Week of July 5 – 11, 2026: A weekly read for North Americans who believe the continent is worth more together than apart — what moved this week, what it means, and what it asks of us.
One place where I see things a little differently is on Mexico’s identity. I tend to see Mexico less as part of a broad Latin American story and more as an essential North American nation whose future will increasingly be shaped by the continent it shares with Canada and the United States.
That doesn’t mean turning away from Latin America or denying its cultural ties. But geopolitics, economics, security, energy, infrastructure, and increasingly even innovation are asking Mexico to make a strategic choice about where it wants to build its future.
I suspect that question—whether Mexico ultimately chooses to think of itself primarily as a North American country or a Latin American one—may become one of the defining debates of the next generation. I’d be very interested in your thoughts.
You are spot on. Mexico’s ideal way is to align its future to North America. What makes Mexico unique is that it can do both at the same time.
Our cultural agility and diversity is one and only.
We are already adapted and interconnected with North American and share culture with the South.
So in this case we can have the “Cake and Eat it Too” so to say.
Why there is no strategic thinking and planning is that our political systems are not really “political systems” but more so systems of power and control that financially benefit those in power and not the nation.
An exceptionally strong issue. The line “Mexico is not short of demand. It is short of delivery” captures the central challenge with unusual clarity. What makes this edition especially valuable is that it does not treat Mexico, Canada, and the United States as separate stories, but as parts of one continental system of capital, energy, infrastructure, security, and trust. The collaboration with the U.S.-Mexico Foundation is also an important step: North America needs more people thinking from inside the region, not merely observing it from national capitals. This is exactly the kind of work the continent needs.
Another excellent issue, Eduardo.
One place where I see things a little differently is on Mexico’s identity. I tend to see Mexico less as part of a broad Latin American story and more as an essential North American nation whose future will increasingly be shaped by the continent it shares with Canada and the United States.
That doesn’t mean turning away from Latin America or denying its cultural ties. But geopolitics, economics, security, energy, infrastructure, and increasingly even innovation are asking Mexico to make a strategic choice about where it wants to build its future.
I suspect that question—whether Mexico ultimately chooses to think of itself primarily as a North American country or a Latin American one—may become one of the defining debates of the next generation. I’d be very interested in your thoughts.
You are spot on. Mexico’s ideal way is to align its future to North America. What makes Mexico unique is that it can do both at the same time.
Our cultural agility and diversity is one and only.
We are already adapted and interconnected with North American and share culture with the South.
So in this case we can have the “Cake and Eat it Too” so to say.
Why there is no strategic thinking and planning is that our political systems are not really “political systems” but more so systems of power and control that financially benefit those in power and not the nation.
An exceptionally strong issue. The line “Mexico is not short of demand. It is short of delivery” captures the central challenge with unusual clarity. What makes this edition especially valuable is that it does not treat Mexico, Canada, and the United States as separate stories, but as parts of one continental system of capital, energy, infrastructure, security, and trust. The collaboration with the U.S.-Mexico Foundation is also an important step: North America needs more people thinking from inside the region, not merely observing it from national capitals. This is exactly the kind of work the continent needs.
Thank you Allen! We need more passionate citizens such as you if we want to have a better future.