Mexico’s new audience rights law exposes corporate media’s phony ‘censorship’ cry, the UNAM admissions exam melts down under a private contractor, and Brazil defies Washington in an escalating visa dispute.
Mexico shines at the World Cup and welcomes Iran, the right recycles itself with Somos México and a rebooted PAN, and the New York Times peddles an anonymous-source smear against Morena.
Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.
Leonardo Toledo, a scholar from Chiapas explains how cartel conflict and a glut of weapons are creating a perfect storm in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state and birthplace of the Zapatistas.
The latest in a series of clockwork, election-timed hits against AMLO, this time by the New York Times, is the biggest nothing-burger yet.
The US website Pro Publica’s laundering of allegations in a now-closed, almost two-decades old DEA investigation betrays the brittleness of its construction.
Bolivia has severed diplomatic relations with Israel, and Colombia, Chile, and Honduras have all recalled their ambassadors. Latin America is leading the way in opposing Israel’s war on Gaza.
Recent Republican bluster about a possible US ground invasion in Mexico to go after drug cartels remains on the fringe. But as bipartisan support for the border wall shows, far-fetched ideas can quickly become plausible in the run-up to a presidential election.
Kurt Hackbarth, Jacobin’s Mexico correspondent and member of México Solidarity Media speaks about México’s falling poverty rate, how the New York Times lies, and the opposition neoliberal candidate Xóchitl Gálvez.