriving too slowly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKTLZBZMKBFXDMG56DLU6WDSYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010663},"content":"The United Nations says that over the past year, at least 578,000 people have been displaced by violence, with roughly five million people, nearly half the population, lacking enough food to meet their daily dietary needs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKDNFZ7HNBFDTFNUKHWVNLS6OQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010665},"content":"More than a quarter of the schools in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area cannot operate because of the insecurity, according to a recent Unicef report.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O4FYZBJUXNBG5GGPDERWRRDDDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010666},"content":"The healthcare situation in the capital also remains dire, with most hospitals closed after being looted by gangs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HP63BHRXWVBINK673KLDUAEGTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010667},"content":"“It’s a catastrophe,” said Dr Ronald LaRoche, who runs the Jude-Anne Hospital, part of a private health network. “I haven’t even been able to visit our buildings to evaluate the damage. The government surely has good intentions, but they have no power to take on the job.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FF5PLM35ZFALOJNZQXB73PVEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010668},"content":"Benoit Vasseur leads a Médecins Sans Frontières team in Haiti with several mobile clinics that often operate in gang-controlled areas. “We see some improvement in security, but it changes from day to day,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E7F3OCCPEZGPVHOHB3OBHX4ULU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010669},"content":"As pressure mounts on the government to take on the gangs, Vasseur said his medical teams were bracing for even worse mayhem. “We fear we’ll see more patients,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3K5SK3OXNBVROL3IKNKPBWXDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010670},"content":"The new Haitian police chief, Rameau Normil, said in a statement that recent operations had killed 104 “bandits”, a word used to describe gang members.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFMJ2BLU2NFTFFQX5XF3UB7N4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010671},"content":"While the Kenyan reinforcements are welcome, they still number well below the 2,500 personnel that were expected to make up the international contingent. At least six other countries have committed to providing more security forces.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CD2XUXDLHBG3TAGMCF3QL7OVBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010672},"content":"US diplomats say the force’s final size is still unclear because of limited resources on the ground in Haiti, including housing at the Port-au-Prince airport.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IWCLMMT42NDNHPM3P73X4T7UQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010673},"content":"But the biggest problem is funding.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPMDK3MI6RDRJHFNGEUOKOYPCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010674},"content":"“We urge countries to dig much more deeply than they have,” Brian A Nichols, the US assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, told reporters recently.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MK5FJL56ANA23LV5PXKNTG6AMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010675},"content":"The United States has already pledged $360 million (€330 million) of the estimated $600 million annual cost of the deployment, but UN authorisation for the mission expires in October, and the US will need to secure Chinese and Russian support to extend it another year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCDN2TS26VG47D23V7625PT3RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010676},"content":"The Kenyan force is equipped with armoured vehicles but has no air or sea assets, limiting its ability to respond to gang attacks, experts said, adding that the 400 officers already in Haiti need significant beefing up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PWX6F4ZXZRFG3NW7KBIGXX2VMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010678},"content":"“It’s a small force under any account of what is needed,” said Keith Mines, the vice-president of the Latin America programme at the United States Institute of Peace, who follows Haiti closely.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUDKN5FOO5CIPPMJYCJGOFTFMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723459010679},"content":"“It’s a restraint on what they can do,” he added. “We just have to accept that’s what’s there.” – This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/world/americas/haiti-gangs-kenya-police.html\">The New York Times</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"David C Adams in Miami and Andre Paultre in Port-au-Prince"}]},"description":{"basic":"Country’s tricky transition back to democratic rule undermined by powerful gangs and lack of personnel and funding"},"display_date":"2024-08-12T17:13:58.641Z","headlines":{"basic":"Sidestepping deployed Kenyan forces, Haiti gangs continue reign of terror","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"5WEP3IQOTZBCBFK2BDIC4GO7YE","auth":{"1":"600e4877714be2bd2db356b28103c45812792dea6d72b0b9671dd9fda8f4c064"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/5WEP3IQOTZBCBFK2BDIC4GO7YE.