Mexico’s President commented that, “Justice is the only way to build peace and security, social justice where there is zero impunity. That is why the judiciary was reformed.”
The ostensibly “anti-drug” agency called for attacks on drug trafficking leaders and military strikes on infrastructure, according to the Washington Post.
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political stories in the English and Spanish language press, including Rubio’s visit, no progress on 40 hour workweek, Sheinbaum informa, Taibo II, minimum wage increases, US military & the drug trade, Monroe Doctrine, & Morena’s sectional committees.
Any form of politics that fails to warn people that we are in the age of genocide, or that genocide is occurring elsewhere, leads them to the gallows.
The US has justified its interventions in Latin America by constructing a narrative equating the left with narcos, always with help from local elites, writes Alonso Romero.
The origins of organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico begin with a CIA project of anti-communism, political repression, and right wing death squads deployed throughout Latin America.
Below is a translation of comments made by Alejandro Svarch Pérez, Director General Of IMSS-Bienestar, and Lieutenant Juana Peñaloza Ibarra, Field Chemist Analyst For Precursors At The Secretariat Of The Navy, during the January 2, 2025 press conference in Mexico City addressing a recent story published by The New York Times on December 29, 2024…
What’s behind the capture of El mayo Zambada, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug traffickers?
A substantial part of the “character assassination” includes a torrent of innuendoes, guilt by association, and plenty of other tricky ambiguities aimed at allegedly “demonstrating” the long-term connection, if not association, between AMLO and narco-traffickers since at least 2006.
José Luis Granados Ceja debates Tamara Pearson on the meaning of AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum and the 4th Transformation.