Kristi Noem Signs Waiver for Texas Border Wall Construction
The waiver allows US Department of Homeland Security to waive any legal requirement, including environmental laws, to ensure rapid construction of five miles of border wall.
The waiver allows US Department of Homeland Security to waive any legal requirement, including environmental laws, to ensure rapid construction of five miles of border wall.
American political and media scaremongering about China at the gates belies a simple truth: the Mexican economy is still captive to US corporate investment.
Mexico must move beyond pursuing foreign investment and the USMCA, which only serves US interests: it requires a centralized body capable of planning and coordinating public investment and national development.
Mexican President Sheinbaum responded to US DEA Director Terry Cole, who yesterday did not rule out bombing Mexico.
The grotesque Trumpist cabinet – and the American ruling class – continue to exhibit hypocrisy, violence and transparently imperial thinking that threaten not just Latin America’s sovereignty, but the lives of the inhabitants of the entire planet.
The DEA and other Washington agencies fail to understand Mexico has changed and they will no longer find the obsequious silence that once allowed them to do and say as they please.
President Sheinbaum finds herself at the center of a diplomatic dispute: while she has defended Mexico’s sovereignty with her stance of “coordination yes, subordination no,” the facts suggest this line is constantly blurring.
US President Donald Trump made the remarks during a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday.
The surrender of drug lords and criminals that has been carried out, in a completely illegal manner, is already a form of surrender, of capitulation to the United States, something never seen before.
Trump’s executive order is a threat to any country that defends its sovereignty against US interference in particular and Western interference in general. Latin American and Caribbean unity is an imperative for mutual protection.