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2024/08/12/sidestepping-deployed-kenyan-forces-haiti-gangs-continue-reign-of-terror/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"JEFRGZFVKJBR3N2YH6RLEWJXKY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":221,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/f9bc31c7-ea59-401d-8052-f0fb907b48c7/versions/1723280580/media/e1388da9ba12af2887d23a066028123f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/americas/2024/08/10/brazilian-authorities-investigate-cause-of-plane-crash-that-killed-all-61-on-board/","content_elements":[{"_id":"E3SDZQPLSFGJHN73ESSNIQQOJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723299476740},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/brazil/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian</a> civil defence teams worked through the night removing the remains of passengers on a plane that crashed on Friday near Sao Paulo, killing all 62 people on board.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X7HDJ26OV5HANDVQHTBOLGTHUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1723299476741},"content":"At least 21 bodies had been recovered by Saturday morning, Sao Paulo state government said, with two victims identified on site. 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Every day that month, thousands of migrants were sneaking across the frontier, overwhelming border officials and forcing the closure of legal crossing points. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/republican-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans </a>were weaponising the crisis and US president<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\" target=\"_blank\"> Joe Biden</a> needed a quick solution.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TVQIKXEVNBRXEFHQHLKQ4CBFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076476},"content":"Biden called the one person who could help him quickly, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and demanded action, dispatching a team headed by secretary of state <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/antony-blinken/\" target=\"_blank\">Antony Blinken</a> to Mexico City.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5R25FCNA5GI7GMTRQXETQYV3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076477},"content":"López Obrador’s government quickly restarted deporting and busing thousands of migrants from northern Mexico to the south, measures it had previously halted for lack of money. Unauthorised border crossings fell sharply in the following months from December’s record level of more than 300,000 and last week Biden was able to boast that they were now lower than when<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\"> Donald Trump</a> left office, although this claim has been disputed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ML6OIJVZSVGRFBKLVY5C546ITA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076478},"content":"The episode showed how heavily the administration has depended on López Obrador for help with stemming migration, an issue on which Republicans have constantly attacked Biden and vice-president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris</a>, the presumptive <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-unionist-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic </a>nominee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BESHRGXZX5FPFKQ3G62QH7RJA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076479},"content":"The Mexican leader, a canny and experienced politician, has in turn maximised his leverage over the Democratic administration to push through left-wing nationalist reforms that opponents say have weakened democracy, allowed organised crime to expand, crimped economic growth and prejudiced foreign investment – all without criticism from Washington.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RG7LUSIDTBDYRDJ7URRUDLXPHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076480},"content":"López Obrador “understood very clearly that if he did as much of the dirty work on immigration for the US as he could ... he would get from the Americans basically an attitude of leaving him alone,” says Jorge Castañeda, a former Mexican minister for foreign affairs and expert on US-Mexico relations. “He could pretty much get away with whatever he wanted.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W7DQ64YDHNB4XNDFE4MYUVW6BY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076481},"content":"This raises questions about the nature of the tacit bargain between the two presidents and about whether it will survive after their respective terms end. López Obrador will be <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/americas/2024/06/03/mexico-elects-countrys-first-woman-president-as-claudia-sheinbaum-secures-landslide-victory/\" target=\"_blank\">succeeded in October by Claudia Scheinbaum</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JILD3S7T7JB63OPUQKE4DCFZWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076482},"content":"“The US has given up a lot and has worked against its own interests,” says Duncan Wood, president of the Pacific Council on International Policy and former head of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJDTUG6IHBCDXNY7H4FYE2M4PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076483},"content":"The US relationship with its southern neighbour is closer than almost any other. Over more than 200 years, the two nations have evolved from fighting wars with each other to knitting a close web of trading, investment and cultural links.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2S6SWEFIZHQXOJSHDG7AUPI6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076484},"content":"Mexico is the US’s biggest trading partner and the US is the largest foreign investor in Mexico. More than 37 million people of Mexican descent live in the US, an estimated 1.6 million Americans dwell in Mexico and the US embassy in Mexico City is among Washington’s biggest missions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZDYLSRXIJA3NCOS37F2JKFJYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076485},"content":"At the start of his term in 2018, López Obrador, a charismatic populist, established a surprisingly good relationship with Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGE6P437KRF4LBE4DLS3PWZAKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076486},"content":"When campaigning for the White House, Trump had called Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers, and as president vowed to impose tariffs if Mexico did not stem migration, but the two men quickly made a deal. Trump needed illegal migration cut, while López Obrador wanted the economic benefits from the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA).","type":"text"},{"_id":"GB4VI6F2NNB25MPVHMLPMOM55E","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076487},"content":"Some Democrats in Washington and the opposition in Mexico City had hoped that the Biden administration would break with Trump’s transactional approach towards Mexico, stand up for democracy and human rights and ease harsh migration rules.