The Origins of Cruz Azul
Once the workers took control of the factory, they began to seek the development of well-being, and that is how the group of cooperatives was created and with it the town of Jasso.
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How an Alliance of Corrupt Police Officers, the CIA & the DEA Gave Rise to the Cartels
Since World War II, the main institutional protection structures for drug trafficking in Mexico have been linked to the CIA and the DEA.
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Cinco de Mayo: The Chicano Holiday
US alcohol corporations have largely coopted this holiday, marketing it as an occasion to party, not to celebrate an anti-imperialist victory, much less motivate the Chicano people’s ongoing struggle against racism and national oppression.
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Popular Resistance to the Yankee Invasion of the Port of Veracruz
April 21st marks the 112th anniversary of the popular defense of the Port of Veracruz against US occupation.
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The President of Mexico Who Spied for the CIA
More than six decades later, recently released CIA documents related to the JFK assassination conjure a scene that does not fit within the rhetoric of sovereignty.
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Che Guevara: We Can Give Our Blood to any American Homeland
“I believe that all the problems facing our revolution, the vital problems, those that transcend the national peculiarities of each country, encompass the entire American continent.” A 1959 interview with Che Guevara.
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Pasta de Conchos: Industrial Homicide
Two decades since 65 miners lost their lives, families continue to demand justice. Not all the bodies have been recovered, nor has Grupo México been fully held accountable.
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Fighting on the Mexican Side: Gringo Rebels from the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to the Wobblies
US imperial intrusion into Mexico has another side: US citizens in Mexico contesting imperialism and constructing revolutionary change.
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Cárdenas & Cuba: The Torrent of Solidarity
Part of Mexico’s 1938 oil nationalization was paid for with the sweat of the Cuban people, and in 1961, a headline appeared in the Mexican newspaper Hoja Revolucionaria: “Not sending oil to Cuba is betraying the oil expropriation.”
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Julio Antonio Mella & Anti-imperialism
Fidel Castro said that Mella, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Cuba who worked in Mexico, was the one who did the most in the least amount of time.
