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Analysis
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Mexican National Farmers Strike for Food Sovereignty
Progress toward food sovereignty requires policies that protect, regulate, and promote the responsibility of the State. Maintaining the mistaken notion that these are goodwill aid packages given to farmers and agricultural producers only when budgetary resources are available will deepen the agricultural crisis and increase food dependency.
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The Return of the Farmers
The fact that the authorities have spoken with the farmers doesn’t mean their demands have been met. Caught between the fire of the USMCA and the wall of public policies that strangle or abandon them, they are fighting for their survival.
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Struggles of the Women’s Secretariat: From Combating Femicide to Political Violence
An interview with Mexico’s Secretary for Women, Citlalli Hernández Mora.
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Committee on Enforced Disappearances: An Inadmissible Application
Those who seek to subject Mexico to external oversight raise strong suspicions that there are ulterior motives and interests behind the request that they dare not make public.
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“The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.”
The Mexico Embraces You program has responded well by offering social support to returning Mexicans, but a clear strategy is needed.
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Without a Project & Leadership
Mexico avoids straining relations and, at the same time, avoids pursuing an industrial policy that might affect established interests, particularly those of large transnational corporations. External constraints & internal indecisiveness reinforce each other.
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Mexican Hawaiians, Paniolos and Planters
Sonora-born coffee grower Armando Rodriguez now calls Hawaii his home: carrying on a tradition since the early 1800s, when King Kamehameha welcomed vaqueros, or paniolos, to the island to train horses & breed cattle.
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Mexico Requires a Deterrence Strategy
Mexico should continue to work at maintaining a positive relationship with our closest neighbor and number one trading partner. But acting like Trump isn’t capable of unilateral military action against us is foolish.
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The Hidden Connections Between the Ukrainian Military & Drug Cartels
It is difficult to believe that European intelligence services, which rigorously monitor arms trafficking, would ignore the flow of weapons & drones into the Americas.
