Mexico - May 2026

We begin this May edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico by looking at the country’s new foreign minister, Roberto Velasco Álvarez. At 38 years old and viewed as a leading expert on US relations, Velasco at once signals a generational changing of the guard within the government’s ranks and a tactical reinforcement of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s strategic priority of managing relations with the US administration of President Donald Trump. However, Velasco will face many challenges as he takes over the role at a particularly delicate time, as this opening article explains.

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