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3NWMJXCU5DWZBV2DKH4C7YWQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076489},"content":"The Biden administration initially eased some of the most draconian Trump-era restrictions on migrants. But it soon became clear that, as US voters grew more concerned about illegal migration, foreign policy principles would again take a back seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEG7VTIKQBHXRA7MHGHTX2EL4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076490},"content":"“There was always going to be a desire to be pragmatic about the relationship,” says Ricardo Zúniga, who served in Biden’s Latin America team as principal deputy assistant secretary of state. “The Biden team ... understood they needed Mexico’s help on migration. There wasn’t a sense of coming in to try to lecture or ... totally reset a relationship where López Obrador was understood to be quite powerful domestically”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2IDB7BHWJFPLMR2CWFZRJ6QLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076491},"content":"López Obrador had a reputation as a prickly nationalist, with an instinctive anti-Americanism that is common on the Latin American left. To deal with him, Biden picked an old friend and former Senate colleague, Ken Salazar, as ambassador to Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSDJHY4BHZA7ZZDKBATTQ2JLQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"B7FZ2B65XJEFPDPTYJGJSMVVMI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5KNIQBJY5RHTXJQ7HW5PMNT434","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076492},"content":"He also tasked Harris to deal with the root causes of migration to the US by working with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, three Central American nations that were historically sources of many of the migrants, to improve their economies, tackle crime and reduce violence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GN273F3RS5BE7ML3GRQF7LJX5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076493},"content":"Salazar arrived in Mexico City with a clear objective. “His instruction from Biden was to get up close and friendly with Amlo,” another ambassador in Mexico says, referring to the Mexican leader by his initials. “The Americans were almost intimidated by Amlo.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVGQWSMPTRBHTGJZQZEO2LSXC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076494},"content":"Salazar quickly established a close rapport with López Obrador – so close that it disturbed some senior diplomats at the US embassy, who felt he went too far to please his hosts. “He handles the bilateral relationship himself and has been very effective in sidelining the entire state department,” says one US diplomat, speaking off the record. “He is always reminding people he is a personal friend of Biden’s. But Mexican officials call him a ‘useful idiot’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FXUUXLMJAVAONMF62WK2FXL7TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076495},"content":"A US state department official says that “ambassador [Ken] Salazar and his team in Mission Mexico work side by side with our department of state colleagues in Washington and our Mexican partners to advance US interests”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOZZKXUE25HSXG42MPH4WYTHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076496},"content":"For his part, López Obrador has been quick to understand how to use the leverage that migration has given him over the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2C3DKAB7ZRHZVJIPB6T4FH7FFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076497},"content":"“You had someone who was the ultimate politician,” says Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. “He is an incredibly skilled negotiator and it came naturally to him to find the trade-offs he wants”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPDIQGQ2KBGRHPRJ6LGQZU4BTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076498},"content":"When Biden entered office in January 2021, he immediately faced a diplomatic dilemma on Mexico involving a former minister for defence and top military commander accused of drug trafficking. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials had arrested general Salvador Cienfuegos in October as he travelled through Los Angeles airport with his family for a holiday, accusing him of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines and laundering the proceeds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPYRGSYHNFEXFP35CBDZKI4X2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076499},"content":"Despite the general’s seniority – he had been minister for defence for six years until 2018 – López Obrador initially appeared to accept his guilt. But, under pressure from Mexico’s military, he quickly switched to suggesting that the charges were false and demanding Cienfuegos’s release.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6INLHISKKRHR5JTV63R54IX7U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076500},"content":"He threatened to expel all DEA agents from Mexico and to end co-operation on fighting the drug trade, a crucial area of concern for the US because of the flood of illegal cocaine and fentanyl across the border.