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 Communities That Held Venezuela Together
After the June 24 earthquakes flattened La Guaira, the communal councils Venezuela built years earlier became the relief network sanctions couldn’t stop.
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If USMCA Disappears in the Next Decade, It Would Be the End of Economic Liberalization
Ahead of the July 20 USMCA review, UAM economist Carolina Hernández Calvario argues Mexico’s development project would outlive free trade, urging “strategic anticipation.”
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Hugo Eric Flores and the Evangelical Far Right
Hugo Eric Flores launches PAZ, his third evangelical party; a career opportunist who has passed through the PRI, the PAN, and Morena, always to hand the evangelical vote a party.
