Everything indicates that the impact of sending 28 million children and adolescents home was not properly assessed in a context where the vast majority of parents do not have the time or resources necessary to adapt to such a significant and sudden change in their routines.
This could be interpreted as a media operation and pressure tactic against the Mexican government, just weeks before the renegotiation of the USMCA.
More than a year and a half into Mexico’s new administration, the assessment is clear: the economic transformation has not taken shape. It is not enough to simply say that the Fourth Transformation continues.
US drug policy in Latin America is just a means to an end: dominance and control, an extension of their imperialist foreign policy, writes José Luis Granados Ceja.
José Jacobo Femat of the Central of Peasant & Popular Organizations, rejects the USMCA entirely, saying free trade agreements have effectively turned Mexico into a colony of US multinationals.
Substantive advances such as wage increases exist alongside serious deficiencies in working conditions & institutions: a lack of labour inspectors, undemocratic unions, growing informality and the privatized pension system.
Despite armed attacks, police collusion & an unsympathetic state (to say the least), the strike at Tornel continues as over a thousand workers square off against an exploitative, aggressive transnational.
The US has not only historically benefited from the labor of millions of migrants; it has built its economic power on them. And Mexico, at the same time, has paid a very high price: loss of productive capacity, rural decline, community uprooting, and dependence on a model that expels people only to turn them into cheap labor.
´No More Foreign Wars’ Means Cuba Too.
There hasn’t been a break with Obradorism, but there’s no orderly direction either. The risk is not to lose votes right away, but to weaken the coalition that made Mexico’s Fourth Transformation possible.