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3SUJ3DHRNFV3IYGOOKQIJE7EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076501},"content":"Two weeks later, the Trump administration capitulated. Cienfuegos was released and sent back to Mexico on the understanding that charges would be pursued there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMUHZYMWNFCRHBSANZFSYFVHJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076502},"content":"But days before Biden took office, Mexican prosecutors announced they had no grounds to charge Cienfuegos. López Obrador then ordered the release of the hundreds of pages of confidential evidence which the US had shared with Mexico, and denounced the case as fabricated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RFTZBU7E4BO2N56DCZPSUHZKY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GXA7T64BXZCATODE6UZJG6ZELE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5NRLZQQYYFEMPNNYM7N2LG5KYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076503},"content":"A US department of justice spokesperson said at the time it was “deeply disappointed” by the case’s closure. Last year López Obrador decorated the general for his service. “Neither Trump nor Biden was going to do anything to [López Obrador] that he would get upset about, if it meant the threat of limited co-operation on migration,” says Castañeda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDSP6SCWWBDHNII7L2DQUTKTDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076504},"content":"López Obrador has relied increasingly on the military to execute his top priority projects. The armed forces were put in charge of everything from big construction projects to a new federal police force, violating a constitutional rule that police should be under civilian command. During his term, López Obrador has also given them control of airports, ports, the customs service and even an airline.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3D75Y7BG3JFWDPOC4IW3Q44RMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076506},"content":"But while the US criticised authoritarianism in other countries in the region such as El Salvador and sent strong messages to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/brazil/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil’s</a> military about the need to respect the constitution under the presidency of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jair-bolsonaro/\" target=\"_blank\">Jair Bolsonaro</a>, there has been no similar effort in Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5B77PIFJSFECXOPSZMWIXLP27E","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076507},"content":"The Biden administration also failed to speak out against López Obrador’s attacks on key democratic institutions in Mexico, such as the supreme court, when it came under siege from government supporters last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJXRKQPXC5H73JBYPHGFFVZRNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076508},"content":"López Obrador had vilified the institution constantly in his daily news conferences after it ruled against some of his most cherished initiatives. Pro-government demonstrators set up an encampment outside the court building in the centre of Mexico City last summer, plastering it with slogans such as “Corrupt traitor justices, you are fired”. Norma Piña, the court’s president, was portrayed on a large poster stuck to the building’s walls as a “narco-pig” and protesters burnt her effigy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDP5VTGQJ5D4LDCUPFCTCW3KOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076509},"content":"When the Bolsonaro government in Brazil attacked the supreme court, cozied up to the military and questioned the electoral system, the Biden administration responded with a strong and co-ordinated effort to shore up Brazilian democracy, yet in Mexico, attacks by pro-government demonstrators on a key democratic institution did not prompt the same reaction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZNSQY4BQZHMTD7JDZL35LODMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076510},"content":"“There was concern,” says the Pacific Council’s Wood, “but they felt they were held hostage by migration ... They could have been tougher.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBE6IUPXPVFCZB43U6ZVA54HZI","additional_properties":{"_id":"BLIODX4LQ5AT3H27A5RX6HGD64"},"content":"Biden imposes sweeping measures to bar migrants from asylum at Mexico border","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"EXY243LYSFF3JPUJPDOG6DGBN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076511},"content":"The state department official says the US co-ordinates closely with Mexico “on a wide range of important issues ... even as we make clear the need for strong democratic institutions”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLOQXHXBA5DBXPOOUYFNCTP5PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076512},"content":"Now in the final months of his tenure, López Obrador has proposed to replace the supreme court with popularly elected judges – a move non-governmental organisations say would risk turning it into an appendage of the ruling party. Salazar, the ambassador, has said a strong justice system is important but that it is up to Mexicans to decide any changes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QHU426UDZHGLPAJH5ME4PBG5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076513},"content":"“They depend on us over fentanyl and migration,” says one minister in López Obrador’s cabinet. “This government is more assertive in its relationship with the US government. It drives hard bargains.