What's the common thread between #Mexico's lack of capacity to ensure its international commitments on refugee and asylum policy and properly handle Central American transmigration, the recent US ban on shrimp exports from Mexico and today's FAA downgrading of Mexico's air ...1/4
..safety rating to Category 2? Besides how all these issues intersect with the #Mexico-US bilateral agenda, what connects them together is the canibalization and budgetary cuts that are eviscerating government agencies and bureaucratic capabilities and eroding the capacity ...2/4
..of Mexican State institutions. During his more than two years in office, President Lopez Obrador has sought to prune and purge the bureaucracy and weaken #Mexico’s institutions so that they cannot constrain him. But that also means he cannot rely on them, for example, to ...3/4
..prevent these costly policy outcomes, or generate growth, mitigate the impact of the pandemic, resolve social conflicts, tackle insecurity, take advantage of #Mexico’s geostrategic assets, or even facilitate the transition to the next Mexican administration. 4/4
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