The academics asked if Mexico wants to be known as a country which defends the free self-determination of all peoples, or if it will be among the cowards who dared not fight to build a better future for all.
The popular anti-imperialist podcast returns with Teri Mattson, Alina Duarte and Marco Castillo discussing the ongoing and forthcoming issues with the US-Mexico relationship.
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including judicial elections, teachers strike, murder of two Morena staffers in Mexico City, battle for union at GM plant, remittances and gringos buying up real estate.
While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.
An interview with Supreme Court candidate Federico Anaya Gallardo
In the days of Porfirio Díaz, a soldier earned 90 pesos and a teacher barely 40: even today, such a disparity is clear, a new teacher earns 8,000 pesos and a new soldier 12,000.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on García Luna & Wife owing Mexico US$2.49 Billion, park concession expropriated, Calderón’s blathering, canceling meeting with striking teachers, remittances, energy reform, judicial elections, and the new telecommunications law.
As the government’s social programs and security strategy produce results, organized crime groups must be feeling a potent (and dangerous) mixture of despair and nostalgia.
The Parque Bicentenario concession, previously privatized by the Peña Nieto government, will return to public hands, with the Secretary of Culture and CDMX government ensuring there are no corporate events.
Why does a well-positioned President like Sheinbaum today want or need “operators” who emerged from the PRI or in equally reprehensible environments, and what lessons does Cárdenas’ experience in 1935 have here?