MXPE Weekly Essentials

The southern aristocracy, armed forces cabinet, working poverty, Mexico’s “only” corruption case, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.

The ruling coalition’s senators approved Mexico’s controversial judicial reform in commission. Another step towards deep constitutional change. But don’t worry, The Mexico Political Economist is publishing an explainer on this reform on Wednesday. 

The US press has made much ado about Mexico’s president-elect’s Jewish heritage. “Mexico’s first Jewish president” is not a label Claudia Sheinbaum has particularly embraced. True, both her parents were Mexicans of Jewish European descent, but Sheinbaum has made it clear that she is not close to that particular identity.

Judaism has distracted from the heritage that Sheinbaum does wear on her sleeve: