Soberanía 66: Trump Budget Declares War on Migrants
$178 billion: the amount allocated to immigration enforcement in Trump’s recently passed budget. In this episode of “Soberanía,” Kurt and José Luis analyze the implications of such a colossal figure in the context of a disastrous budget that strips away social protections to shower even more benefits on the wealthy while ratcheting up the punitive state. Also: former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto reemerges on the public scene in a fitting way: enmeshed in another corruption scandal. Will this tip the hand of the federal government to finally prosecute him? Anti-gentrification demonstrations come to Mexico City and, in our “Losers and Haters” segment, some particularly inappropriate comments about said protests.
-
The CIA in Mexico? What a Surprise!
Who can truly believe that Mexican intelligence agencies are unaware of the CIA’s undercover agents operating in Mexico, never mind those who infiltrate special operations & enter on tourist, temporary worker & student visas?
-
Michoacán Congress to Reconsider President Sheinbaum’s “Golden Pension” Reduction Reform
Workers and retirees believe the reduction in pensions violate acquired rights.
-
Mexico Must Define a Position For Its Relationship with the US & China: Enrique Dussel Peters
Mexican elites have for decades failed to keep pace with the global changes involving China.
-
Sheinbaum to US Ambassador: Mind Your Own Business – Soberanía 109
A week of dramatic escalation in U.S.-Mexico tensions and President Sheinbaum’s forceful response.
-
Analysis | Interviews | Labor
Raising Wages: a Tool for Economic Development
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
-
CNTE: A Media Manual for Inciting Hatred
We have returned to the stage of prioritizing lies over a minimum exercise of truthfulness, wrote Jenaro Villamil in 2013. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
