DEA: Mendacity & Provocation
The DEA and other Washington agencies fail to understand Mexico has changed and they will no longer find the obsequious silence that once allowed them to do and say as they please.
Analysis
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1977’s Electoral Reform & The Left
Democratization is always an unfinished and perfectible process: the new electoral reform allows us to look back at past demands to help formulating new forms of political representation that allow for the democratic exercise of majorities and guarantee effective conditions for the contestation of power.
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The Future of the Fourth Transformation: Plebeian Assault or Pseudo-Technocratization?
The establishment of Morena’s Sectional Committees for the Defense of the Transformation is promising, but internal rules continue to restrict fundamental rights, potentially turning the committees into mere instruments of mobilization without political representation.
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The Role of Economists in National Transformations
Mexican political economy has always advanced along with Mexican society, and with a radical critique, from the independence period to its role in the pedagogical transformation of Mexico in the post-revolutionary period.
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The Neoliberal Court Evaporates Without Applause
For three decades, Mexico’s Supreme Court and the entire federal judiciary acted in favor of political, economic, media, and intellectual elites with decisions that led to its discredit as an insensitive and corrupt institution.
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“Mexico’s healthcare system is good, and we aspire to improve it.”
“I used to practice private medicine, but it doesn’t solve the country’s health problem. A well-developed, strong public sector is needed,” says David Kershenobich, Mexican Secretary of Health.
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Mexicans, At the Cry of War
President Sheinbaum finds herself at the center of a diplomatic dispute: while she has defended Mexico’s sovereignty with her stance of “coordination yes, subordination no,” the facts suggest this line is constantly blurring.
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PEMEX: Why Lázaro Cárdenas Created Mexico’s State Oil Company
The Mexican President’s daring move to place the oil industry under public control in 1938 was based on the precepts of Mexico’s Revolution and was a critical expression of Mexican sovereignty.
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Paying Tribute
The surrender of drug lords and criminals that has been carried out, in a completely illegal manner, is already a form of surrender, of capitulation to the United States, something never seen before.
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Cárdenas, in the Crosshairs of the Cold War
Despite criticism and state surveillance, former President Lázaro Cárdenas’ post-war return to public life was intertwined with his deep solidarity with, and affinity for, the Cuban Revolution.
