Soberanía 87: AMLO Returns to the Public Eye
The reappearance of AMLO (who lives rent-free in the opposition’s heads), the resignation of Mexico’s Attorney General Gertz Manero, and the recent elections in Honduras.
The reappearance of AMLO (who lives rent-free in the opposition’s heads), the resignation of Mexico’s Attorney General Gertz Manero, and the recent elections in Honduras.
Farmers in Mexico are protesting, blockading areas across the country, challenging the low prices they receive for corn & highlighting the role of intermediaries in the supply chain & US dumping of heavily subsidized corn.
The truth behind what was billed as a “youth” march and instead was a by-the-book, attempt at astroturfed destablization.
A recent Mexico City anti-government demonstration was promoted as youth-led and independent of any political group, but also prominently featured your favourite tía panista.
Three stories that reveal where Mexico stands in today’s shifting global politics: Mexico & the EU, oligarch Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s tax bills finally come due, & israel’s false claim of an Iranian plot in Mexico.
Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, discusses what fascism means today, beyond political clichés.
The political vultures are circling after the assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, amongst renewed calls for US intervention and failed “war on cartels” policies.
Martín Mosquera and David Broder of Jacobin Magazine.
Trump’s latest round of extrajudicial military assassinations hit the Pacific this time, off the Acapulco coast; North American trade organizations and a recent delinking conference in Mexico City.
Party two of an interview with the lecturer at University College London, about his new graphic-book Más allá: una historia del Tren Maya.