Greater Autonomy for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples
Mexico’s Morena-led government continues to push ahead to fulfill the mandate delivered by the voters, Soberanía co-hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth discuss the country’s historic debt to Indigenous and afro-descendant peoples and the approval of a monumental (and long overdue) constitutional reform that would make Indigenous communities the subjects of rights under the constitution, grant their traditional governance standing in the law, and the right to decide what activities occur in their territories. Plus at the start of the show, a conversation on yet another own goal by the Mexican political opposition, despite being highly publicized, the “Marea Rosa” rally had a poor turnout, inadvertently revealing their declining relevance. Kurt and José Luis also give an update on the Mayo Zambada case and in our Loser and Haters section we take down yet another effort to label AMLO an “autocrat” from yet another ITAM alum.