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"1d337356-2dd9-444f-8398-b9a8d392d72f","additional_properties":{"_id":"P7VGQB2H6BCZTGOTWXBL6SYB5Q"},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"CZPVL7URP5HD7MQUPLTC6PLVTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076514},"content":"Buoyed by the Biden administration’s reticence, López Obrador has felt strong enough to pursue a foreign policy that at times ran counter to US interests. After <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia </a>invaded <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine</a>, he invited Moscow’s troops to parade at Mexico’s Independence Day celebration and described US military aid to Ukraine as “irrational”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNYS2ZGMLFAN7HLKX3EPVUJJEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076515},"content":"He sent free oil to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cuba/\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba </a>and invited <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/venezuela/\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela’s</a> authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, who has a $15 million (€13.7 million) price on his head in the US for alleged drug trafficking, to a regional summit in Mexico City.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G22NM7W4CFAMLBOZYDCGR2GFVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076516},"content":"Most strikingly, he snubbed Biden when the US president hosted the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June 2022, an absence which emboldened several other Latin American leaders to skip the event. Yet the following month Biden invited him to the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DME3KM4RZ5CS3NITG72AHSOXPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076517},"content":"US businesses have struggled with López Obrador’s nationalist and statist policies. The Mexican leader squeezed private investment in the energy sector, reversing a gradual opening under his predecessor. Other measures included banning the import of genetically modified corn from the US and cancelling a permit for a half-built US brewery in northern Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NEV3RPHLNBS5NGQZCIWPE54TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076518},"content":"Even though the energy policy appeared to violate the USMCA, the US did not pursue the dispute procedure designed to deal with such cases. More than three years after López Obrador legislated to increase state control over electricity generation, Washington has not convened a dispute resolution panel. Salazar says he had spent hours in meetings between US energy companies and López Obrador and that several companies had moved forward with large investments as a result.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4QMHT5ETZGYLBENBTEKDCBJDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076519},"content":"Another headache for businesses has been the explosion of organised crime under López Obrador’s “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding open conflict with drug cartels. “Security has grown exponentially as a topic for companies,” says one business lobby head in Mexico. “Big US corporations didn’t use to have a problem ... but not any longer.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWFD3REK4RBEJDPHMYQKOJP4XU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076520},"content":"Migration is likely to remain a big and divisive issue in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-election/\" target=\"_blank\">US November election</a>, even after Biden’s withdrawal. Trump lost no time in attacking Harris on her record, saying last week that “as border tsar, Kamala threw open our borders and allowed 20 million illegal aliens to stampede into our country ... Kamala, you’ve done a terrible job”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLD7DZFCSVDWXIKBK6IGHHVTHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076521},"content":"Harris aides have pointed out that the vice-president was never a “border tsar” and was instead tasked with tackling the root causes of migration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X7WTDGCCI2LLEGBUIKFGIMOYTA","additional_properties":{"_id":"FO4MZWYS5ZBJVKT4MMCCCHRJS4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"IVQ4SCIFWNA4LDMQIY26ME5HQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076522},"content":"This strategy foundered when political repression and economic crisis in Venezuela and Cuba triggered a big exodus from those nations. Security crises in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ecuador/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuador </a>and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/haiti/\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti </a>added more migrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HAY3NSF75BSPGIHDBRXZHQ3QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076523},"content":"Harris has said little about migration since Biden withdrew from the presidential race but her record as one of 10 senators who voted against the USMCA is likely to worry Mexico more than her views on migration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E65WN7REMRBR7OKO5C6AJ33R4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076524},"content":"Scheinbaum, López Obrador’s handpicked successor, won a landslide victory in June elections and their Morena party has enough votes in congress to rewrite the constitution – something the Mexican president intends to do before leaving office. Using the justification of rooting out corruption, the measures he has discussed include sweeping changes to the courts and the electoral system and dismantling independent regulators.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z3G63M6DXBBFPNXQ77ESVIJ4GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076525},"content":"“Washington needs to pay serious and undivided attention to the potential reforms that López Obrador and Morena will seek to ram through in September,” says Arturo Sarukhán, a former Mexican ambassador to the US. “If Mexico morphs into an illiberal democracy on its doorstep, there will be three winners: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\" target=\"_blank\">China</a>, Russia and Cuba.