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.”
Gestures of genuine solidarity also involve getting to know a little more about those about whom we speak and opine ad nauseam.
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.
The task of the Fourth Transformation and the Mexican people is to maintain popular protagonism, permanently building democratic elements to organize the economy as processes of economic deglobalization begin or deepen.
Democratization is always an unfinished and perfectible process: the new electoral reform allows us to look back at past demands to help formulating new forms of political representation that allow for the democratic exercise of majorities and guarantee effective conditions for the contestation of power.