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Ian Bremmer explains the 10 Top Risks of 2025
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Ian Bremmer explains the 10 Top Risks of 2025

Every January, Eurasia Group, our parent company, produces a report with its forecast for the world's Top 10 Risks in the year ahead. Its authors are EG President Ian Bremmer and EG Chairman Cliff Kupchan. Ian explains the Top 10 Risks for 2025, one after the other. He also discusses the three Red Herrings.

Why Canadians are tired of Justin Trudeau
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Why Canadians are tired of Justin Trudeau

Why is Mexico's judiciary overhaul controversial? After losing another parliamentary seat, is Justin Trudeau's time as Canada's leader coming to an end? 2.5 years in, and 1 million now dead or injured. Is Russia's invasion of Ukraine any closer to resolution? Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hands over a ceremonial baton of command to Claudia Sheinbaum after she was elected by the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) as its candidate to succeed him in 2024 in the presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico September 7, 2023.
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Mexico’s president-elect pushes controversial judicial reform

In her first press conference since winning the Mexican election in a landslide earlier this month, president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum backed a highly controversial plan to introduce a popular vote for the country’s Supreme Court justices.

Outgoing Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks as she registers as a for the ruling MORENA party's 2024 presidential election primary.
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Is she Mexico’s next president?

Claudia Sheinbaum, the outgoing mayor of Mexico City, is the frontrunner to succeed popular President AMLO.

Mario Delgado, president of Mexico's ruling Morena party, during a press conference to unveil the four presidential candidates in Mexico City.
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AMLO wants a popular successor

Mexico's ruling Morena Party on will pick its 2024 presidential nominee in a unique way.

Delfina Gomez, candidate for governor of the State of Mexico for the Morena party, celebrates after preliminary election results are announced in Toluca.
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AMLO's party wins big Mexican state, looking good for 2024

The president is showing that he can extend his popularity to the candidates he handpicks.

Protesters against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's plan to reform the electoral authority, in Mexico City, Mexico, February 26, 2023.
Europe

Hard Numbers: Mexicans protest AMLO changes, North Korea seeks grain, Iran hearts Ipanema, a controversial kiss from Kosovo

How many people in Mexico City took part in recent mass protests against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s overhaul of the electoral system?

Composite of Mexican protesters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wearing a Basquiat shirt, and former US President Donald Trump in front of an American flag
US Election

What We’re Watching: Trump’s 2024 plans, G-20 & Basquiat in Bali, AMLO vs. Mexican democracy

Donald Trump’s “big announcement”, Basquiat in Bali, Mexicans rally against AMLO’s election reform

Mexico's corruption referendum eye-roll
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Mexico's corruption referendum eye-roll

Mexico's president got his referendum on whether to prosecute his predecessors for corruption. But Mexicans didn't show up — and now AMLO is on the hook for his failed experiment in direct democracy.

Mexico’s midterms: AMLO unbound?
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Mexico’s midterms: AMLO unbound?

Mexico's midterm elections are largely a referendum on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's controversial agenda. His Morena party is set to win big — why is AMLO, as he's known, so popular despite coming up short on so many of his promises?