The World Cup has afforded space for Mexico’s President Sheinbaum to play a constructive role in defusing Middle East tensions, but asymmetric realities will make it hard to repeat the trick on Cuba or the cartels.

The struggle between the U.S. and China reveals a central truth of modern geopolitics: influence is not just built, it’s narrated.

At a time when the U.S. faces a credibility deficit in much of the world, cutting off one of the few institutions designed to build bridges rather than walls is a stunning act of strategic negligence.

GONGOs – state-backed or state-friendly NGOs – are increasingly influential in UN mechanisms, drowning out legitimate human rights voices and fueling geopolitical tensions in Europe and beyond.