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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/despite-talk-of-historic-cooperation-the-divide-between-mexico-city-amp-dc-is-deepening</loc>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Despite talk of historic cooperation, the divide between Mexico City &amp;amp; DC is deepening - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum meets with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and their respective delegations in Mexico City earlier this year. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Sheinbaum at one year: A ‘complex’ operator emerges - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum at an event in Jalisco this week. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/is-mexicos-water-agenda-aiming-too-high</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An aerial view of the Xochimilco canal system. Image credit: Amazing Ariel / Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Sheinbaum’s first year has been a contradictory &amp;amp; muddled experiment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Sheinbaum speaking at a rally this week in Morelos. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Trump’s drug war isn’t adding up - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An unclassified still from the US Department of Defense showing a “go-fast” boat allegedly smuggling narcotics in the Caribbean. Image source: UPI/Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexicos-fuel-theft-scandal-is-too-big-for-the-government-to-contain</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Mexico’s fuel theft scandal is too big for the government to contain - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Minister of the Mexico's Navy, Raymundo Morales Angeles; Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and Minister of Mexican National Defense, Ricardo Trevilla Trejo. Image credit: Sipa US/Alamy</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - What place does Claudia Sheinbaum want in Mexico’s history? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum delivering the cry of independence in Mexico City’s Zocalo. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/an-uncomfortable-week-for-mexicos-sovereignty</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Editor’s note: An uncomfortable week for Sheinbaum’s vision of Mexican sovereignty - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum at her morning press conference in Mexico City. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Mexico’s electoral reform will close the door on pluralism - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Opposition PAN coordinator Ricardo Anaya in an exchange with ex-Senate president Gerardo Fernández Noroña. Image credit: Sipa US/Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum attending her first State of the Union address in Mexico City. Image credit: IMAGO/Carlos Santiago/Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/scuffle-in-congress-reflects-mexicos-entrenched-culture-of-political-trolling</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Scuffle in Congress reflects Mexico’s entrenched culture of political trolling - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking during a morning press conference in Mexico City. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/a-new-us-mexico-security-agreement-in-the-making</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - A new US - Mexico security agreement in the making - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A US Department of Homeland Security helicopter, carrying DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, flying over the US-Mexico border. Image credit: American Photo Archive / Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - The problem with Andy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Morena Party secretary Andrés Manuel López Beltràn, son of former president AMLO. Image credit: Cuatroscuro.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/spoiler-alert-this-gets-complicated</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Spoiler alert: this gets complicated - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking a press conference in Mexico City this week. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Unilateral US military intervention in Mexico would bring chaos - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/does-mexico-have-a-bargaining-advantage-over-canada</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Does Mexico have a bargaining advantage over Canada? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum during a press conference this week in Mexico City. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/the-morena-pact</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - The Morena Pact - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum with supporters at a public event. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/how-morena-politicians-hijacked-gender-laws-to-muzzle-press</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - How Morena politicians hijacked gender laws to muzzle the press - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mayor of Acapulco Abelina López at a press conference. Image sourced from Abelina López’s Twitter account (@AbelinaLopezR).</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Sheinbaum’s monologue diplomacy is meeting Washington’s deaf ear - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum at her morning press conference this week in Mexico City. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/the-roots-and-costs-of-mexicos-vast-informal-economy</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - The roots and costs of Mexico’s vast informal economy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A street vendor selling ice cream in Zacatecas, Mexico. Image credit: Prisma/Heeb Christian/Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/theres-a-lot-more-driving-mexico-citys-gentrification-than-bad-gringos</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - There’s a lot more driving Mexico City’s gentrification than bad gringos - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>People sit on a wall in Condesa’s Parque Mexico on the sidelines of July 4th’s anti-gentrification protest. Image credit: Jon Orbach / AP / Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - These are Mexico’s five new public security laws, and this is what they do - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mexico’s Security Secretary, Omar García Harfuch, at a press conference in Mexico City in June 2025. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/sheinbaum-is-facing-trump-without-a-compass</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-11</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/editors-note-rapid-descent-into-total-surveillance</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A National Guard soldier at an event marking the sixth anniversary of the organization’s founding. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico (please note: this image has been cropped from its original version to exclude an eagle which the soldier is holding).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexicos-democratic-transition-turns-25-or-only-7-if-you-ask-morena</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Mexico’s democratic transition turns 25 - or only 7, if you ask Morena… - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Former President López Obrador with Claudia Sheinbaum the night of her election victory. Image credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexico-is-using-the-disappeared-to-build-a-surveillance-state-families-say</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, families say - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Human rights organizations protested the reform to the General Disappearance Law outside the Chamber of Deputies, July 2, 2025</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Textbook populism fueled Mexico’s debt and now it’s near breaking point - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Tren Maya, one of former President López Obrador’s controversial and expensive infrastructure projects. Image credit: Tren Maya / X.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Mexico is paying a high price for its opposition parties’ malaise - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Mexican flag flying over Mexico City’s Zocalo at dusk, with the National Palace in the background. Image credit: William Perry / Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexicos-new-security-laws-expand-military-power-and-erode-civilian-oversight</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - Mexico’s new security laws expand military power and erode civilian oversight - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum addressing Mexico’s National Guard on its sixth anniversary in Mexico City this week. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexico’s Supreme Court, with crosses and floral arrangements reading “Rest in Peace,” placed there by opponents of the judicial reform. Image credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yasmín Esquivel, a candidate for Mexico’s Supreme Court who also currently sits on the Court, campaigning with supporters ahead of Mexico’s first ever nationwide judicial vote. Image credit: Associated Press / Marco Ugarte / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Just a few days after the fire went out, illegal loggers returned to the area to continue cutting down trees. Image credit: Axel Hernández.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Teporingos community brigades used drones to map the area consumed by last week’s fire in Las Palomas, Tlalpan. Image credit: Axel Hernández.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Mexico Brief - Analysis - How illegal logging is fueling CDMX forest fires - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rosa Vázques, the first woman forest-protection brigade leader in San Miguel Topilejo. Image credit: Axel Hernández.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pope Francis blessing an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe during a Mass in Ecatepec, Mexico. Image credit: Gregorio Borgia / Associated Press / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum during her daily press conference in Mexico City on Wednesday. Image credit: Presidency of Mexico.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero speaking at a press conference in Mexico City. Image credit: Office of Mexico’s Presidency.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The exterior of Felipé Angeles International Airport (AIFA) outside of Mexico City. Image credit: Arlette Lopez / Alamy.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-06-25</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>A family member of a victim of disappearance is embraced at a vigil for the country’s 120,000+ missing in 2024. Image credit: ZUMA Press, Inc / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pointing to an image of her younger self protesting former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari at Livermore, CA. Image credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A person holding a candle at a vigil for disappearance victims in Querétaro, Mexico. Image credit: Sipa US / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Imave credit: Abaca Press / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, at a demonstration in February 2025 to commemorate the third anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Image credit: SOPA Images Ltd / Alamy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Newly assembled vehicles are seen at a stockyard of the automobile plant Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico. Image credit: REUTERS/Jorge Duenes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Police guard access to Izaguirre Ranch in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, Mexico, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Image credit: AP Photo/Alfredo Moya/Alamy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking this week in Mexico City. Image credit: Sipa US / Alamy.</image:caption>
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