CLICKS OCTOBER 8
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Sheinbaum and Brugada inaugurations, Airbnbn regulation comes to Mexico City, DEA torture in Latin America.
DEA
SOBERANÍA 20 – The Capture of El Mayo Zambada: Who Wins?
What’s behind the capture of El mayo Zambada, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug traffickers?
SOBERANÍA 12 – Dirtying Elections Abroad
The DEA, with the help of ProPublica, again interferes in Mexico’s election, grassroots efforts by university students to hold a mock election, catching up with Enrique Krauze and his horrible piece in the Financial Times.
WEEKLY NEWS ITEMS MARCH 30
The 4th Transformation, Morena’s dubious new recruit, anti-AMLO smear campaign, a crybaby billionaire tax cheat, labor news and new leaks reveal corporate interests driving US foreign affairs meddling.
Mexico’s Opposition Strategy for the Coming Elections
Analysis of the dangers and prospects surrounding one of Mexico’s most importat elections from the México Solidarity Project and Mexico Solidarity Forum.
NYT: Arrogance & Distortion
The Times displays an insolence that is out of place in the treatment of any country and that constitutes an umpteenth example of the colonial and racist arrogance with which the Western media addresses the entire non-white world.
Feast of Vagueness
The latest in a series of clockwork, election-timed hits against AMLO, this time by the New York Times, is the biggest nothing-burger yet.
Soberanía 2 – Ms. Galvez Goes to Washington
Why did Xóchitl Gálvez meet with the Wilson Centre, State Department and the OAS & ignore Mexican migrants? What effect could her trip have on the June 2 election?
Pro Publica & Dirty Work
The US website Pro Publica’s laundering of allegations in a now-closed, almost two-decades old DEA investigation betrays the brittleness of its construction.
Weekly News Items Feb 3
The re-invigoration of the SME trade union, a calculated and coordinated smear against AMLO with Yankee origins, Xóchitl Gálvez dogged by Mexican migrant protestors during US visit, water issues, violence in Chiapas.