Soberanía 80: The Nobel “Peace” Prize Farce
In this week’s episode of Soberanía, hosts Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados react to the farcical irony of far-right Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, unpacking her long record of backing coups, sanctions, and foreign intervention, what this award reveals about Western hypocrisy, and what it all could mean for Mexico. They then turn to President Claudia Sheinbaum’s decision to skip the Summit of the Americas, exploring how it builds on López Obrador’s refusal to attend the Los Angeles edition in 2022 to promote Latin American regional sovereignty against US exclusionism. The discussion continues with the debate around Mexico’s amparo reform bill – in its final stages in Congress – breaking down how it could close off the elites’ endless attempts to game the system and the pushback it has thus sparked from Mexico’s conservative establishment. The episode closes with Losers and Haters, revisiting a familiar figure whose newfound power threatens to do real damage from within the newly dubbed “War” Department.
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People’s Mañanera November 6
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on actions against sexual abuse, healthcare spending, corn prices, flight reductions to US, Buen Fin, free education portal, US interference in Mexico and Mexico-France meeting.
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Normalistas: The “Gen Z March” is Being Promoted by the Right Wing
Students from rural teachers colleges demanded a meeting with the Secretary of the Interior to address violence against them, but rejected the Gen Z march in Mexico City on November 15th as a plot deriving from right wing hatred.
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City Heights Unites Against ICE
Immigrant neighborhoods like City Heights in San Diego are major targets of the Trump assault and are organizing against it. An interview with María Romero.
