Mexican president caught between Trump and her party


Sheinbaum has sought to mollify Trump by sending 10,000 National Guard troops to the border to deter migrants and drug traffickers © Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images

Antonio Ortiz-Mena points out that the central issue behind the White House’s pressure on the Mexican government lies in the relationship between certain levels of political power and transnational crime, as well as in the growing difficulty in distinguishing where one ends and the other begins.