Soberanía 79: Onshoring Sadism
This week on Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth break down Washington’s latest escalation as the US declares itself to be in a “non-international armed conflict” with cartels, exploring how it is set to revive post-9/11 war-on-terror tactics in Latin America. They proceed to discuss the case of the kidnapped Mexicans finally freed after the kidnapping of the Global Sumud Flotilla, what it says about Mexico’s foreign policy, and what a transformational approach to foreign affairs could look like.
The conversation turns to US bullying (again), with fresh threats under the USMCA aimed at Mexico’s energy and telecom sectors, among others, before taking a polling deep dive to contrast Claudia Sheinbaum’s sky-high numbers with those of MORENA. In Losers & Haters, the hosts take aim at media spin from the LA Times and NY Times, and finally tease an upcoming Tren Maya discussion on their El Taller interview show.
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Reading AMLO
“That is hegemony: being able to offer a direction for society as a whole, governed from a social class that has conquered political power,” writes Mejía Madrid.
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Mexico Owns the Water. Who Can Use It?
From the poisoned Santiago River to the 1992 law that turned water into a commodity, Luis Eugenio Parés explains what it will take to make water a right again in an exclusive interview from our latest bulletin.
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PRI Members, Businessmen and Bankers, the Biggest Beneficiaries of Fobaproa
“The same banks that were saved in 1995 are, today, in their ordinary role as investors, collectors of the servicing of that same debt,” charges Rojas Silva in Contralínea.
