Mexico Owns the Water. Who Can Use It?
From the poisoned Santiago River to the 1992 law that turned water into a commodity, Luis Eugenio Parés explains what it will take to make water a right again in an exclusive interview from our latest bulletin.
Interviews
-
-
“Washington Stole the Election from Me. It Happened in Honduras and It Can Happen in Mexico”
In an interview with Sin Embargo, the Honduran ex-candidate says Trump’s attacks and the Juan Orlando Hernández pardon were a planned operation, and urges the left to organize.
-
The Women of Mexico’s War of Independence
We interviewed Dr. Pedro Salmerón for our weekly bulletin to talk about Mexican Independence: “Like the nomads of Mongolia, they all moved together. Women participated directly.”
-
What Awaits Migrant Kids “Al Otro Lado?”
Kathy Kruger Castro, a Mexican attorney at Al Otro Lado, was separated from her brother for 10 years at the border. Now she fights for unaccompanied migrant kids.
-
Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples
For Indigenous Peoples Day, Elena Poniatowska talks with Senator Susana Harp on recognizing Afro-Mexican peoples, halting textile plagiarism, and Mexico’s racism.
-
Cuba: Direct Dialogue With the United States, Without Significant Progress
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal Ferreiro says Washington answers every dialogue session days later with new sanctions, and warns Havana is preparing for legitimate self-defense against latent US military threats.
-
Utopía — or Dystopia? Socialism — or Barbarism?
Ashwin Ravikumar of DSA’s Mexico Solidarity Working Group on Iztapalapa’s 16 Utopías — community centers showing what ‘re-socializing the commons’ can look like.
-
Raising Wages: a Tool for Economic Development
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
-
Monroe to Donroe
An interview with CODEPINK’s Teri Mattson on US foreign policy in Latin America & the Caribbean.
-
Sheinbaum: Universal Healthcare for All?
Nearly two years into President Sheinbaum’s term, the gap between announcement & real implementation is still wide; universal healthcare cannot be achieved in the current conditions of chronic underfunding.
