Talking about Tren Maya: The Facts, Please
What’s missing in mainstream English language coverage of the Maya Train? Real data and the voices of the impoverished people in Mexico’s South.
Author: Jesús Hermosillo
Mexico Implements ‘Historic’ 20% Minimum-Wage Hike
The announcement fulfills President López Obrador’s campaign promise to double the minimum wage rate in real terms.
A Beacon of Hope: Response to “The Mexican Question”
Responding to Ramón Centeno in Sidecar, Jesús Hermosillo writes that while Mexico’s president is no Marxist, one result of what Centeno says is his “populist idiom of confrontation between ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’” has been the seeding of a new class-based political consciousness.