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David A. Shirk

San Diego
As seen in: The San Diego Union-Tribune, The World Bank Research Observer, The Salinas Californian
University of San Diego Professor, Woodrow Wilson Global Fellow. Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexican border aficionado. Giant slayer.
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The Fall of “El Mencho”: Mexican Security Forces Kill CJNG Leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes

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By David A. Shirk
| justiceinmexico.org
02/23/2026 (written by dshirk) – On February 22, 2026, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers, was killed in a major Mexican security operation in in a mountainous area of the municipality of Tapalpa, Jalisco.
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The Future of France's Far-Right Party

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By William Drozdiak, Christopher Sands, David A. Shirk, Kateryna Odarchenko
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was convicted of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on March 31, which banned her from running for president in 2027 and deepened a political crisis that threatens to topple the Fifth Republic created nearly seven decades ago by Charles de Gaulle. Judges sentenced Le Pen to four years in prison and barred her from seeking public office for the next five years.
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Mexico’s 2024 Judicial Reform: The Politicization of Justice

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By David A. Shirk
In September 2024, then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed through a major constitutional reform deliberately intended to make Mexico’s judiciary more responsive to popular opinion and political influences.
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