Guerrero’s Montaña Baja & the Siego of Micro-criminality
The arrival of mining companies in the area represents a benefit for criminal groups that impose fees & extortion to allow the extraction and transport of minerals.
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Inflation & Subsidies
To create an environment of economic growth with low inflation, financial stability, and high employment, economic policy must stop favoring the financial sector and instead focus on Mexico’s productive sector and employment.
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Women & Gaza: “If They Touch One of Us, We All Respond”
This is a pledge of international solidarity that connects the women resisting in Mexico with those sustaining life in Palestine.
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Messages in Morena’s New Leadership
Presidential verticalism is being maintained, but Montiel’s appointment brings a greater knowledge of popular demands and political mobilization tactics.
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The World Cup: Screens & Stamps for the Poor
In each match, Mexico, Colombia, or Brazil don’t win; instead, the multimillion-dollar profits of FIFA executives & the owners of corporations associated with the industrial, commercial, financial, and communications complex grow enormously.
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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.
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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.
