Laura Carlsen is a leading journalist reporting on Latin America and especially Mexico for US media. A familiar and always popular speaker in San Miguel, she updates us on the Mexican scene today from US-Mexican relations under Trump, to NAFTA 2.0, and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s accomplishments and challenges in his first year,
Everyday life in the San Miguel "bubble" is worlds away from that in Sinaloa, where cartel activity is a normal presence in the every fiber of politics, commerce and everyday life. Its perception within Sinaloa comes at least as much from ambient backdrop as through efforts in the media to pierce the curtain. Not many writers take on that... Read more