May 28, 2026 · 34 min · 14 segments
From Mexico’s Cuba ties to Washington's persistent tariff pledges, points of friction keep coming up between Mexico and the United States, reaching a crescendo last month when the U.S. Department of…
Jorge CastañedaGuest
Karen ZissisHost
I don't know what kind of shoes the four CIA agents in Chihuahua were wearing.I don't imagine they were wearing sandals.
So I think what she's doing is now, because she knows that she has given in on everything, she probably wants to stiffen up the rhetoric and the symbolic gestures that play to her base.
The problem with that is that in the modern world, with, uh, social media, with the amount of foreign correspondents that are in Mexico, with the closeness of the two countries, people in the States notice the stuff that she does for her local base.
It's not that you can have two, uh, different, uh, discourses or rhetorics, uh, one for the US and one for Mexico, and the Americans will, the gringos will never find out because they don't read Spanish.
Whatever she says or does, almost immediately there's a response in the US, which can be the executive branch, it can be the Congress, it can be the media, it can be the think tanks, it can be the lobbyist groups, but there's a response every day she says something.
For example, her legal counsel, uh, who is also now kind of a spokesperson for her in her morning press conferences, uh, said two or three days ago, "The problem with security with the United States and, uh, drug trafficking and organized crime is that Americans are all a bunch of drug addicts.
... there's not really much we can do." I don't know, A, if that's necessary, and B, I'm not sure that helps a whole lot.
Have you made this reference to a question we hear over and over, is are we gonna see US military action in Mexico, or as you put it, boots on the ground? And you've referenced the CIA case that we had in Chihuahua, um, where it came to light that there were CIA agents in an operation to bust a drug lab.
Um, and then there has been potential alleged CIA involvement in an action against narcos just outside of Mexico City involving the bombing of a car recently.
I don't know what kind of shoes the four CIA agents in Chihuahua were wearing.I don't imagine they were wearing sandals.
So I think what she's doing is now, because she knows that she has given in on everything, she probably wants to stiffen up the rhetoric and the symbolic gestures that play to her base.
The problem with that is that in the modern world, with, uh, social media, with the amount of foreign correspondents that are in Mexico, with the closeness of the two countries, people in the States notice the stuff that she does for her local base.
It's not that you can have two, uh, different, uh, discourses or rhetorics, uh, one for the US and one for Mexico, and the Americans will, the gringos will never find out because they don't read Spanish.
Whatever she says or does, almost immediately there's a response in the US, which can be the executive branch, it can be the Congress, it can be the media, it can be the think tanks, it can be the lobbyist groups, but there's a response every day she says something.
For example, her legal counsel, uh, who is also now kind of a spokesperson for her in her morning press conferences, uh, said two or three days ago, "The problem with security with the United States and, uh, drug trafficking and organized crime is that Americans are all a bunch of drug addicts.
... there's not really much we can do." I don't know, A, if that's necessary, and B, I'm not sure that helps a whole lot.
Have you made this reference to a question we hear over and over, is are we gonna see US military action in Mexico, or as you put it, boots on the ground? And you've referenced the CIA case that we had in Chihuahua, um, where it came to light that there were CIA agents in an operation to bust a drug lab.
Um, and then there has been potential alleged CIA involvement in an action against narcos just outside of Mexico City involving the bombing of a car recently.
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