A weekly selection of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics.
Kurt Hackbarth, In Mexico, Morena Looks Poised to Win the Presidency Again Jacobin. Beyond the war of sneer-and-smear coming out of Anglophone media, the party in barely a decade has created a structure that has netted it the presidency, the Congress, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures — and is headed for a landslide that could match or even beat its 2018 performance.
Alejandro Páez Varela y Álvaro Delgado Gómez, “No se trata de guerras” Sin Embargo. El Ministro en retiro Arturo Zaldívar comentó a “Los Periodistas” que la estrategia de seguridad que plantea llevar a cabo Xóchitl Gálvez en caso de ganar la Presidencia “es puro populismo de derecha calderonista”.
Gerardo Otero, After 30 Years of NAFTA, the Working Classes Are Still Losing The Nation. Even if many of the Mexican technocrats who championed the treaty expected the working classes to gain bargaining power against capital, the truth is that the opposite happened: the final outcome of the treaty was that Mexico lost both its food sovereignty and its labor sovereignty.
Washington indagó durante décadas los nexos entre el Gobierno de México y los narcos Sin Embargo. Cabe destacar que el actual Gobierno del Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador no forma parte de esos años de indagatoria contra García Luna, sino los expresidentes Fox, Calderon y Enrique Peña Nieto.
Miguel A. Romero, Claudia Sheinbaum kicks off presidential campaign in Mexico City Peoples Dispatch. Sheinbaum highlighted that the neoliberal model was left behind to give way to the emergence of Mexican Humanism, with which during the more than five years of the presidency under AMLO, “many myths” were demolished. “It was said that the state should subordinate itself to the market and that if the minimum wage increased there would be inflation and there would be no investment,” the presidential candidate recalled.
Zedryk Raziel, Sebastián Ramírez, jefe de campaña de Clara Brugada: “Solo una minoría en Ciudad de México es de derecha, clasista y racista El País. El dirigente local de Morena sostiene que en la capital hay una fuerte tradición demócrata y de izquierda, por eso confían en que el oficialismo retenga la Jefatura de Gobierno en la elección.
Anne Vigna, Claudia Sheinbaum launches her presidential campaign, intertwining themes of environmental stewardship, feminism, and the perpetuation of AMLO’s transformative legacy Le Monde. On Friday, March 1, the Mexican Left occupied not only Latin America’s biggest square, Mexico City’s Zocalo, but also all the adjacent streets. The occasion: the launch of Claudia Sheinbaum’s campaign for the June 2 presidential election
Alex Covarrubias V., El mundo del trabajo en el proyecto de Claudia Sheinbaum El Economista.Lo notable es que advierte que se aprovechará para crear polos de desarrollo pero que no se desea empresas que vengan a pagar salarios bajos. Esto es una vuelta de timón que revela una visión estratégica de la industria y el mundo del trabajo contemporáneo.
Adriana Barrera and Cassandra Garrison, Mexico waiting on US proof that GM corn safe for its people, deputy agriculture minister says Reuters. Suarez said the onus is now on the United States to show GM corn is not harming Mexico’s population, which consumes a higher amount of corn than many countries through daily diet staples like nixtamalized dough and tortilla.
Pedro Iniesta, La intervención de la DEA en México De Raíz. Tras reportajes internacionales sin pruebas sobre financiamiento del narcotráfico en sus campañas, el presidente AMLO acusa a la DEA de intervenir en elecciones con “calumnias”.