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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Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples
For Indigenous Peoples Day, Elena Poniatowska talks with Senator Susana Harp on recognizing Afro-Mexican peoples, halting textile plagiarism, and Mexico’s racism.
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Archives of the PRI’s ‘Political Police’ Reveal Its ‘Tradition’ of Spying
Contralínea’s serial report on Mexico’s secret-police files shows the PRI spied on Sheinbaum from age 6, her mother (branded a ‘communist’), and AMLO from his start in politics, among a vast range of targets.
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Trump’s Pushing It — But Claudia Sheinbaum’s No Pushover
David Raby on the El Mayo abduction, USMCA fights, ICE killings of Mexican-Americans, and the economic strength behind Sheinbaum’s firmer line with Washington.
