ANALYSIS

  • New Challenges for the China-Mexico Trade Relationship in 2026

    The lack of high-level dialogue between China and Mexico has eroded the possibility of effective coordination in multiple bilateral areas, particularly in foreign trade.

  • Attack on Venezuela: Mexico’s Response

    An interview with Daniela González López of Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de Los Pueblos.

  • Critical Minerals: Subordination

    The risk is clear: Mexico’s mining, environmental, & investment policies can be progressively shaped to comply with Washington’s parameters, while a model of coordinated dependency becomes the regional norm.

  • Fighting on the Mexican Side: Gringo Rebels from the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to the Wobblies

    US imperial intrusion into Mexico has another side: US citizens in Mexico contesting imperialism and constructing revolutionary change.

  • Credit Crunch

    As long as Mexican banking remains deregulated, it will continue to be detrimental to growth, generating high profits at the expense of debtors, both in the public and non-financial private sectors.

  • Solidarity or Submission

    The fight to save Cuba is the fight to save us all, writes José Luis Granados Ceja. We cannot let Cuba stand alone at this moment.

  • When Mexico Ceased Being an Exception

    For the Latin American left the meaning is clear: not sending to oil to Cuba will not be interpreted as realism or strategic prudence, but as an abandonment of a tradition that distinguished Mexico, even in the face of openly conservative governments of the past.

  • Cárdenas & Cuba: The Torrent of Solidarity

    Part of Mexico’s 1938 oil nationalization was paid for with the sweat of the Cuban people, and in 1961, a headline appeared in the Mexican newspaper Hoja Revolucionaria: “Not sending oil to Cuba is betraying the oil expropriation.”

  • Rights Under Siege: Democratic Crisis & The Risk of a Global Exodus

    On the world stage, the reaction to Trump’s imperialist assault remains at the level of statements of rejection: condemnations that sound firm but are ultimately empty, incapable of halting the Trump machine.

  • Who Will Defend Us?

    Public officials who are making strategic decisions for the future of our country today must not forget that in the last elections, 36 million citizens elected them to defend our institutions, to defend a sovereign Mexico, and to decisively prevent intervention. We don’t need lukewarm, confusing positions.

  • Mexico’s Green Party Has Served Neoliberals, Salinas Pliego & the 4T. Its Franchise Model is in Danger.

    Since the party’s inception, it’s placed its electoral profitability at the service of the winning party in power, becoming a key to passing or blocking reforms.

  • The USMCA & Economic Control

    Mexico is moving toward a de facto semi-customs union, but without the fiscal or political benefits of a formal union, and with a growing loss of commercial and industrial autonomy.

  • USMCA Review Needs to Include More Than Just Corporate Interests

    Mexico’s Economy Secretary Ebrard has cancelled social organization consultations and adopted a rhetoric of supplication towards corporate interests in advance of the USMCA review.

  • Berdegué, Agribusiness Hatchet Man

    With a crippling national farmers strike only one bad meeting away, the government’s disregard for Mexico’s agricultural crisis has a surprising face: its Secretary of Agriculture.

  • Classism & Racism in the Era of the Fourth Transformation

    In a world where dehumanization, exclusion, persecution of people based on their ethnicity, racism, and classism are exponentially increasing, these practices are not isolated incidents; they are symptoms.

  • Communism Without Rifles

    The Communist Party of Mexico’s mere existence helps prevent the political landscape from being reduced to a false dilemma between a managed progressivism & an increasingly aggressive right wing.

  • Morena is not the PRI of the ’70s

    The opposition’s claim that Morena is the PRI of the 70s lacks foundation; the votes with which it won in 2018 and 2024 reflect genuine popular support.

  • Mexico SA

    Canada has begun to make moves (such as rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China), but Mexico is clinging to the USMCA: all its eggs in one basket, something that, given the frenzied dynamic imposed by Trump, doesn’t seem to be the wisest course of action.

  • No Happy Ending for 2025

    If public investment continues to decline, the economy & employment will be highly vulnerable, and the foundations for sustained growth will not be laid. At best, we will remain a vast assembly plant; at worst, a country without decent employment opportunities.

