Tribute to Guerrilla Lucio Cabañas, 51 Years After His Death
On December 2, 1974 the rural teacher, guerrilla & founder of Mexico’s Party of the Poor died during a confrontation with the Mexican military in a coffee-growing jungle of El Otatal.
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Valentín Campa
Valentín Campa gave his life to the Communist Party, but he also gave it to the landless, the peasants, the workers; convinced our country would only be strengthened & belong to everyone when “we all went to sleep having eaten more or less the same thing.”
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Fascism & The Popular Front: The Comintern’s 7th Congress
Rereading Dimitrov today is thought-provoking, as it demonstrates a complex understanding of the fascist phenomenon and legitimately articulates a political and democratic response, such as the Popular Front.
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October 2nd: Never Again!
The ’68 movement marked a milestone in Mexico’s political & cultural history: the first tragic expression of a new social presence and a warning that mobilized citizens would demand much more than economic growth & political stability.
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September 19: A Scar That Won’t Heal
This Friday marks the 40th anniversary of that dawn that marked generations. The 1985 earthquake not only collapsed buildings: it also shattered confidence in the government and awakened civil society.
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Los Guadalupes & The Insurgent Movement
In 1811, a clandestine organization was formed by dozens of men and some women who decided to support Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
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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 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.
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PEMEX: Why Lázaro Cárdenas Created Mexico’s State Oil Company
The Mexican President’s daring move to place the oil industry under public control in 1938 was based on the precepts of Mexico’s Revolution and was a critical expression of Mexican sovereignty.
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Cárdenas, in the Crosshairs of the Cold War
Despite criticism and state surveillance, former President Lázaro Cárdenas’ post-war return to public life was intertwined with his deep solidarity with, and affinity for, the Cuban Revolution.
