Simon Romero
@simonromero.bsky.social
NYT Correspondent in Mexico City. Previous postings: Caracas, Rio, Houston, Albuquerque, São Paulo. New Mexico born & raised
Remote workers in Mexico City are facing the ire of protesters. This wave of anger against relatively well-heeled foreigners didn't come out of nowhere. Our explainer: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...
Why Are Protesters in Mexico City Angry at Remote Workers?
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The new chief justice of Mexico's Supreme Court started life as a goatherd in a remote Mixtec-speaking village in Oaxaca. I interviewed Hugo Aguilar Ortiz for this story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/w...
He Was a Goatherd as a Boy. Now He’ll Lead Mexico’s Top Court.
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Mexico's sweeping judicial overhaul is getting off to a rocky start: Nearly 90 percent of voters opted not to cast ballots, an exceptional level of abstention. Our analysis: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w...
Low Turnout in Mexico’s Far-Reaching Judicial Election Fuels Legitimacy Concerns
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Mexico has a staggering dependence on imports of natural gas from the U.S., which is used to make electricity and power the country's export-driven industrial base. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Mexico’s Reliance on U.S. Natural Gas Could Be Its Achilles’ Heel (Gift Article)
Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade.
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The obituary of Mario Vargas Llosa that I wrote for The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89 (Gift Article)
Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders o...
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Aiming to appease Trump, Mexico is hitting China with tariffs, deploying thousands of troops to deter migration, handing cartel leaders over to the United States and using C.I.A. intelligence to hunt down others. Will that be enough to stave off tariffs? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Mexico’s Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Troops, Cartels and China
Aiming to appease President Trump, Mexico is hitting China with tariffs, handing cartel leaders over to the United States and using C.I.A. intelligence to hunt down others.
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My Green Room interview with @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social where I talk about my path to journalism, New Mexico chile and Sofia Imber's sublime contemporary art museum in Caracas www.zocalopublicsquare.org/new-york-tim...
An Interview with New York Times International Correspondent Simon Romero
Simon Romero is a New York Times correspondent based in Mexico City covering Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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Escalating executive power grab: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab (Gift Article)
In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law.
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After Mexico reached a deal to avoid tariffs -- for now -- I joined colleagues at The Daily to discuss trade tensions between Mexico and the United States. We explored the question: Where does North America go from here? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/p...
How North America Averted a Trade War, for Now
Mexico and Canada persuaded President Trump to delay a threatened 25 percent tariff, hours before it was scheduled to bite.
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NEW: Trump hits Colombia with 25% tariffs + sanctions --Colombia's president rejected U.S. military deportation flights --Measures call into question Colombia's longtime status as a top ally in Latin America --Brazil also complained about treatment of deportees www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/w...
Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights
Gustavo Petro said that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees.
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How Labeling Mexico's Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could Hurt the U.S. Economy w/ Maria Abi-Habib www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/w...
Labeling Mexican Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could Expose U.S. Companies to Sanctions
Isolating U.S. companies from cartel activities could be almost impossible given that the criminal groups operate in sectors like agriculture and tourism, leaving some American businesses vulnerable t...
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Mexico is getting ready to negotiate with Trump. Here’s what’s different this time. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/w...
How Mexico Is Preparing for Tariffs Negotiations With Trump (Gift Article)
President Claudia Sheinbaum is detaining more migrants, seizing more fentanyl and positioning her country as a key ally against China. But the U.S. stance has shifted, too.
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What border crisis? --Unlawful border crossings are at their lowest level in years --Migrant shelters in Mexico's border cities are way under capacity --Movement through the Darién Gap is falling sharply Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/w...
What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump
Ahead of the inauguration, migrant shelters south of the Rio Grande are far from full, a reflection of the tougher measures imposed on both sides of the border.
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Crispín Agustín Mendoza has been many things in his life: undocumented migrant in California, college graduate, successful businessman, returnee to Mexico Now he's facing attempts on his life as mayor of a small town in Guerrero My profile of Crispín: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/w...
A Mexican Mayor’s Odyssey: From Undocumented Migrant to Cartel Target
A former undocumented resident of California who now runs a town in Mexico, Crispín Agustín Mendoza has survived one assassination attempt. But he says, “I have to learn how to survive.”
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The other mass deportations: More than 71,000 people sent to Haiti from Dominican Republic since October www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/w...
Desperate Haitians Who Fled to the Dominican Republic Are Being Sent Back in Cages
Relations between the neighboring countries on the island of Hispaniola have long been frosty. They are now complicated by up to 10,000 deportations a week.
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If Trump’s threat of hefty tariffs on Canada and Mexico was intended as a divide-and-conquer strategy, early signs show that it might be working www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/w...
Trump’s Tariff Threat Pits Canada Against Mexico (Gift Article)
The president-elect’s opening salvo in trade and border talks with the United States’ neighbors is casting a harsh light on the North American alliance.
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Sheinbaum says Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
Mexican President Mulls Retaliatory Tariffs After Trump’s Threats
President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.
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Trump Plans Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China That Could Cripple Trade www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/b...
Trump Plans Tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico That Could Cripple Trade
The president-elect said that he would impose the across-the-board tariffs on Day 1 and that they would stay in place until Canada, Mexico and China halted the flow of drugs and migrants.
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Breaking news related to two big stories by @SearchlightNM's @MrJoshuaBowling about lavish spending by a university president who's married to Valerie Plame. First one here, from late 2023: searchlightnm.org/the-finer-th...
joshua bowling🌵@cosmicbowling.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: NM Office of the State Auditor says Western New Mexico University has "engaged in the waste of public funds" after my reporting first shed light on the small-town uni "Wasteful," "improper" & "non-compliant" spending incl $214K on travel & $149K on credit cards, incl luxury furniture 1/
Brazil's Lula was targeted in assassination plot by members of an elite army unit. Their aim in 2022, investigators say, was to keep Bolsonaro in power. More from @anaionova.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/w...
Brazilian Police Arrest Soldiers in Alleged Plot to Kill President Lula
Members of an elite army unit planned to kill Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022 as part of an effort to keep Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the presidential election.
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ICYMI: Could a tariff war erupt between the United States and Mexico? Marcelo Ebrard, who is poised to be one of Mexico’s top negotiators with the Trump administration, said that retaliatory tariffs are on the table. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/w...
Mexico Signals It Could Hit Back With Tariffs at U.S.
Could a tariff war erupt between the United States and Mexico? A top Mexican official said his country might retaliate if the Trump administration placed steep tariffs on Mexico.
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