Soberanía 84: The Post-Monroe Moment
This week on Soberanía, Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja bundle up for a freezing Mexico City episode and break down three stories that reveal where Mexico stands in today’s shifting global politics. First, they explore Mexico and the “old world” — new meetings between Mexico, France, Spain, the EU and CELAC, and what these diplomatic moves say about Latin America’s growing independence from European influence. Then they turn to Ricardo Salinas Pliego, as Mexico’s most notorious oligarch finally faces the Supreme Court after years of legal dodges by his companies. The hosts unpack what this long-delayed reckoning means for accountability and the balance between power and money in Mexico. Finally, they examine Israel’s false claim of an “Iranian plot” in Mexico, how the story unraveled, and what it reveals about media manipulation and foreign attempts to drag Mexico into geopolitical narratives. And as always, it all wraps up with Losers and Haters of the Week, this time focusing on the so-called Gen Z protests and how they’re being weaponized by the opposition and media to push an anti-government narrative.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Delivers Housing and Settlements of Unpayable Loans in Chiapas
Sheinbaum questioned the housing policy during neoliberalism, that practically canceled the construction of housing to replace it with the granting of unpayable loans that only benefited the real estate developer to the detriment of the beneficiaries.
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Thousand-Year-Old Maya City Discovered in Campeche
Mexican and Slovenian archaeologists used LiDAR to find Minanbé in the Calakmul reserve, with a 13-meter temple and a stela carved with a decapitation scene dated 849.
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Exhibition on Maya Culture Amazes in China
The “most ambitious and largest-scale” international exhibition in the museum’s nearly 10-year history. More than 800 artifacts fill Beijing’s Capital Museum, where curators trace parallels between Mayan, Inca and Chinese civilization.
