ANALYSIS

  • Heberto Castillo: Nationalize the Revolution

    Heberto Castillo urged the Mexican left to look to our own history and find in it the answers for the transformation of Mexico, writes Martí Batres.

  • Camino Rojo: Impunity & Reluctance

    What special privilege do mining corporations (both national and foreign) enjoy in Mexico, where they get away with everything, even in these times when the law is supposed to be applied equally without exception?

  • Orla Mining: Investigate & Clarify

    If it is confirmed that the Canadian mining company hired criminals to persecute its workers, the sanction cannot be limited to an administrative procedure, as this would allow companies to normalize fines as just another operating cost.

  • Mexico’s 2027 Preliminary General Economic Policy Guidelines: Out of Touch with Reality

    The government must abandon its policy of fiscal austerity and stop responding to international rating agencies and financial capital. It must act in favor of national production & employment.

  • The USMCA Review: Big Pharma, Glyphosate, & Secure Electronic Payments

    Our main trading partner is pressuring the Mexican government in several economic areas, including digital payment services and intellectual property, seeking to gain ground for US companies.

  • Unresolved Issues with Teachers

    Until this crisis is addressed at its root, public education will remain the weakest link in a chain of inequalities that can no longer tolerate excuses. Mexico owes its teachers much more than applause in the Zócalo: it owes them justice.

  • Reports of its Death May Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    BlackRock, fracking, public-private partnerships, the financial elites and Mexico’s inertia and budgetary shortcomings.

  • History, Culture & Mental Health

    Community-rooted and culturally responsive, Colorado’s El centro AMISTAD provides unique health, education and social services.

  • Mexican National Farmers Strike for Food Sovereignty

    Progress toward food sovereignty requires policies that protect, regulate, and promote the responsibility of the State. Maintaining the mistaken notion that these are goodwill aid packages given to farmers and agricultural producers only when budgetary resources are available will deepen the agricultural crisis and increase food dependency.

  • The Return of the Farmers

    The fact that the authorities have spoken with the farmers doesn’t mean their demands have been met. Caught between the fire of the USMCA and the wall of public policies that strangle or abandon them, they are fighting for their survival.

  • Struggles of the Women’s Secretariat: From Combating Femicide to Political Violence

    An interview with Mexico’s Secretary for Women, Citlalli Hernández Mora.

  • Committee on Enforced Disappearances: An Inadmissible Application

    Those who seek to subject Mexico to external oversight raise strong suspicions that there are ulterior motives and interests behind the request that they dare not make public.

  • “The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.”

    The Mexico Embraces You program has responded well by offering social support to returning Mexicans, but a clear strategy is needed.

  • Without a Project & Leadership

    Mexico avoids straining relations and, at the same time, avoids pursuing an industrial policy that might affect established interests, particularly those of large transnational corporations. External constraints & internal indecisiveness reinforce each other.

  • Mexican Hawaiians, Paniolos and Planters

    Sonora-born coffee grower Armando Rodriguez now calls Hawaii his home: carrying on a tradition since the early 1800s, when King Kamehameha welcomed vaqueros, or paniolos, to the island to train horses & breed cattle.

  • Mexico Requires a Deterrence Strategy

    Mexico should continue to work at maintaining a positive relationship with our closest neighbor and number one trading partner. But acting like Trump isn’t capable of unilateral military action against us is foolish.

  • The Hidden Connections Between the Ukrainian Military & Drug Cartels

    It is difficult to believe that European intelligence services, which rigorously monitor arms trafficking, would ignore the flow of weapons & drones into the Americas.

  • Anti-4T Civil Associations Allegedly Simulated Activities to Evade Taxes

    Mexico’s Tax Administration Service revoked the authorization of 270 civil associations to receive tax-deductible donations, including 3 organizations with ties to the Atlas Network, NED and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

  • Tariffs Without Industry: The Trap of Mexican Trade Policy Towards China

    Without a policy aimed at increasing the productive investment rate to accompany the country’s reindustrialization process, trade barriers will be inefficient due to the rigidity of the productive structure.

  • A Change of Course Urgently Needed for Plan México

    The announcements of new investments that never materialize must end now, and with them, the change or evolution of Plan México.

  • Mexico’s Mobile Consulates in the US

    Such consulates perform an extremely important task, especially when the policies of the US administration under Donald Trump are becoming increasingly aggressive.

