International Rating Agencies are Acting Against State Involvement in Mexico’s Economy
Weak economic growth is a direct result of the rating agencies’ own recommendations that Mexico should restrict public spending & investment.
Analysis
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Taxation & Investment
Mexico’s prolonged neoliberal era confirms a public and private drought of investment in the context of a deficient tax system that doesn’t raise more than 11 to 13 percent of GDP.
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Fracking: A False Solution for Mexico
Every peso spent on prolonging gas dependency is a peso not invested in electricity transmission, battery storage, distributed solar generation, wind power, energy efficiency, demand management, or grid modernization.
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Monroe to Donroe
An interview with CODEPINK’s Teri Mattson on US foreign policy in Latin America & the Caribbean.
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The Triple Meaning of Latin American Marxism
Latin American Marxism cannot justify itself as a mere critical theory of capitalism and bourgeois society as a whole, since Marxist critique entails a propositional character regarding what has been called communism or a classless society, the precursor of which is socialism.
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The USMCA Has A Project. Mexico Doesn’t.
The United States knows what it wants from Mexico. The uncomfortable question is whether Mexico knows what it wants from itself.
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Comfort & Boldness in the Fourth Transformation
If for years we let the Americans tell us who our criminals were and pressured us to arrest them; if we gave them extraordinary power out of a lack of will or courage, then no one should be surprised that this nation, always expansive and always lurking, now uses that power as it pleases.
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Parades, Petitions, Treason & Chihuahua’s Gringa Governor
Demonstrations are useless in these cases; even less so the collection of signatures and the “analysis of all possibilities” by Mexico’s wise legislators, which only delay action against a treasonous Governor.
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Drugs, War & Intervention
It will be necessary to build upon the popular, Mexican accumulated experience to develop a national strategy that offers an alternative to the US military approach, which promises only more drugs, war, and intervention.
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Against Chihuahua Governor Campos, Now. No Excuses or Delays.
Justice cannot be contingent on underhanded “agreements,” especially in a case of constitutional violation.
