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.
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The United States: Between Interference and the ‘Fight’ Against Drugs
The State Department’s INL bureau spent $819.8M in Mexico under AMLO, funding SAT-flagged NGOs and Venezuelan coup-plotters behind Bukele’s territorial-control plan.
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The Specter of the Far Right in Latin America
Economist Óscar David Rojas Silva reads Milei, Noboa and de la Espriella as proxies of a declining US empire—and maps how the left can answer.
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Scientific Commission’s Report on Fracking Is Not Conclusive
UNAM’s Fabio Barbosa says the commission still hasn’t found viable low-water fracking tech; Carlos Slim calls the business ‘irrational.’
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FIFA: Corporate State with Market Immunity
FIFA captures sovereign territory through tax exemptions and free infrastructure use; Peña Nieto’s irrevocable concessions shield 2026 World Cup contracts.
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Utopía — or Dystopia? Socialism — or Barbarism?
Ashwin Ravikumar of DSA’s Mexico Solidarity Working Group on Iztapalapa’s 16 Utopías — community centers showing what ‘re-socializing the commons’ can look like.
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Defending Mexico’s Sovereignty, the Principal Task of the Left in the Face of Imperialism’s War
Defending sovereignty is now the principal task of Mexico’s left, argues Josafat Hernández, as Trump, rating agencies and the far right besiege the 4T.
