Soberanía 69: Terror Keynesianism
In this crossover episode of Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth are joined by David Griscom of Left Reckoning to unpack how militarized spending and reactionary politics have turned the U.S.-Mexico border into a profitable battleground. From Texas sheriffs chasing cable news fame to ICE’s record-breaking budgets, they explore how state power and corruption fuel a bipartisan consensus of repression. The conversation also touches on “terror Keynesianism,” the erosion of civil rights, lessons from Mexico’s leftward turn, and the international boomerang of U.S. imperial policy—from the borderlands to Gaza.
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From Fast and Furious to Walking Fentanyl: Lessons Not Learned by the US
Nancy Flores digs into declassified emails showing the DEA let fentanyl ‘walk’ New Mexico streets, echoing the ATF’s Fast and Furious guns to the Sinaloa Cartel a decade earlier.
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The Women of Mexico’s War of Independence
We interviewed Dr. Pedro Salmerón for our weekly bulletin to talk about Mexican Independence: “Like the nomads of Mongolia, they all moved together. Women participated directly.”
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Broken Promises and Discontent: Reforms to Mexico’s Supreme Court Between 1994 and 2018
In part one of his paper, Luke Pickrell explores Mexico’s Supreme Court during the neoliberal period and argues it was made to serve the elite rather than the people.