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVASIDZU4NGJXD3LBT6RQUE4LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076526},"content":"Civil society groups, opposition politicians and Mexico experts bemoan the erosion of the country’s democratic institutions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGJFEFAUJBEHFIUL3AMOWUBBNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076527},"content":"“López Obrador ran rings around us on trade, foreign policy, Venezuela, migration and counter-narcotics co-operation,” rues a former US state department official, who asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity of the topic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBJCCM2NHJBPHJU7ZRHPAGPJRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076529},"content":"“While every nation prioritises its national interests, given that Mexico is our biggest trading partner and impacts the United States in so many ways, our failure to develop much beyond the transactional relationship we had under Trump is noteworthy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VP547BZZWZA7TH3ILUGRRP2WF4","additional_properties":{"_id":"GNZBE6MXIVDTXDXZ73V2NV2VEA"},"content":"How Mexico’s president won over the working class","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"THDBY3CKJVHYJI3FD44KKDW3KQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076530},"content":"Castañeda traces what he calls a US indifference to Mexico’s domestic politics back to the chaos in the 1920s following the Mexican revolution and “this sort of Faustian pact that the Americans wrote subconsciously with the Mexicans”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYTYGFYII5EJFEGJZILSOMKM74","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076531},"content":"“As long as the place is stable, as long as core American interests are not threatened, meaning property and people, let the Mexicans govern themselves any goddamn way they want.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2APWBVCQ5DWVM324W4PWXO23M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076532},"content":"But some Mexican civil society leaders feel let down by the Biden and Trump administrations’ failure to defend democracy more robustly. “There’s been very little, a very timid expression of concern on topics which are basic for a trade partner such as Mexico in terms of defending human rights and freedoms,” says Lorenzo Córdova, former president of the independent electoral institute INE.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYUSOJBEAVCYDAA4NM26VXUVQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1722526076533},"content":"“If you undermine the rule of law in Mexico, this will create a problem which affects US interests. 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But Washington’s leverage over Caracas is limited and the last time it recognised an opposition leader as Venezuela’s legitimate president, Juan Guaidó in 2019, its policy ended in failure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OP6ZKS3AQFHPLPGLL4VWE426GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722613710370},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\" target=\"_blank\">US </a>move comes after Caracas expelled ambassadors from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic over their governments questioning Maduro’s victory. This, allied to the expressions of support Caracas has received from the dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua and a smattering of leftist governments such as those in Bolivia and Honduras, has further complicated efforts to come up with a regional response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UHJLMOPI7FESFLNR32GEEAQORA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722613710371},"content":"This is now being led by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/brazil/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil </a>and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/colombia/\" target=\"_blank\">Colombia</a>, respectively Latin America’s most powerful state and the one hosting the most Venezuelan refugees, and both run by left-wing presidents who have in the past sought to keep open lines of communication with Maduro.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K7MHBF7L25EQ3L6ZSROK4GV6JA","additional_properties":{"_id":1722613710372},"content":"But the effort so far is ad hoc as regional bodies are largely moribund. Unasur, the Union of South American Nations which was created to deepen regional integration, is all but defunct. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mercosur/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercosur</a>, Latin America’s largest trade bloc that Venezuela once flirted with joining, is currently paralysed by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/argentina/\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina’s</a> de facto boycott of the group since the election of radical libertarian Javier Milei as president last year. 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On Thursday a joint statement released by Brazil, Colombia and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico </a>once again called for the release of a detailed breakdown of the election results as demanded by the opposition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KJ6FU6KYMFGHDDMZ6OJCN6ESF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722613710374},"content":"The dilemma for Lula and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro is that they have not signalled what they might do should Maduro fail to comply. With Venezuela’s economy already devastated and regionally isolated except from its criminal networks, there are few means to pressure a dictatorial regime that is once again ramping up domestic repression to see off another effort to remove it from power. As the opposition called for more protests on Saturday, Maduro said authorities had already arrested 1,200 people and vowed “we will arrest 1,000 more”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEKXPFFIHBFW7BI4GZVXSHVNHA","additional_properties":{"_id":"VIO7WHVB3FD6DI6HUXIXO5GQHA"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-19114","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"576PXK7NYNAUPKNYYWJDZZBJSQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Tom Hennigan"}},"name":"Tom Hennigan"}]},"description":{"basic":"There are few means to pressure Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorial regime that is once again ramping up domestic repression"},"display_date":"2024-08-02T16:35:24.457Z","headlines":{"basic":"Venezuela’s neighbours struggle to respond to crisis following disputed election","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"BRXX2H4SZ6CNCUK4GDW435LRIY","auth":{"1":"87d58f5635f9881918916999d83a6ef59e9d792dded797834ac8b354794ef7d8"},"focal_point":{"x":3200,"y":2662},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BRXX2H4SZ6CNCUK4GDW435LRIY.