Soberanía 76: ¡Viva Mexico!
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic first Grito, Mexico’s growing sense of optimism, and the stark contrast with a US gripped by fear, censorship, and violence.
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic first Grito, Mexico’s growing sense of optimism, and the stark contrast with a US gripped by fear, censorship, and violence.
Mexico’s 2026 budget, fuel smuggling, tax evasion, Residente in the Zócalo with a powerful moment of solidarity with Palestine, and billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s AI bastardization of Benito Juárez.
Mexico’s historic September 1st: Sheinbaum’s First State of the Union, and Mexico’s First Elected Supreme Court.
An interview with Spanish diputado and constitutional law professor Gerardo Pisarello, renowned in Mexico for defending the country against the imperialism, colonialism, and racism of the Spanish crown, multinational corporations, and parties such as Vox.
Ultra-right wing (& unelected) Senator Lilly Téllez calls for U.S. intervention in Mexico during a Fox News appearance, false claims from the DEA, Ken Klippenstein’s reporting on US invasion plans, & the Baker Institute’s flawed report.
Poverty is down…and opposition justifications are up. 13.4 million Mexicans were lifted from poverty during the AMLO administration.
Amid turmoil, Trump resorts to threatening Latin America. Soberanía discusses Trump’s call for military strikes on organized crime groups, thawing of Mexico–Canada relations, and new data shows crime down in Mexico
Is there any way for the peoples of the Americas to truly understand each other? Dispatches from the Pan-American Congress and good news on reducing poverty, rescuing PEMEX and holding tariffs at bay. Plus, expanding the definition of “cartel” north of the Rio Grande.
A special cross-over episode with David Griscom of Left Reckoning, on militarized budgets and manufactured crises with Mexico, as well as the erosion of civil rights, lessons from Mexico’s leftwar turn and the international boomerang of US Imperialism from the borderlands to Gaza.
The Trump admin is now meddling in Mexico’s internal aviation rules; USMCA agreement’s biggest beneficiaries have been big multinationals, and borough head of Cuauhtémoc rolls the culture-war dice by removing a popular statue of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.