Withering on the Vine
The Mexican government decided to negotiate with the US from the moment Trump first announced his tariffs, and months later, the achievements are nothing to brag about.
Analysis
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Don Trump
For Mexico, American society and its government are disastrous. Whether there is an agreement now or not, we don’t have to compromise with them forever. Even less so if many of the US’s furious gestures are an expression of its ongoing demise as a dominant power.
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Sovereignty is not Decreed, It is Manufactured
The narrative of integration is over. The old dream of lasting cooperation with the US has died. Mexico must stop waiting and start building sovereignty.
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Lake Texcoco: Life’s Triumph
The cancelation of the airport & survival of Lake Texcoco is to be welcomed, but environmental triumphs must be reinforced through education, awareness of rights, and mobilization against those who put private profit above the common good.
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The Left’s Missing Strategic Horizon
Figures like Zohran Mamdani and Jeanette Jara are merely fireworks intended to keep afloat a rickety left wing which has lost all strategic depth, incapable of advancing past fleeting tactical maneuvers that change nothing and are quickly forgotten.
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Health Sovereignty: From Profit-Driven Disorganization to Public Reconstruction
Healthcare can no longer be treated as a business. It’s time to rebuild what was dismantled.
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The Fight for Water & Land
Even after one revolution, and the two significant reforms of Cárdenas and of López Obrador, the struggle for water and land continues to divide the interests of peasant communities and the large monopolies who profit from them.
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This House is not a Hotel
Gentrification proceeds through every day developments, causing prices ito skyrocket, and what was once a territory of urban resistance becomes a tourist showcase and, ultimately, a territory of expulsion.
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Solidarity, Greed & the State
Social predators like Diego Fernández, Salinas Pliego, and Germán Larrea, who arose in the neoliberal period but continue to prosper under the Fourth Transformation, point towards a pressing need: to decommodify large sectors of Mexican society.
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BRICS: A Positive Contrast
Mexico’s current level of dependence on US imperialism is the product of decisions made more than three decades ago by the architects of neoliberalism. The BRICS Summit signals that Mexico needs to look south to build a sustainable economy and guarantee its long-term sovereignty.
