A Revolution in the Judiciary
Appeals to international courts remain pending, but they cannot overturn Mexico’s judicial reform and will have no more value than a declaration; they cannot oppose the sovereign decision to elect the judiciary.
Analysis
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The Project That Was Never “A Danger to Mexico”
The myths that have been in public debate for more than twenty years about the economic danger represented by the Fourth Transformation should forever be put to rest.
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Madrid Feigns Independence, to the Rhythm of Gloria Estefan
Today, Spain’s economic elites are now the economic elites of Madrid, whose focus of reflection and action is always Madrid, a city they aspire to position as a global capital and which lures the insipid politicos of the Latin American right-wing.
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Plan or Perish: Mexico Facing Global Reindustrialization
Mexico must move beyond pursuing foreign investment and the USMCA, which only serves US interests: it requires a centralized body capable of planning and coordinating public investment and national development.
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The Unhinged United States of America
The grotesque Trumpist cabinet – and the American ruling class – continue to exhibit hypocrisy, violence and transparently imperial thinking that threaten not just Latin America’s sovereignty, but the lives of the inhabitants of the entire planet.
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An Electoral Reform That Democratizes Public Life
Mexico’s upcoming electoral reform should ensure that the internal functioning of political parties is genuinely democratic, to transform them into organizations which promote and support social struggles to resolve common problems.
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DEA: Mendacity & Provocation
The DEA and other Washington agencies fail to understand Mexico has changed and they will no longer find the obsequious silence that once allowed them to do and say as they please.
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1977’s Electoral Reform & The Left
Democratization is always an unfinished and perfectible process: the new electoral reform allows us to look back at past demands to help formulating new forms of political representation that allow for the democratic exercise of majorities and guarantee effective conditions for the contestation of power.
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The Future of the Fourth Transformation: Plebeian Assault or Pseudo-Technocratization?
The establishment of Morena’s Sectional Committees for the Defense of the Transformation is promising, but internal rules continue to restrict fundamental rights, potentially turning the committees into mere instruments of mobilization without political representation.
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The Role of Economists in National Transformations
Mexican political economy has always advanced along with Mexican society, and with a radical critique, from the independence period to its role in the pedagogical transformation of Mexico in the post-revolutionary period.
