Critical Minerals: Subordination
The risk is clear: Mexico’s mining, environmental, & investment policies can be progressively shaped to comply with Washington’s parameters, while a model of coordinated dependency becomes the regional norm.
The risk is clear: Mexico’s mining, environmental, & investment policies can be progressively shaped to comply with Washington’s parameters, while a model of coordinated dependency becomes the regional norm.
The collective believes the action plan is a betrayal of campaign promises, and a threat to Mexico, its town and its common resources.
The fight to save Cuba is the fight to save us all, writes José Luis Granados Ceja. We cannot let Cuba stand alone at this moment.
Donald Trump added humiliation to his diplomatic Donroe doctrine of subjugation, not cooperation.
For the Latin American left the meaning is clear: not sending to oil to Cuba will not be interpreted as realism or strategic prudence, but as an abandonment of a tradition that distinguished Mexico, even in the face of openly conservative governments of the past.
Solidarity protestors gathered outside of the former location of the Embassy of the United States on Reforma in Mexico City on Sunday, demanding that Mexico send oil to Cuba and expressing their disavowal of Trump’s recent assault on the island and its people.
On February 7th, a national march for Venezuela will be held to demand the release of Maduro and Flores, and marches or rallies will take place in the capitals of each state.
On the world stage, the reaction to Trump’s imperialist assault remains at the level of statements of rejection: condemnations that sound firm but are ultimately empty, incapable of halting the Trump machine.
The rally condemned US President Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba and decried the over 60 year old blockade against the island.
Public officials who are making strategic decisions for the future of our country today must not forget that in the last elections, 36 million citizens elected them to defend our institutions, to defend a sovereign Mexico, and to decisively prevent intervention. We don’t need lukewarm, confusing positions.