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.
Neoliberalism
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People’s Mañanera October 15
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on economic growth, neoliberalism, tourism, and Jalisco.
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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.
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Judicial Reform in Mexico: Morena, the Opposition, and How History Was Made
In part two of his paper, Luke Pickrell examines Mexico’s historic 2024 judicial reform: how Morena built mass trust while the PRI and PAN collapsed under neoliberalism and a failed drug war.
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Dignity and Sovereignty
“The ultraconservative US elite that governs that divided country” engages in “fierce belittling and devaluation of the Mexican,” warns Linares Zapata.
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Broken Promises and Discontent: Reforms to Mexico’s Supreme Court Between 1994 and 2018
In part one of his paper, Luke Pickrell explores Mexico’s Supreme Court during the neoliberal period and argues it was made to serve the elite rather than the people.
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Wages: Reversing the Neoliberal Damage
Wages now make up 30.8% of GDP (4.1 points more than in 2018) and labor poverty fell to 31.9%: the Fourth Transformation reversing decades of neoliberal wealth transfer to those at the top.
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The Social Sector of the Economy: The Missing Piece Facing the Market
“The social sector represents all those forms that do not compulsively pursue the objectives of the capitalist economy. They have as their antecedent all the community and cooperative forms that have not been able to be subsumed under the logic of profit”
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FIFA: Corporate State with Market Immunity
FIFA captures sovereign territory through tax exemptions and free infrastructure use; Peña Nieto’s irrevocable concessions shield 2026 World Cup contracts.
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Mexico’s Host Cities for 2026 World Cup Will Suffer More Economic Losses Than Benefits
12 billion USD in infrastructure investment for an economic impact of 3 billion USD. Meanwhile an opaque agreement with FIFA means big tax breaks for FIFA & foreign corporations.
