Throughout the Cold War and beyond, US imperialism used development plans, charitable foundations, NGOs and the funding of public and private universities to produce a pseudo-progressive, anti-communist reformist sociology capable of halting and diverting Latin America’s revolutionary impulse.
The continuation of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation depends on what AMLO refered to as the revolution of consciences, in which political education plays a key role.
Two Americans (one Democrat, one Republican) and a convicted rapist are launching the Mexico Republicano party to support Trump and US intervention in Mexico. Their opening political event with the US Ambassador last week included Morena members.
The dollar operates as capitalism’s penal code, condemning people to empty shelves, underfunded hospitals, and indebted households; and it is legitimized by the complicity of elites who act as ventriloquists for imperialism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Healthcare can no longer be treated as a business. It’s time to rebuild what was dismantled.