Responding to Ramón Centeno in Sidecar, Jesús Hermosillo writes that while Mexico’s president is no Marxist, one result of what Centeno says is his “populist idiom of confrontation between ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’” has been the seeding of a new class-based political consciousness.
José Granados Ceja of the Mexico Solidarity Project joins Bill Fletcher Jr. for a live discussion on MORENA’s political role in the context of Mexico’s recent history.
An interview with Carlos Marentes, a farm labor organizer and advocate for many decades.
Recent Republican bluster about a possible US ground invasion in Mexico to go after drug cartels remains on the fringe. But as bipartisan support for the border wall shows, far-fetched ideas can quickly become plausible in the run-up to a presidential election.
Kurt Hackbarth, Jacobin’s Mexico correspondent and member of México Solidarity Media speaks about México’s falling poverty rate, how the New York Times lies, and the opposition neoliberal candidate Xóchitl Gálvez.
The so-called “defense of the INE” has become the rallying cry of an opposition incapable of winning broad public support.