  • Why Chicanas & Chicanos Must Defend Venezuela

    Simultaneous attacks on Venezuela and our communities via the criminal actions of ICE and the Border Patrol expose the twin pillars of the Trump/MAGA project.

  • Old Wine, New Bottles?

    While the share of wages in national income has increased in Mexico, trade liberalization, displacement of domestic production by imports, high interest rates & waning public spending hamper growth & maintain continuity with the much-maligned neoliberal period.

  • Canada Moves to China, What About Mexico?

    While it might have been argued until recently that countries like Brazil possess unparalleled geographical, historical, & economic advantages [compared to Mexico], Carney’s recent visit to China invalidates this interpretation.

  • Mexico in the Context of the New Imperialism

    Mexico must overcome the inertia of decades of unilateral alignment with the interests of the US and understand that the nation’s future depends, more than ever, on its ability to circumvent the encirclement that the empire seeks to impose on us, along with the other countries of the region.

  • Our Water, In Whose Hands?

    A promising vision from President Sheinbaum for public water management rapidly disappeared. Yet again the Mexican state openly assumes the role it has always played under neoliberalism: facilitating access to natural resources for special interests.

  • Plot of Complicity

    Mexico’s consumer protection agency has not sanctioned a real estate company since 2020 & the consequences in Puebla, where real estate fraud runs rampant, are obvious and dire.

  • Trump’s Pressure on Mexico & The Drugs Pretext

    Agencies like the CIA are ready to “accompany” Mexican operations, but does Trump really want to combat drug trafficking, or is his intention to manage & manipulate Mexico?

  • A Dangerous Year: Mexico Avoids Tariffs, but Trump Opens More & More Fronts

    The vast majority of exports from Mexico are from US corporations, while aluminum, steel, and tomatoes, which have Mexican national ownership, face significant tariffs.

  • A Tale of Two Marches: Reflections on a Saturday Spent on Reforma and 16 de Septiembre

    The calls for solidarity made that Saturday and at almost every political gathering would imply that this openness, this “passionate determination to reach all” is characteristic of and key to the movement’s survival and success.

  • Venezuela: Then & Now

    The US Constitution denies universal and equal rights at home and protects the military behemoth that denies the same rights abroad. A democratic constitution would create a new political playing field and strengthen the movement to dismantle the imperial war machine.

  • If Mexico distances itself further from China, it will be left alone against the US: Enrique Dussel

    In his view, Mexico’s national political and economic elite has failed to assume its responsibility to design a strategy toward China and Asia.

  • The US War on Latin America & The Caribbean

    When the world can watch a genocide unfold in real time, when the empire brazenly kidnaps a head of state, when multilateral institutions only muster mealy-mouthed statements in response, it becomes undeniable that only the people save the people.

  • A Renewed Opportunity for Indigenous Justice in Mexico

    It is crucial to move from rhetoric to action and initiate a genuine transformative process that begins at the federal level and extends across the board to state and local governments, which are directly responsible for ensuring compliance.

  • Hegemony Without Occupation: Mexican Elites Facing the United States

    The crucial question is not whether Mexico has competent elites, but whether those elites are willing to stop managing subordination as if it were a virtue.

  • Under the National Security Strategy, Trump Pushes for Latin America’s Minerals, Energy & Infrastructure

    Mexico is facing a race against time to strengthen not only energy sovereignty, but also energy security in a period of intensified US imperialism.

  • The White House Cartel

    “Make America Great Again” is an outdated slogan, since that country’s economic growth has been fueled by hundreds and thousands of acts of piracy.

  • Limits

    After the latest outrageous act by the head of the White House cartel a strong response from the Mexican government was to be expected. But it didn’t materialize.

  • These are not times for complacency

    US governments have spent two centuries acting according to their own interests, not those of the global community. Someone has to stop the empire and its representatives.

  • Julio Antonio Mella & Anti-imperialism

    Fidel Castro said that Mella, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Cuba who worked in Mexico, was the one who did the most in the least amount of time.

  • Mexico & Venezuela: The Other Ties

    Gestures of genuine solidarity also involve getting to know a little more about those about whom we speak and opine ad nauseam.

  • Let’s Talk About Migration: 2025, A Year Under Siege

    Trump’s danger lies not only in the harm he inflicts on migrants in the US, but also in the possibility that his xenophobic model will be replicated in other countries.

