2024 will be an eventful year across the world, with presidential elections in Mexico and the United States occupying many journalists’ minds in these parts, and the depressing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza likely to continue with no clear end in sight.

Getting Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to stay quiet for long can be a tricky task. Earlier this year, in response to one question at a trilateral confab press conference, he prattled on for half an hour, infuriating fellow leaders Biden and Trudeau.

A few weeks ago, the Mexican government recognized the day 68 years ago when women were permitted to emit a vote in a federal election for the first time.

The latest data puts Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, as the clear favorite to succeed Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the next president of Mexico in 2024.

The risks of traveling through Mexico are well known to longtime expat residents, plus those who properly research this country, read newspapers and digest advice wisely.

Did the friendly facade of this week’s “Tres Amigos” summit among the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada hide underlying tensions behind the scenes?