Soberanía 84: The Post-Monroe Moment
This week on Soberanía, Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja bundle up for a freezing Mexico City episode and break down three stories that reveal where Mexico stands in today’s shifting global politics. First, they explore Mexico and the “old world” — new meetings between Mexico, France, Spain, the EU and CELAC, and what these diplomatic moves say about Latin America’s growing independence from European influence. Then they turn to Ricardo Salinas Pliego, as Mexico’s most notorious oligarch finally faces the Supreme Court after years of legal dodges by his companies. The hosts unpack what this long-delayed reckoning means for accountability and the balance between power and money in Mexico. Finally, they examine Israel’s false claim of an “Iranian plot” in Mexico, how the story unraveled, and what it reveals about media manipulation and foreign attempts to drag Mexico into geopolitical narratives. And as always, it all wraps up with Losers and Haters of the Week, this time focusing on the so-called Gen Z protests and how they’re being weaponized by the opposition and media to push an anti-government narrative.
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Parades, Petitions, Treason & Chihuahua’s Gringa Governor
Demonstrations are useless in these cases; even less so the collection of signatures and the “analysis of all possibilities” by Mexico’s wise legislators, which only delay action against a treasonous Governor.
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20,000 Marched in Defense of the Homeland in Chihuahua
A marcher insisted it wasn’t just about politics, but about sovereignty & the feeling the state was being handed over to foreign interests. “Here, the CIA governs us.”
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Mexican State Apologizes for its Responsibility in Forced Disappearance of Gregorio Alfonso Alvarado López
Gregorio Alvarado was a teacher, poet, father, and Indigenous social leader who was forcibly disappeared along with his family, after months of surveillance & persecution in September 1996.
