Hegemony in the Americas Has Been Turned on Its Head

Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and a coterie of senior U.S. officials piled onto a plane to Mexico City to try to stop Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from giving a planned fiery speech denouncing alleged U.S. infringement on Mexico’s national sovereignty. A trade dispute was brewing between U.S. and Canadian officials and their Mexican counterparts over perceived Mexican favoritism in contracting local energy companies. Under normal circumstances, the disagreement would have been settled through mechanisms in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. But Mexico’s president is not...