Soberanía 68: Flying the Unfriendly Skies
The unfriendly skies, indeed: as part of its ongoing turning-of-screws, the Trump administration is now meddling in Mexico’s internal aviation rules, with a series of fresh threats against flights to the US and the Delta-Aeromexico joint venture. Kurt and José Luis have a full breakdown. According to a new study, the biggest beneficiaries of the Mexico-US-Canada free-trade agreements have been: [drumroll], the big multinationals, vindicating what Chomsky warned about in the lead-up to the original NAFTA in 1994. The borough head of Cuauhtémoc rolls the culture-war dice by removing a popular statue of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara close to where they first met, and… burning books at the anti-gentrification rally?
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On the Threat of US Military Aggression in Mexico
The motive behind US invasions is not fundamentally ideological, religious, or moral, even though it adopts that guise: it is essentially economic. The US represents imperialism in its most complete form.
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The Five-Year Plan & The Certainty of China’s Proposal for the World
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan & Plan Mexico show remarkable convergence in areas such as industrial modernization, green transition, & advanced technologies, opening up prospects for deepening the strategic partnership between the two countries. The Chinese Embassy reiterates its willingness to work with Mexican society to promote fruitful cooperation in all areas &, together, fulfill the next five-year commitment to shared development.
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The Mirage of Development Without Industry & Without Agriculture
Mexico, a country that could have been an agricultural powerhouse, resigns itself to surviving on band-aids, managing its decline with welfare programs that change names but not their underlying logic while sacrificing food sovereignty to USMCA diktat.
