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.
“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.
“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.
“The ultraconservative US elite that governs that divided country” engages in “fierce belittling and devaluation of the Mexican,” warns Linares Zapata.
“The Burgos Basin and the north of the country are to Mexico what the Orinoco Belt is to Venezuela,” writes García Fernández.
Nancy Flores digs into declassified emails showing the DEA let fentanyl ‘walk’ New Mexico streets, echoing the ATF’s Fast and Furious guns to the Sinaloa Cartel a decade earlier.
We interviewed Dr. Pedro Salmerón for our weekly bulletin to talk about Mexican Independence: “Like the nomads of Mongolia, they all moved together. Women participated directly.”
In part one of his paper, Luke Pickrell explores Mexico’s Supreme Court during the neoliberal period and argues it was made to serve the elite rather than the people.
In her Second Government Report, President Sheinbaum frames defending Mexico’s sovereignty —territorial, energy, food, financial, commercial, health, scientific, and even space— as essential to preserving the nation’s freedoms.
Felipe Ávila, who heads Mexico’s institute for the history of its revolutions, recounts how the 11-year war of independence abolished slavery and the caste system to found a free, sovereign nation.