Raising Wages: a Tool for Economic Development
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
Analysis
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CNTE: A Media Manual for Inciting Hatred
We have returned to the stage of prioritizing lies over a minimum exercise of truthfulness, wrote Jenaro Villamil in 2013. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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AMLO Speaks, Los Angeles Times Leaks
The truth is that these kinds of leaks often serve to foreshadow government operations carried out by US intelligence agencies to test the waters, warn, and prepare the ground.
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The Left That Learned to Distribute, But Not Produce
Mexico faces a historical contradiction: it has a government that speaks as if it has broken with neoliberalism, yet it retains too many of the economic structures that neoliberalism left untouched. It has rhetoric of sovereignty, but financial dependence.
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Mexico 2026: The Protests Behind the World Cup
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.
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Guerrero’s Montaña Baja & the Siego of Micro-criminality
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.
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Inflation & Subsidies
To create an environment of economic growth with low inflation, financial stability, and high employment, economic policy must stop favoring the financial sector and instead focus on Mexico’s productive sector and employment.
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Women & Gaza: “If They Touch One of Us, We All Respond”
This is a pledge of international solidarity that connects the women resisting in Mexico with those sustaining life in Palestine.
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Messages in Morena’s New Leadership
Presidential verticalism is being maintained, but Montiel’s appointment brings a greater knowledge of popular demands and political mobilization tactics.
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The World Cup: Screens & Stamps for the Poor
In each match, Mexico, Colombia, or Brazil don’t win; instead, the multimillion-dollar profits of FIFA executives & the owners of corporations associated with the industrial, commercial, financial, and communications complex grow enormously.