  • The New Fascism

    Fascism returns, manifesting itself in truly terrorist acts like those witnessed in Venezuela during these first days of January, writes Morena Deputy Magdalena Rosales Cruz.

  • 2025, A Year of Setbacks for Popular Struggle

    It is likely that we need to hit rock bottom to realize that this socio-economic system is a recipe for failure for the majority of humanity and for the planet in general.

  • Bolívar Versus Monroe: Two Antagonistic Visions of America

    The kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife confirms the nefarious expression of a doctrine that considers Latin American leaders as removable when they defy US dictates, writes Mexico’s Attorney General.

  • Workers Diplomacy & Bolivarian Brigades

    The call from the Caracas Congress for active solidarity and international unity of the working class against the global war of occupation unleashed by the terrorist US government is of paramount importance.

  • Venezuela, The People’s Hour

    The Bolivarian Revolution has succeeded in building a unity among the people, the armed forces, the police, & Bolivarian militias that the US operation of January 3 will not be able to break so easily.

  • Never With the Aggressors, Always with the Bolivarian Revolution

    Any explanation that justifies the military incursion of the US armed forces betrays the principles of dignity and political independence upon which national sovereignty rests. Anything else is demagoguery.

  • Bañogate & Openings for the Right

    A debacle surrounding Chihuahua’s 2026 budget shows if the 4th Transformation of the country is to be complete, it must be implemented in all states and in all aspects of the public sphere.

  • Tax Evasion Affects the Health Sector

    It is ironic, not to say cynical, that major tax evaders talk about the shortcomings in health services in their media outlets when the lack of resources is due, above all, to the multiple forms of tax evasion they engage in, writes ISSSTE Director Martí Batres.

  • Order Without Sovereignty, Integration Without Autonomy, Stability Without Transformation

    Mexico often imagines its relationship with the US as a partnership based on economic interdependence, mutual respect, and strategic cooperation. This narrative is functional for diplomacy & reassuring for national elites, but it is false.

  • Natural & Social Resources to the Rescue

    A new phase in the reconstruction of Mexico would be more visible, credible, and truly inspiring if the prices of food and other goods were to decrease so that wage increases could have the necessary positive effect.

  • The Transnational Corn Market

    Without state regulation and as a result of “free trade”, transnational corporations are increasingly controlling the basic food market and imperiling Mexican food sovereignty.

  • Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City

    Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.

  • The Poor as Instruments, Not Allies

    Welfare programs with political aims are not the same as forging political alliances with the impoverished population created by voracious neoliberal capitalism.

  • The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

    The entire Venezuelan people are showing courage in defending their sovereignty, writes MORENA deputy Magdalena Rosales Cruz.

  • Was There A Regime Change After 2018?

    Two narratives on Mexican politics after AMLO’s election and the historical processes that overwhelm them.

  • The Johnson Factor

    The United States, with Ambassador Ron Johnson playing a key role, is becoming the co-designer of Mexico’s “national security” strategy, which, beyond semantic games, means a surrender of sovereignty.

  • Towards a Revolution of Consciousness in 4th Transformation Diplomacy

    The pending task is to build a revolutionary international diplomacy that breaks with neoliberal inertia, imperialist interference, and is far from silent obedience to organizations captured by private interests, and the reproduction of a geopolitics based on dispossession, lies, and the systemic violence of transnational capital.

  • Rogue States & Pirates

    The US has used every possible means to interfere in the internal affairs of Latin American countries & now threatens direct land invasions. Yet, the region remains woefully unprepared. Time is running out to forge a coherent regional response.

  • A Bosses’ Trap?

    Mexico’s much-touted 40 hour workweek reform does not bring about a real reduction in the working day; on the contrary, it will become a more effective tool of exploitation and is an initiative designed for the benefit of employers and against the dignity of workers.

  • Tariffs & Industrial Sabotage

    The government’s stated reasoning for anti-China tariffs rings hollow when considering the flood of cheap US imports destroying the Mexican countryside and production dominated by US corporations exploiting Mexican labour.

