The Return of Fox & Calderón Exposes Mexican Far Right’s Misguided Path
The Mexican right is going through a crisis, increasingly closer to international far-right sectors and further from a political proposal capable of competing.
The Mexican right is going through a crisis, increasingly closer to international far-right sectors and further from a political proposal capable of competing.
Ambassador Ronald Johnson is a former Green Beret and CIA agent.
The teachers’ national strike centers around demands to end the privatized pensions built on the Pinochet model, a dignified retirement, & for President Sheinbaum to keep her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law.
Remarks delivered at Mexico City’s Monument to the Revolution by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
In a tense political context, fueled by pressure from the US, exacerbated by the ever-consolidating power of elites, & further exacerbated by internal divisions within the ruling party and the costs of its pragmatic alliances, we must not ignore the legitimate, simmering social discontent that is resurfacing.
The blockade is in response to the murder of teacher Felipe de Jesús Martínez and the serious injuries of another, Adelaida Zacarías Pascual, after an attack in Pómaro yesterday.
This scheme of free fares and free transfers serves as a tool to support the family economy of vulnerable groups.
The arrival of mining companies in the area represents a benefit for criminal groups that impose fees & extortion to allow the extraction and transport of minerals.
This figure represents a decrease of 3.2 percentage points compared to the same period of the previous year, according to INEGI.
The teachers were found only one day after a Morena mayor organized a shock group which shot at striking teachers and kidnapped 15 of them in neighbouring Oaxaca.