Behind the “Gen Z” March: 90 Million Pesos, Foreign Activists, Mexican Politicians & Businessmen
Familiar, aged faces from Mexico’s right wing opposition collaborated with the international right wing.
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The Crisis in the Mexican Countryside
Environmental deregulation, rural abandonment, speculative pricing, and the prioritization of property rights over human rights were central tenets of neoliberal economic policy, whose impact on Mexican farmers is now a subject of reflection in our country.
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Mexican Delegation in Washington to Fight USMCA Capitulation
It is more urgent than ever to understand and address the threat posed by transnational capital since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. The USMCA, although it has a different name and some modifications, still represents a threat to our national sovereignty and the self-determination of our peoples.
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Cracked Actor
Marco Rubio is the broken mask of a decaying empire that, unable to maintain its hegemony through consensus, resorts to theatrical punishment, with weapons and “tariffs.”
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Desperate Times
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” march, heavily publicized by the ultra-right wing & corporate media, featured the same old geriatric gentry, with the new addition of a violent shock group.
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Mexico’s Curiously Elderly Gen-Z March
More geriatric than Gen-Z, the violence at yesterday’s astro-turfed right wing march by a shock group marked another sad degeneration for Mexico’s feckless right wing opposition.
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80 Years of the World Federation of Democratic Youth
Youth require prospects for radical transformation to confront the course of war marked by imperialism, which has already demonstrated its willingness to exercise the same barbarity as the 20th century in the Gaza Strip.
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Clicks November 15
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including declining possibility of anti-China tariffs, Salinas Pliego’s tax debt, unequal transfer, Cuauhtémoc’s death, artists vs ICE, casinos & money laundering, the unbearable Christopher Landau, 4T & public media, new Colosio suspect, and GM in San Luis Potosí.
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People’s Mañanera November 14
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Mexico state repaving, bean fair, tourism growth, Grupo Salinas tax debts, astro-turfed Gen Z march, Rubio, Colosio case, & the violent Calderón era.
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Marx at the Margins
Fourteen years later, Kevin Anderson’s seminal work is finally available in Spanish, essential reading in times of genocide & climate crisis, revealing a Marx more aligned with the questions of Global South struggle than his academic caricature.