  • Salvador Zarco: The Train & A Life

    The locomotive mechanic, trade unionist and communist helped found the Railroad Workers Museum after fighting the neoliberal privatization of Mexico’s railways.

  • Taibo II: Suppressing Self Criticism in 4th Transformation More Dangerous Than a Rupture

    In an interview, the writer and Morena founder emphasized the pursuit of unity at all costs can be counterproductive, as it hinders the purging of those who replicate the practices of “old politics.”

  • The Right That Doesn’t Exist

    The map of the Mexican right wing that some on the left claim doesn’t exist is vast.

  • China: An Outstretched Hand

    While Trump carries on a policy of aggression, China proposes to cooperate without interfering in the internal politics of its counterparts, while possessing the technological and financial capabilities to contribute to Latin America & the Caribbean’s sustainable development.

  • An Exclusionary & Elitist World Cup

    The World Cup is a business and does not benefit the working class in any way. On the contrary, resources are lost to football stadiums that should be used for education and health.

  • The Presidential Mandate & The Battle to Transform CIDE

    Despite entrenched, hostile forces, President AMLO’s push to transform the public institution CIDE from a bastion of neoliberalism to one which can consider national development from a sovereign perspective carries on.

  • The 4T Speeds Up

    Today, President Sheinbaum has a much wider margin of action than her predecessor. It appears that the transformation will accelerate in the coming years.

  • The Trump Corollary & Manifest Destiny

    From George Washington to Donald Trump, there is no President whose plans do not include the myth of Manifest Destiny as an argument for imposing their imperialist dominance.

  • Because Women’s Bodies Belong to Women

    An interview with human rights defender, union organizer, & educator Fabiola Paulina Ramírez Ortiz, founder of Mariposas Mirabal.

  • The Failed USMCA Project

    Transnational corporations won in both NAFTA & the USMCA, and Mexico is not prepared to face the greater demands the US will impose in its favor for the continuation of the USMCA or in a new trade agreement.

  • Venezuela, The Day After

    Venezuela possesses the people, weapons, determination, and territory capable of sustaining a prolonged popular resistance, turning any attempt to occupy it into a quagmire for whoever tries.

  • Tren Maya on the Tracks of History

    An interview with Étienne von Bertrab, author of the new book Más allá: una historia del Tren Maya.

  • Continuing Neoliberal Policies Over Farmers’ Demands

    If the government fails to meet the needs of the population and continues to act in favor of the interests of the US and the financial sector, economic and social problems and discontent among affected sectors will worsen, leading to increased protests.

  • The Decorative Left & The Transformative Left

    Mexico cannot remain trapped in symbolic battles that don’t even budge the productive apparatus: it needs a left with its feet on the ground & its eyes on the future.

  • The Needed Debate on Mexico’s Informal Economy

    Millions of people in Mexico work outside the legal framework and without social protection, in activities that don’t appear in formal statistics yet sustain much of the country.

  • A New “40 Hour” Workweek… With Six Days?

    Mexico has an opportunity to reimagine working hours & well-being: instead, President Sheinbaum’s proposal offers a symbolic reduction that leaves intact a 6 day work week & opens the door to 12 hour days.

  • Venezuela, Mexico & The Defense of Latin America

    The passivity of Latin American governments regarding the criminal conduct of the US government in bombing ships in both the Caribbean and the Pacific has reached scandalous levels.

  • Crisis in Puebla’s Countryside

    INEGI figures prove it: agriculture in Puebla state is collapsing. In one year, 103,219 workers, almost 20% of the agricultural workforce, lost their jobs.

  • The Return of Large Scale Mining in Mexico

    Secretary of Economy Ebrard’s announcement at an Acapulco mining convention was welcome news for Canadian mining companies, who see in the Second Floor of the Fourth Transformation a possibility to return to the rapacious plunder of Mexican minerals of the neoliberal period.

  • AMLO’s “Grandeza”

    The introduction to former President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s newest book, Grandeza.

  • Trump: Sowing Tragedies

    Just yesterday the American gangster reaffirmed how little he cares about controlling the flow of narcotics by announcing a full & complete pardon for drug trafficker & former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández.

