Mexico has tweaked its constitution to seal in fire a cause that allows the annulment of elections: foreign interference. The ruling majority—Morena and its allies—in both chambers approved this Friday by fast-track a reform that just a couple of years ago would have been received as an extravagance. But the geopolitical map is changing rapidly since Donald Trump came to power. The president of the United States has explicitly revealed that he justifies interventionism in the rest of the American continent. A political and military escalation, largely justified as a new and aggressive war on drugs, and which has Mexico, the neighbor to the south, as one of its favorite targets. That is the context defended by the party of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, for a constitutional shield that, in the absence of the details of the laws yet to be developed, has raised suspicions among the opposition due to the risk that the new criterion ends up being used in a discretionary manner in these times of maximum polarization.