  • A Law to Protect the Dignity & Life of Women

    Mexico’s General Law to Prevent, Investigate, Sanction and Repair the Damage for the Crime of Femicide seeks to strengthen the capacity of the State to protect, act promptly, investigate, as well as guarantee truth, justice and reparation for victims.

  • Mental Health at Risk

    The damage to the mental health and lives of millions of people may already be, to some degree, irreversible; the question is whether we will have the capacity to regulate digital platforms.

  • PEMEX & Energy Security in the Face of the International Crisis

    In Mexico, energy is a public good provided by the State to ensure the continuity, reliability, accessibility, affordability, and sustainability of fuel and electricity supply as pillars of development.

  • “Mexico is the sister land that has always stood by Cuba, in good times & bad.”

    An interview with President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, by Luis Hernández Navarro of La Jornada.

  • Ecocidal Militarism

    If citizens in Western democracies were asked whether their militaries should build public infrastructure instead of waging war, they would almost certainly choose the latter. Abby Martin’s newest film “The Greatest Enemy of the Earth,” documents the environmental cost of the American empire.

  • Failing the Stress Test: What the Measles Resurgence in Mexico Reveals About a Fragmented Health System

    Surveying the land, 13 months into Mexico’s most recent outbreak.

  • Who Produces Social Wealth & Who Concentrates It?

    Who built the powerful economic empire of Tehuacán’s poultry industry? Was it solely the entrepreneurial intelligence of its founder? Obviously not.

  • Banks Profit at the Expense of Undermining Economic Growth

    Mexico’s banking industry, which profits from interest rates that reduced the spending and investment capacity of the government, businesses, and heavily indebted households; has a bizarrely rosy outlook for 2026.

  • The USMCA: Dependence In a World Without Free Trade

    Mexico is beginning to adopt positions compatible with U.S. priorities not through sovereign decision, but due to the constraints of its own integration.

  • For a Solidarity of the South

    It is essential that Mexico and Brazil redouble their solidarity with Cuba, both out of altruism and the understanding that the fate of the Global South hinges on the island.

  • Predatory Advertising

    More normalized than the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Mexico is the consumption of soft drinks. This is because our country has been the victim of one of the most devastating forms of predatory advertising: Coca-Cola advertising.

  • Workers’ Struggle at Transnational JK Tyre Turns Bloody

    How is it possible that, in 2026, Mexican workers still have to physically defend themselves against armed groups while simultaneously fighting for their rights and class interests?

  • Workers Purchasing Power Decreases

    “The task at hand for workers can be none other than to promote organization and combative struggle in defense of our class interests,” writes Ricardo Torres.

  • Che Guevara: We Can Give Our Blood to any American Homeland

    “I believe that all the problems facing our revolution, the vital problems, those that transcend the national peculiarities of each country, encompass the entire American continent.” A 1959 interview with Che Guevara.

  • US Guns Cause Wounds That Won’t Heal

    “If the Border Patrol searched carefully for firearms — which is part of their job — instead of for migrants, we’d all be better off,” says Tania Del Moral.

  • Multiplying the Readers

    Government agencies and sectors of civil society can, and indeed should, contribute to building more and better opportunities that normalize the appeal of reading.

  • SITUAM, A Renewed Actor in the University

    The Metropolitan Autonomous University’s faculty and staff union has broadened the base of democratic decision-making in an institution where unilateral decisions abound.

  • Cuba: A Paradigm in Health, Despite the Blockade

    Cuba’s achievements are noteworthy despite an economic blockade from the US that has lasted more than 65 years, writes Martí Batres.

  • The Inconsistencies of Ebrard

    Mexico’s Secretary of Economy touts a new trade policy of origin over price, yet the import of highly subsidized staple grains benefits US producers at the expense of Mexico’s domestic producers.

  • Business & Obesity

    The weight-loss drug business is as lucrative as obesity itself, and everything remains within the purview of the transnational corporations that make us sick and then offer to cure us.

  • Organized Crime & Capitalism

    Combating transnational organized crime and criminal corporations would mean combating an essential part of the capitalist system, since organized crime is a fundamental mechanism for obtaining profits & accumulating power.

  • 40-hour Workweek: A Handout from Employers That Won’t Improve Workers’ Lives

    With the 40-hour workweek reform, if a worker were to work the 36 extra hours per month at double pay, they would only receive 1,206 pesos more per month than they would under the previous mandatory 48-hour workweek.

