Soberanía 68: Flying the Unfriendly Skies
The unfriendly skies, indeed: as part of its ongoing turning-of-screws, the Trump administration is now meddling in Mexico’s internal aviation rules, with a series of fresh threats against flights to the US and the Delta-Aeromexico joint venture. Kurt and José Luis have a full breakdown. According to a new study, the biggest beneficiaries of the Mexico-US-Canada free-trade agreements have been: [drumroll], the big multinationals, vindicating what Chomsky warned about in the lead-up to the original NAFTA in 1994. The borough head of Cuauhtémoc rolls the culture-war dice by removing a popular statue of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara close to where they first met, and… burning books at the anti-gentrification rally?
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The USMCA: Dependence In a World Without Free Trade
Mexico is beginning to adopt positions compatible with U.S. priorities not through sovereign decision, but due to the constraints of its own integration.
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For a Solidarity of the South
It is essential that Mexico and Brazil redouble their solidarity with Cuba, both out of altruism and the understanding that the fate of the Global South hinges on the island.
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Predatory Advertising
More normalized than the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Mexico is the consumption of soft drinks. This is because our country has been the victim of one of the most devastating forms of predatory advertising: Coca-Cola advertising.
