El Taller: Understanding Modern Fascism with Alberto Toscano
In this episode of El Taller, hosts Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja sit down with Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, to unpack what fascism means today — beyond political clichés. Toscano discusses how the term is often misused, the risks of comparing modern politics too directly with the past, and how Mexico’s political transformation stands out amid the global rise of the far right. The conversation bridges theory, geopolitics, and Mexico’s place in an unsettled world.
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Parades, Petitions, Treason & Chihuahua’s Gringa Governor
Demonstrations are useless in these cases; even less so the collection of signatures and the “analysis of all possibilities” by Mexico’s wise legislators, which only delay action against a treasonous Governor.
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20,000 Marched in Defense of the Homeland in Chihuahua
A marcher insisted it wasn’t just about politics, but about sovereignty & the feeling the state was being handed over to foreign interests. “Here, the CIA governs us.”
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Mexican State Apologizes for its Responsibility in Forced Disappearance of Gregorio Alfonso Alvarado López
Gregorio Alvarado was a teacher, poet, father, and Indigenous social leader who was forcibly disappeared along with his family, after months of surveillance & persecution in September 1996.