  • In Defense of Universal Public Education

    An interview with María de la Luz Arriaga Lemus, a teacher, long-time union activist, co-founder of the Trinational Coalition in Defense of Public Education, the Social Network for Public Education in the Americas, who works with Casa Obrero Socialista Jose Antonio Vital.

  • FIFA’s Cola Cup & Dystopian Horror

    The World Cup’s arrival in Mexico is a stark illustration of the absurdity of the world we’ve reached thanks to the power of large corporations; of the crisis of our current civilization, a society trapped in a power economy, manipulated by addictions.

  • Mexican Politics & Gender Parity

    Since 2019 constitutionally, and since 2025 in practice, Mexico is the only country in the world with parity of women and men in the three branches of government, writes Martí Batres.

  • Miami Weiss: The Peak of Genuflection

    The most striking aspect of Trump’s lumpentreffen is that all of the leaders in attendance use tough-on-crime rhetoric while simultaneously carrying extensive criminal records.

  • Trump Wants Major Surrender from Mexico on USMCA

    Mexico is both at the table and on the menu, as the US pressures Mexico to open up strategic sectors that had been recovered since AMLO’s election.

  • Mexican Public Education at Risk Again

    Marx Arriaga’s firing is a part of an attempt to reverse progress, undo the advances made by AMLO’s administration & to try to privatize and commodify public education once again.

  • The Illusion of Equality

    In stark contrast to the hardships and suffering endured by working women, every country boasts its list of the richest men and its list of the most powerful women, and the profits of the monopolies they head continue to grow obscenely, while our rights regress and our living conditions deteriorate.

  • Morelos On Strike

    Morelos Autonomous University students know that if they don’t protest, the cycle of femicides against young women, whether university students or not, will continue.

  • US Imperialism & Zionism Are the Enemies of Humanity

    As the liberators of our America taught us, from Bolívar to Martí, and as Commanders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez reminded us in their unwavering struggle, the unity of the people is the only force capable of confronting & defeating imperialism.

  • Cuba’s Fall Would Hurt All Radical Projects

    “The US can’t allow this rejection of capitalism and imperialism — [Cuba’s] destruction is the price it must pay for thumbing its nose at the US behemoth.” An interview with Pedro Gellert.

  • US Bombs & US Lies

    US imperialist aggression is based on nearly a century of Western falsehoods against the Persian nation, which began when it attempted to throw off the British colonial yoke.

  • Impacts of US Imperialism’s Illegal War Against Iran on Mexico’s Economy

    The government must rethink its economic policy in order to strengthen the national productive sector, advance import substitution to reduce the foreign trade deficit, and curb capital inflows, thereby becoming less susceptible to the vagaries of international events.

  • A New FOVISSSTE

    During the neoliberal period, Mexico’s state workers housing fund stopped building housing and began issuing predatory loans. Now those loans are being renegotiated for the workers benefit, and even forgiven, writes Martí Batres.

  • No, Trump, “America” is not the US

    An interview with José Luis Granados Ceja on the Progressive International’s Nuestra América conference, the flotilla to Cuba and the obligations of anti-imperialists.

  • Let’s Talk About Migration: Trumpist Persection

    Millions of women who have endured unspeakable violence on their migration journey are now being persecuted in the United States by an extremely xenophobic and misogynistic government, led by Donald Trump,

  • Genocidal & Extractive Capitalism

    This week, the United States claimed to be negotiating to avoid war with Iran. It was merely a cover for a new attack. Where are the efforts to stop it?, asks Mexican Supreme Court Minister Lenia Batres.

  • Trump Will Not Take Our Oil

    Venezuela’s oil belongs to the Bolivarian Republic. Mexican oil belongs to the people of Mexico. If the current administration decides to trade it with Cuba or any other country, it has every right to do so. Mexican oil does not belong to the US nor to Donald Trump.

  • Not By Bread Alone…

    Returning to the Mesoamerican milpa agricutlural system could revitalize agriculture, while defending Mexicans and Mexico from a tangled, global necro-politics.

  • Socialism & Anti-imperialism in Mexico During the 1970s & 1980s

    Widespread anti-imperialist mobilizations served as a pressure mechanism against the subservient and collaborationist policies of regional governments.

