SPINACH IN THE SPAGHETTI
The multidisciplinary artist Einnar Dante Espinosa, known to many as Pinche Einnar, says his understanding of capitalism started with Batman.
Analysis
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ARE YOU WITH THE TEACHERS OR WITH THE BANKS?
Teachers’ pensions provide private banks massive profits in the form of commissions, they fund the investments the banks make in their own businesses, and the profits the banks make from usurious activity with other people’s money. What public benefits would there be if the system was de-privatized?
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MAGISTERIUM PLAINS RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
Mexican teachers face the enormous power of finance capital and a neoliberal retirement system, owned by major banks, the true right wing of this country, which the government refuses to touch with even a single tax.
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MEDIA CRIMINALIZATION
While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.
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THE LAW IS NOT THE SAME AS JUSTICE
An interview with Supreme Court candidate Federico Anaya Gallardo
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TEACHERS’ RESISTANCE
In the days of Porfirio Díaz, a soldier earned 90 pesos and a teacher barely 40: even today, such a disparity is clear, a new teacher earns 8,000 pesos and a new soldier 12,000.
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DESPAIR & NOSTALGIA
As the government’s social programs and security strategy produce results, organized crime groups must be feeling a potent (and dangerous) mixture of despair and nostalgia.
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THE 1935 FORMULA FOR 2025?
Why does a well-positioned President like Sheinbaum today want or need “operators” who emerged from the PRI or in equally reprehensible environments, and what lessons does Cárdenas’ experience in 1935 have here?
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LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BARRICADES
An interview with Rafael Barajas Durán, El Fisgón, the cartoonist on political humour and political education.
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THE TRUMP DOCTRINE
Given that Trump’s use of soft power has the threat of “hard power” behind it, Mexico should orient its foreign policy away from the unreliable US and look instead to the Global South.
