Raising Wages: a Tool for Economic Development
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
Author: Meizhu Lui
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Monroe to Donroe
An interview with CODEPINK’s Teri Mattson on US foreign policy in Latin America & the Caribbean.
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Sheinbaum: Universal Healthcare for All?
Nearly two years into President Sheinbaum’s term, the gap between announcement & real implementation is still wide; universal healthcare cannot be achieved in the current conditions of chronic underfunding.
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Restore Campesino Rights, Reject the USMCA
José Jacobo Femat of the Central of Peasant & Popular Organizations, rejects the USMCA entirely, saying free trade agreements have effectively turned Mexico into a colony of US multinationals.
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Cinco de Mayo: The Chicano Holiday
US alcohol corporations have largely coopted this holiday, marketing it as an occasion to party, not to celebrate an anti-imperialist victory, much less motivate the Chicano people’s ongoing struggle against racism and national oppression.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