  • Concessions, Concessions, Concessions

    The yet-to-be-disclosed 200 mining concessions voluntarily returned to the Mexican state represent less than 1% of the 22,000 currently active, while questions remain about the government’s new strategy.

  • Mexico’s Filthy Rich

    Less than 8 pesos out of every 100 that the rich earn thanks to our collective effort returns to the economy in the form of investment. They are rentiers, clinging to their inherited fortunes, their connections to political & academic power & they extort the State when it threatens even the crumbs they refuse to give us.

  • The Illusion of “Voluntary” Overtime

    Mexico’s workweek debate must focus on the workers who have “phantom” families because their time with their children is consumed by the need to maintain their jobs. It is the two days of rest for these sectors that must be debated.

  • International Rating Agencies Act in Favour of the Financial Sector & Against Mexico’s National Interest

    By questioning the fiscal deficit and public debt, rating agencies and conservatives aim to limit government intervention in the economy, forcing it to restrict spending and investment, making the economy dependent on the investment decisions of the private sector.

  • Two Fronts to Create Panic

    Sunday’s criminal actions were not only intended to hinder the movement of law enforcement, but also to generate panic and anxiety among the civilian population and affect the beneficiaries of government social programs.

  • The Dispute Over Public Education

    Currently, there is no voice with pedagogical authority to respond to the criticisms leveled at the textbooks and explain and justify the necessary modifications. An inexperienced and controversial official like Nadia López García will hardly be able to extinguish this fire.

  • Mexico’s Right Wing Seeks Return to CIDE

    Lab-Co, with former advisors to Bukele and with funding from USAID & the State Department of Marco Rubio, the gusano who is suffocating Cuba & kidnapped a sitting president, is positioning itself at CIDE after the firing of José Romero.

  • The Diabetes-Cola Cup

    In this dystopian world, in the most “Coca-colonized” country on the planet, the construction of toxic advertising environments relies on corruption and the power of large corporations. In the case of FIFA, corruption is an integral part of the institution.

  • Mexico at the Crossroads: Sovereignty, Solidarity, & the Pressure of a Powerful Neighbor

    Mexico is buying time—but the costs of that strategy are rising, writes Teri Mattson.

  • Imperialism: Bankers, Drug Wars & Genocide

    Free trade and privatizations devastated Mexico and produced the workforce, US intelligence services facilitated access to firepower, & US finance capital laundered billions & used drug profits to prop up the capitalist financial system after the 2008 crisis.

  • In Washington’s Shadow

    Thus, Mexico yielded to Washington’s blackmail and extortion, contributing de facto to the devastating US energy blockade against Cuba, significantly eroding what had historically been a unique feature of Mexican diplomacy.

  • The Perverse Incentives of Public-Private Partnerships

    Publicly subsidized, private profitable. The anthem of the upper-tier.

  • Neither Corn Nor Country

    The Fourth Transformation promised food self-sufficiency for Mexico and to rescue agriculture, but heavily-subsidized US imports have never been higher, while farmers go bankrupt and the crisis reaches intolerable levels.

  • A Circus at Mexico’s Education Secretariat

    The dispute is not a fight for the defense of public education, but a brawl between rival power groups for control and the collection of political rents from a pedagogical project that has not yet been born.

  • A Bigger Plan

    López Obrador’s fear of Mexico’s abrupt return to the right still applies today. The Brazilian case is instructive.

  • Mexico Needs a Macroeconomic Policy for Growth, not the Finance Sector

    While the Mexican government attempts to curry favour to receive preferential treatment in USMCA negotiations, it ignores the fact that the Trump administration violates all established international norms and makes decisions only based on US interests.

  • Solidarity with The People of Cuba

    Decisions about Cuba, its present and its future, belong exclusively to its people, writes Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas; while we must firmly condemn the US government’s unilateral coercive measures against that sister nation.

  • A Mexican Conspiracy Against the US?

    An interview with Morena’s Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad, Alejandro Robles, on Peter Schweizer’s dangerous and deluded new conspiracy theory.

  • When Governing Becomes Managing

    Silence can be tactically useful, but it doesn’t resolve underlying tensions. It only postpones them. And when those in power postpone strategic decisions for too long, they end up trapped in their own caution.

  • Predation & Neo-latifundismo

    The government must be very cautious, as the neoliberal regime handed out mining concessions to its predatory cronies like candy, more than half of the national territory ended up in their hands in one way or another.

  • 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.