USMCA Review Needs to Include More Than Just Corporate Interests
Mexico’s Economy Secretary Ebrard has cancelled social organization consultations and adopted a rhetoric of supplication towards corporate interests in advance of the USMCA review.
Analysis
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Berdegué, Agribusiness Hatchet Man
With a crippling national farmers strike only one bad meeting away, the government’s disregard for Mexico’s agricultural crisis has a surprising face: its Secretary of Agriculture.
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Classism & Racism in the Era of the Fourth Transformation
In a world where dehumanization, exclusion, persecution of people based on their ethnicity, racism, and classism are exponentially increasing, these practices are not isolated incidents; they are symptoms.
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Communism Without Rifles
The Communist Party of Mexico’s mere existence helps prevent the political landscape from being reduced to a false dilemma between a managed progressivism & an increasingly aggressive right wing.
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Morena is not the PRI of the ’70s
The opposition’s claim that Morena is the PRI of the 70s lacks foundation; the votes with which it won in 2018 and 2024 reflect genuine popular support.
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Mexico SA
Canada has begun to make moves (such as rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China), but Mexico is clinging to the USMCA: all its eggs in one basket, something that, given the frenzied dynamic imposed by Trump, doesn’t seem to be the wisest course of action.
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No Happy Ending for 2025
If public investment continues to decline, the economy & employment will be highly vulnerable, and the foundations for sustained growth will not be laid. At best, we will remain a vast assembly plant; at worst, a country without decent employment opportunities.
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Why Chicanas & Chicanos Must Defend Venezuela
Simultaneous attacks on Venezuela and our communities via the criminal actions of ICE and the Border Patrol expose the twin pillars of the Trump/MAGA project.
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Old Wine, New Bottles?
While the share of wages in national income has increased in Mexico, trade liberalization, displacement of domestic production by imports, high interest rates & waning public spending hamper growth & maintain continuity with the much-maligned neoliberal period.
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Canada Moves to China, What About Mexico?
While it might have been argued until recently that countries like Brazil possess unparalleled geographical, historical, & economic advantages [compared to Mexico], Carney’s recent visit to China invalidates this interpretation.
