The Transnational Corn Market
Without state regulation and as a result of “free trade”, transnational corporations are increasingly controlling the basic food market and imperiling Mexican food sovereignty.
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People’s Mañanera December 23
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on travel across the country, ENCODAT, cardiac care, new ISSSSTE clinics, Texas navy accident, economic activity, and scrapping the video game tax.
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Mexican Unions Formerly Affiliated with PRI are now with MORENA
President Sheinbaum has rejected corporatism and the bussing in of supporters, yet charro unions maintain a massive presence at government events in the Mexico City’s Zócalo.
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Land of the Godínez: Work, Obedience & Dispossession in Contemporary Mexico
José Baroja’s satire is, in reality, pure sociology: the expression of an economic order & labour regime in Mexico that normalizes long hours, insufficient wages, constant evaluations, identity loss and the sacrifice of a personal life.
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Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City
Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.
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President Sheinbaum: Mexico Ships Oil to Cuba for Humanitarian Reasons
The President recalled decades of solidarity with Cuba, recalling that Mexico was the only country that opposed the US blockade on the island from the outset.
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The Poor as Instruments, Not Allies
Welfare programs with political aims are not the same as forging political alliances with the impoverished population created by voracious neoliberal capitalism.
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Florida, the Race for the Presidency & Opaque Capital
Contemporary Florida is the distorted and advanced mirror of a new form of global governance, where money laundering has not only been tolerated, but institutionalized & updated for the digital age, fed by a murky river flowing from the Global South.
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People’s Mañanera December 22
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on economic achievements, Sonora development plan, extortion of immigrants, Baja California Sur dam, water treaty with US, nepotism loopholes, and García Luna.
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The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
The entire Venezuelan people are showing courage in defending their sovereignty, writes MORENA deputy Magdalena Rosales Cruz.
