Whom does Mexico favor in November? (original) (raw)

Last December, the rumor running through the Mexican political class was that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wanted to throw the U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump.

Blaming a cash shortage, the Mexican migration authority had essentially stopped intercepting migrants moving north through its territory toward the United States. Migrant encounters with U.S. agents at the southern border surged to over 300,000, the highest monthly tally on record. Republicans had a field day accusing the Biden administration of allowing chaos at the border.