SOBERANÍA 19 – ELECTORAL LAWFARE
The Mexican right wing attempt to steal Morena’s legislative supermajority through electoral lawfare, PAN confesses what we always knew wall along, and Tim Golden’s latest DEA sourced hit piece in ProPublica.
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Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left
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.
CLICKS JULY 22
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US unions decry Caterpillar move to Mexico, multipolar opportunities, agroecology, Trump & Mexico, ongoing revival of passenger rail, Mexican humanism, China & Mexican green energy cooperation, the curse of water privatization, Canadian mining crimes, corn dispute.
Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike
An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.
The Terrible Ignorance of Norma Piña
Much to the consternation of relics of the neoliberal order like Supreme Court President Norma Piña, more than 80% of Mexicans back a major change to the judiciary, blackened with a legacy of widespread accusations of corruption, questionable rulings and failing to deliver justice to victims.
SOBERANÍA 18 – Will MAGA Reloaded Set its Sights on Mexico?
What are the potential consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency for Mexico? Also, Morena’s overhaul of the judiciary, new tariffs on Chinese metals and greenwashing propaganda from The Guardian.
CLICKS JULY 15
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Communism coming to Mexico soon warns Bishop, energy reforms, steel tarrifs, rising wages for unionized workers, tech corp profiteering and the border issue.
‘The Coup’ at Ford: Political Intrigue Across Borders
“US labor was on the wrong side of history. And that’s the truth.” An interview with Rob McKenzie on US complicity in the 1990 murder of Mexican workers.
SOBERANÍA 17 – Fishy Financing at Anti-AMLO Outlet ‘Latinus’
Soberanía dives into the criminal investigation of the funding of a far-right propaganda outlet, Morena’s controversies surrounding Sergio Mayer and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, and President-elect Sheinbaum’s cabinet picks.
Innuendoes, Distortions, Omissions and Blatant Lies by NACLA
A substantial part of the “character assassination” includes a torrent of innuendoes, guilt by association, and plenty of other tricky ambiguities aimed at allegedly “demonstrating” the long-term connection, if not association, between AMLO and narco-traffickers since at least 2006.