High wire: The Sheinbaum administration and the future of US-Mexico relations

Since taking office in October 2024, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has governed as both the inheritor and interpreter of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s political legacy: implementing sweeping constitutional reforms while navigating a challenging bilateral relationship with the United States. How her administration manages shifting security dynamics and intense anti-crime pressure from the United States, including the threat of U.S. military strikes, domestic political fractures, and the impending review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, will have significant consequences for the future of Mexico and North America.

On May 26, the Brookings Foreign Policy Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors will host a discussion on Mexico’s politics, security, and trade. The conversation will be moderated by Mary Beth Sheridan, former Mexico bureau chief for The Washington Post, and will feature Brookings experts Vanda Felbab-Brown and Christopher Sands, and Pamela Starr of the University of Southern California.

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