  • Mexico’s Ultra-Right Electoral Projects Beached, But…

    The neoliberal Somos México, which includes ex-officials of the National Electoral Institute, appears to be the force with the most realistic chance of obtaining its registration for the 2027 elections, although the neo-pentecostal CSP is also mobilizing.

  • Mexico’s Agricultural Crisis & Transnational Corporations

    National agriculture is in crisis, and if the government does not respond, the food supply for Mexicans will be left in the hands of transnational corporations.

  • Dependency & Development

    Mexico’s problem is that, despite an influx of foreign capital, the economy isn’t growing: corporations profit, but don’t stimulate domestic production because they rely heavily on imported components & transfer profits abroad.

  • For a Comprehensive Agricultural Plan for Mexico

    It’s essential the government develop a comprehensive plan for rural development that goes beyond combating poverty & marginalization & promotes a development policy that supports farmers.

  • On the Ninth Anniversary of Comandante Fidel Castro’s Passing

    Until the day of his death, Fidel was still in the trenches, on the front lines, leading the fight for the ideas he believed in, ideas that nothing and no one could ever make him renounce.

  • On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

    It is the state’s responsibility to implement the actions required to build a country without violence, where respect, constructive coexistence, & recognition of the value of women and their contribution to the social, economic, & political life of Mexico prevail.

  • Rural Rage

    As Monday’s protests demonstrate, Mexican farmers are at a breaking point. Caught between the USMCA trade agreement and a wall of policies that ignore them, they are fighting for their survival. Their anger will not subside anytime soon.

  • Valentín Campa

    Valentín Campa gave his life to the Communist Party, but he also gave it to the landless, the peasants, the workers; convinced our country would only be strengthened & belong to everyone when “we all went to sleep having eaten more or less the same thing.”

  • Financing Fascism: A Salinas Family Affair

    Hugo Salinas Price, father of “Gen-Z” march puppeteer Ricardo Salinas Pliego, became an anti-left operator after the Cuban Revolution’s triumph, financing numerous fascist initiatives, one of them a shock group linked to the CIA.

  • Donald Trump & the Coup Plotters Who Betray Mexico

    Our government must be vigilant in punishing those who commit the crime of treason, since opposition figures in Mexico periodically express their hope that Trump will take action against the government, without ruling out armed intervention.

  • “Life isn’t just about work”: Why the 40-Hour Week Can’t Wait

    Mexico’s National Front for the 40-hour Workweek marks its second anniversary with nationwide mobilizations demanding an immediate reduction in working hours, in a country that works the most in the OECD.

  • Becoming a Migrant Defender

    An interview with Aarón Ortiz Santos of the Council of Mexican Migrant Federations and Organizations.

  • The Category of Fascism & the Latin American Debate

    Today, right-wing experiences are diverse, with little homogeneity in economic programs, appealing to sectors extending beyond large financiers & the “middle classes.” However, what is most striking about them is the absence of a vision for the future.

  • Reducing Inflation with Cheap Imports is Costly

    Mexico’s imports are equivalent to 48% of agricultural production, resulting in a year-on-year loss of food sovereignty and a greater dependence on capital inflows which benefits the financial sector at the expense of national public & private sectors.

  • Tina Modotti: Woman, Camera, Revolution

    It’s a revolutionary task to document the harsh living conditions of working people, how they strive to gain their rightful place as the backbone of any society.

  • Maduro: US Imperialists are After Latin America’s Strategic Resources

    The President of Venezuela gives a wide-ranging interview in which he reiterates his commitment to dialogue for peace, but emphasizes Venezuela is prepared should Washington decide to attack.

  • The Crisis in the Mexican Countryside

    Environmental deregulation, rural abandonment, speculative pricing, and the prioritization of property rights over human rights were central tenets of neoliberal economic policy, whose impact on Mexican farmers is now a subject of reflection in our country.

  • Mexican Delegation in Washington to Fight USMCA Capitulation

    It is more urgent than ever to understand and address the threat posed by transnational capital since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. The USMCA, although it has a different name and some modifications, still represents a threat to our national sovereignty and the self-determination of our peoples.

  • Cracked Actor

    Marco Rubio is the broken mask of a decaying empire that, unable to maintain its hegemony through consensus, resorts to theatrical punishment, with weapons and “tariffs.”