Katu Arkonada One year after the triumph of the people, a popular insurrection of votes at the polls, that occurred on July 1, 2018, and 7 months of governing, perhaps the phrase that best characterizes the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is the one with which this analysis begins. A President, moved by…
Category: MEXICO
How Mexico’s Mayan Train Could Provoke Widespread Ecological Collapse
Cristina Barros A group of members of the Scientific Research Center of Yucatan and the Autonomous University of Yucatan – Casandra Reyes Garcia, Celene Espadas Manrique, Alejandra Garcia Quintanilla and Manuela Tamayo Chim – explain the biologists’ concerns (and not only theirs) about the effects that the Mayan Train could have. Faced with the disapproval…
Mexico’s Government Under Coordinated Right-wing Attack
Miguel Angel Ferrer It is notoriously clear that the government of President López Obrador is under a coordinated and fierce attack by right-wing forces. There are several fronts for this attack, all of them absurd or questionable. But the most irrational is the criticism of the government’s decision to impose order on the very disorderly…
How is Mexico’s Fourth Transformation Progressing?
Claudio Fabian Guevara Nearly six months in government, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador travels around the country holding public events to report on the march of the Fourth Transformation. What is AMLO’s message in this campaign? How is the Fourth Transformation of Mexico going? Was it only a campaign slogan or is it being…
Migrations: One Door Closes, Another Opens
Miguel Angel Ferrer Internationalist 360° For many years now, migration of Mexicans to the United States has faced increasing difficulties: higher costs, more repression, more dangers. This has led to a fall in the number of Mexican migrants. But migrations to the US continue. Now these migrations have a geographically distinct and diverse origin: Hondurans,…
Mexico: Translating the Fourth Transformation
Olivia Durif Peña Nieto and López Obrador meet in the National Palace in August 2018, about five months before López Obrador would take office. The two met to discuss the transition of power. (Presidencia de la República Mexicana/ Flickr). A conversation with two Marxist economists, Beatriz Mingüer and Oscar Rojas, currently working as MORENA party…
A Honduran Asylum-Seeker Was Brutally Murdered After Being Deported from Mexico
Eileen Grench Terror raced through Teresa Gonzales as both the clarity of the message and the ambiguity of the threat hit her at once. “We have a present for you waiting outside,” read the text, which appeared on her daughter Rosa’s cellphone during Saturday worship. “Mom, they’re threatening me,” said Rosa, eyes wide. Teresa, whose…
Decriminalizing the Drug War? Calculating the Damage from a Century of Drug Prohibition
Alfred W. McCoy We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social justice, and border security, there is, however, one overlooked issue that should be at the top of everyone’s agenda, from Democratic Socialists to libertarian Republicans: America’s longest…
Moral Humanism in the Fourth Transformation of Mexico
Fernando Buen Abad Every political action carries within it the real philosophy, with its contradictions, of every system in which it takes place. In it are the embryos of history and, sometimes, of the peoples who have developed a critical consciousness of the reality that surrounds them and a proactive awareness of the tasks before…
Mexico is a Massive Clandestine Grave
In Mexico 40,000 missing persons, more than 26,000 unidentified bodies, and 1,100 mass graves prompted the AMLO government to call the country a huge clandestine grave. The undersecretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas of Mexico said Monday that Mexico in itself is a clandestine grave. Mexico has 40,000 registered…
Mexico’s Indigenous People Reject AMLO’s Approval of ‘Mayan Train’
Over 80 Indigenous communities in Mexico’s Yucatan say the president is creating a ‘false narrative’ that they approve of and identify with the 1,500km Mayan Train. Mayan communities in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula are speaking out against the president’s ribbon cutting ceremony on Sunday for a high-speed ‘Mayan Train’ set to be built across the region…
Mexico’s Solution to the Border Crisis: A Latin American Marshall Plan
Patrick Lawrence With President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatening to shut down the government if he doesn’t get his wall, it’s good that someone in a position of authority actually has a workable solution to the migrant crisis festering on the Mexican border with the U.S. The day after Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office…