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2024/08/02/venezuelas-neighbours-struggle-to-respond-to-crisis-following-disputed-election/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"LYRA6CRS3RBAZODHFALLD27W7E","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":200,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/3de79173-1346-4ceb-9aff-1e9f95fb9dca/versions/1722491266/media/e905aa193af02f4741db2f61c8d4ffa2_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/americas/2024/08/01/us-says-maduro-lost-venezuela-vote-as-he-seeks-to-jail-rivals/","content_elements":[{"_id":"DIX2C3RQMFFOTAK7IZJR2PYUI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722490466348},"content":"The United States said the world should acknowledge <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/venezuela\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela</a>’s opposition won last weekend’s election, as President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nicolás-maduro\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolás Maduro</a> doubled down on his claims of victory and called for his opponents to be jailed for decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MI5EUSOM4ZCFDNWQF3JCQ4JJEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1722490466349},"content":"“Everyone can see – it is clear that Edmundo González Urrutia defeated Nicolas Maduro by millions of votes,” Brian Nichols, the top US diplomat for western hemisphere affairs, told a meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington. 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Why don’t you show your face, after so much outrage and violence?” Mr Maduro said, building on top lawmaker Jorge Rodríguez’s call for her arrest on Tuesday following demonstrations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHWXXIEDBRGTLBMG2FYAHDPQO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722490466352},"content":"Ms Machado later responded to the comments by Mr Nichols, saying it was a “very important” confirmation of Mr Gonzalez’s victory and backed his call for greater transparency in the vote tabulation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJM6G32COFFVJL4OE3LW223NBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722490466353},"content":"The opposition leaders say they have overwhelming proof that Mr González is the rightful election winner, citing evidence from more than 80 per cent of the country’s polling stations. 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But the Venezuelan strongman insulted him during the closing stretch of the campaign after Lula criticised <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/americas/2024/07/26/fears-and-hope-before-venezuelan-election-that-could-bring-rebuilding-or-a-bloodbath/\" target=\"_blank\">his threats of a bloodbath if he lost</a>, emphasising the likely limits to regional pressure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TVPJINJWGREZZJFBPCCEQHWZL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514259},"content":"Domestically Maduro has shown he is more than willing to face down protests and has a state apparatus to do so. Dozens of protesters have been killed in previous rounds of street demonstrations and government death squads have killed thousands more in what a United Nations report said was a regime-orchestrated campaign to suppress dissent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZQRYQ3DJYBBBTDAR3GGTZIDKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514260},"content":"The election campaign showed a surprising level of public enthusiasm for the opposition after years of apathy following previous defeats imposed on it by the regime. But whether sufficient numbers of people will be willing to risk confrontation with the state’s security forces to have their votes respected will be seen in the coming days, should opposition leaders call for protests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LB36NO2KORHJTFSKMYIJCTOC4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514261},"content":"Maduro will also be confident the military leadership will remain loyal, as it has during past attempts to force him from power. 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About half of the country’s 300 or so political prisoners are members of the armed forces and some in the high command must worry about how state repression and the economic collapse that have sent more than 7.7 million Venezuelans fleeing abroad have also impacted on military families as well as the military’s own capabilities and prospects for maintaining them in the future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QS3MYPXDYRANDKM45LAHHESBUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722274514263},"content":"These could dim further if the United States responds to Sunday’s apparent fraud by swiftly reimposing sanctions it partially lifted after Maduro signed up to “free and fair” elections in the Barbados Accord last year. 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The involvement of military commanders in the widespread criminality, including drug-trafficking by the Cartel of the Suns network of military officers, means that as in the past Maduro would be confident of relying on the army should he decide to face down demands he quit. 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