The USMCA & Economic Control
Mexico is moving toward a de facto semi-customs union, but without the fiscal or political benefits of a formal union, and with a growing loss of commercial and industrial autonomy.
US Imperialism
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Betrayal? Cuba Oil Shipment Apparently Cancelled, Sheinbaum Evasive, Says “Sovereign Decision”
The Mexican President initiated evasive maneuvers in response to direct questioning about a reportedly cancelled shipment of oil to Cuba.
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Solidarity Après la Lettre Dispatch #1
The Progressive International’s Nuestra América Summit, the San Carlos Declaration, and What Comes Next
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The San Carlos Declaration of the Nuestra América Emergency Summit
Full text of the declaration arising from the Progressive International’s Nuestra América summit held on January 24th and 25th, 2026 in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Former DEA Agent Sentenced for Protecting Drug Trafficking Friends
Such cases are not rare for the corrupt American institution, which portrays itself as waging some sort of Drug War, but in reality operates as a critical management link between drug traffickers and the US security state.
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Mexico SA
Canada has begun to make moves (such as rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China), but Mexico is clinging to the USMCA: all its eggs in one basket, something that, given the frenzied dynamic imposed by Trump, doesn’t seem to be the wisest course of action.
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Progressive International’s Emergency Nuestra América Summit Arrives at Critical Juncture for Latin American Unity
Beset by disunity, cynical calculation, tepid reformism and an ascendant ultra-right, Latin America and the Caribbean must unite against a US imperialism which aims to snuff out any emancipatory possibilities and subjugate the continent once and for all.
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Why Chicanas & Chicanos Must Defend Venezuela
Simultaneous attacks on Venezuela and our communities via the criminal actions of ICE and the Border Patrol expose the twin pillars of the Trump/MAGA project.
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Old Wine, New Bottles?
While the share of wages in national income has increased in Mexico, trade liberalization, displacement of domestic production by imports, high interest rates & waning public spending hamper growth & maintain continuity with the much-maligned neoliberal period.
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Trump Insists Land Strikes Against Drug Traffickers Coming Soon, Rambles About Gulf of Mexico
“We have designated the Tren de Aragua, MS-13, & the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They have seen what we have done on the water. We are beginning to do it on land.”
