Briefs

  • Mexico Rising: Under AMLO, a Sharp Left Turn

    An interview with historian Edwin F. Ackerman on the political origins, activities and legacy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.


  • Health Care Where There Is No Doctor

    Part 1 of an interview with David Werner, radical author and health and social justice activist, co-founder and director of Healthwrights on his experience with campesino medicine.


  • Mexico’s transformation advances with President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum

    “It is the Time of Women” proclaims Claudia: her own election is symbolic of a much broader change.


  • ¡Reforma Ya!

    Mexico’s political institutions reflect majority opinion; Morena is in power because the country’s political system allows third parties to grow (it’s only ten years old) and because most people support its policies, including democratizing the judiciary.


  • Sovereignty Is Never Up for Negotiation

    The sort of interference proposed by Brazil and Colombia is an affront to sovereignty, even when it comes from friendly governments.


  • Nature and/or Economic Development?

    In this interview, agroecologist Dr. Cecilia Elizondo explains a new “both/and” model of development being tried in Mexico of agro-ecology, wholistic development and food sovereignty.


  • Ambassadors Salazar & Clark Win the Negroponte Prize

    Ken Salazar, US ambassador, and Graeme Clark, Canadian ambassador, need an intensive course in the basics of international diplomacy.


  • Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left

    Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.


  • Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike

    An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.


  • The Terrible Ignorance of Norma Piña

    Much to the consternation of relics of the neoliberal order like Supreme Court President Norma Piña, more than 80% of Mexicans back a major change to the judiciary, blackened with a legacy of widespread accusations of corruption, questionable rulings and failing to deliver justice to victims.

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