CHAPULINES & GOVERNING FROM THE LEFT
It’s not bad that Morena is growing. What’s bad is that some people are joining without assuming the responsibilities that come with a left-wing project.
It’s not bad that Morena is growing. What’s bad is that some people are joining without assuming the responsibilities that come with a left-wing project.
For immigrants in the US living without documentation, it’s also much like living underground, imprisoned in a cage of fear. Luisa Martinez of the DSA’ National Political Committee tells us what that was like for a young woman desperately wanting to make something better of her life.
A working class that is divided, both within the U.S. and across North America, is easier to exploit. Corporations have greatly profited from our divisions over the three decades since NAFTA was enacted.
Elon Musk wants drone strikes in Mexico. Claudia Sheinbaum has responded by proposing two reforms aimed at toughening the defense of sovereignty in the constitution and imposing the harshest penalties on foreigners involved in activities that infringe on Mexican sovereignty.
The current affairs program, a break-out hit for the Mexican public TV station Canal Once, is now available in English.
Constitutional reforms to protect Mexican sovereignty from imperialism, Trump at CPAC, MORENA deputy connected to punitive collections legislation that would benefit family, SOUTHCOM, DEA wants cartels to focus on the classic drugs & more in our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico.
What are the implications for Mexico of hardliner Terry Cole being nominated to lead the scandal-racked DEA, and analyzing the USAID’s historic role as a soft-power arm of empire.
Trump and Latin America, labour unions and Sheinbaum, lawsuits against US gunmakers, subcontracting, Indigenous resistance, the PT and Morena relationship & more in our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico.
Mexico wants to become a silicon powerhouse, build a million homes, and defend its sovereignty. We look at Kutzari, National Semiconductor Design Center, housing plans and the development model that is keeping inflation and unemployment down.
Following a successful negotiation by President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump walked back his executive order imposing 25% tariffs on Mexico.