Mexico Owns the Water. Who Can Use It?
From the poisoned Santiago River to the 1992 law that turned water into a commodity, Luis Eugenio Parés explains what it will take to make water a right again in an exclusive interview from our latest bulletin.
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PRI Members, Businessmen and Bankers, the Biggest Beneficiaries of Fobaproa
“The same banks that were saved in 1995 are, today, in their ordinary role as investors, collectors of the servicing of that same debt,” charges Rojas Silva in Contralínea.
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The Meaning of October 12
“Those lands were not empty, since they were populated by millions of native inhabitants who had lived on them for millennia,” notes Felipe Ávila.
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Mexican Book Fairs
“Book fairs in Mexico are among the great gatherings that speak of how a people nourishes itself on books,” observes Poniatowska.
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Provoke AMLO
“That old man they give up for dead will return to the plazas if necessary. Get ready, because he has the strength to travel the country once more,” warns Páez Varela.
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Fernando Cerimedo’s International Network Includes the PRI and Sí por México
In Contralínea, Aníbal García Fernández shows how Cerimedo’s network reaches Mexico’s right-wing opposition, through the man who ran an anti-Morena group’s social media.
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Judicial Reform in Mexico: Morena, the Opposition, and How History Was Made
In part two of his paper, Luke Pickrell examines Mexico’s historic 2024 judicial reform: how Morena built mass trust while the PRI and PAN collapsed under neoliberalism and a failed drug war.
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Afro-Descendants in the Independence
“Guerrero’s army was made up mostly of Black and mulato men who made possible the triumph of the insurgent cause,” writes Felipe Ávila, director of Mexico’s National Institute of Historical Studies of the Revolutions.
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Labor Rights Are Human Rights
“Now, the companies hire thugs, some connected to cartels, to intimidate workers,” warns Meizhu Lui, co-founder of the Mexico Solidarity Project, in our latest bulletin, urging Mexico to recognize labor rights as human rights.
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Dignity and Sovereignty
“The ultraconservative US elite that governs that divided country” engages in “fierce belittling and devaluation of the Mexican,” warns Linares Zapata.
