Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Marcos Falcone
“Earlier this year, left-wing Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hosted a rally in downtown Mexico City to celebrate Donald Trump’s one-month delay in imposing 25% tariffs on her country. To Latin American observers, this was baffling and not just because the victory was meager, but because since when does the left embrace free trade? Yet Sheinbaum’s stance ever since, alongside prior remarks by her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), show that there is a way of committing the Latin American left to free trade: by embracing it in the first place.” (07/10/25)
https://fee.org/articles/how-the-mexican-left-embraced-free-trade/