Vulcan: Mexico’s Victory
Vulcan plundered the Riviera Maya for decades, then demanded $1.9 billion from Mexico in a corporate tribunal and still lost. AMLO ended the mining operations and declared the site a protected natural area.
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The Social Sector of the Economy: The Missing Piece Facing the Market
“The social sector represents all those forms that do not compulsively pursue the objectives of the capitalist economy. They have as their antecedent all the community and cooperative forms that have not been able to be subsumed under the logic of profit”
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The Right’s Strategy to Destabilize Mexico; the American Society Case
Nancy Flores reports how Larry Rubin, the dual US-Mexican citizen heading the American Society of Mexico, united opposition and corporate media behind the “narco-government” line.
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The Communities That Held Venezuela Together
After the June 24 earthquakes flattened La Guaira, the communal councils Venezuela built years earlier became the relief network sanctions couldn’t stop.
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If USMCA Disappears in the Next Decade, It Would Be the End of Economic Liberalization
Ahead of the July 20 USMCA review, UAM economist Carolina Hernández Calvario argues Mexico’s development project would outlive free trade, urging “strategic anticipation.”
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Hugo Eric Flores and the Evangelical Far Right
Hugo Eric Flores launches PAZ, his third evangelical party; a career opportunist who has passed through the PRI, the PAN, and Morena, always to hand the evangelical vote a party.
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Somos MX and the Media: Does Mexico’s New Party Revolve Around Salinas Pliego?
Somos MX, a new opposition party to Morena, is built less on a social base than on Mexico’s media oligarchy, including allies of magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
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When a Certain Argentine Right Hates Mexicans
“There is no spontaneous Argentine-Mexican conflict; there is a transnational circulation of narratives produced by influence networks, media, and algorithms that turn any disagreement between leaders into antagonism between peoples.”
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US Agencies, Especially the CIA, Pressure Mexico’s Sovereignty
Four US agents caught in Chihuahua exposed illegal intelligence on Mexican soil, reopening the debate over the CIA’s reach and Mexico’s sovereignty.
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Colombia’s Left After the 2026 Election: Defeat, Renewal, and the Future of the Pink Tide
A razor-thin conservative victory has not ended Colombia’s progressive movement. Organizers, unions, students, and community groups are already preparing for the next four years.
