AMLO in the Crosshairs (Again) – Soberanía 112

ByMexico Solidarity

In episode 112 of Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth open with the fabricated “interview” of Carlos Monsiváis published by El Universal, which smears Andrés Manuel López Obrador with baseless, homophobic innuendo. The hosts demonstrate how the timeline doesn’t match, how Monsiváis’s family has denied the interview’s authenticity, and how the episode reveals the moral bankruptcy of the Mexican right. They connect this to the broader campaign to destroy AMLO’s moral authority as a way to weaken Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency.

Next, they examine the Schrödinger’s box of the USMCA trade agreement. The hosts explain that while the agreement will automatically extend for at least 10 more years, the U.S. may opt for annual reviews — a nightmare scenario that would allow Trump to hold a cudgel over Mexico’s head every single year until 2036.

The conversation then turns to the electoral results in Colombia and Peru. Iván Cepeda conceded a razor-thin defeat (by just 251,000 votes) to a far-right candidate endorsed by Trump, while in Peru, left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez refuses to recognize Keiko Fujimori’s victory, citing widespread fraud. The hosts analyze the different strategies — Cepeda’s cautious concession versus Sánchez’s defiance — and draw lessons for the Latin American left about the need to defang political opponents before they regain power.

Losers and Haters takes aim at the BBC, which unironically tweeted that global trust in news has hit an all-time low — while ignoring its own role in that collapse, from its genocidal coverage of Gaza to its Middle East editor’s ties to a CIA front group.