A view from Latin America. By Prof Dr Fernando Esteche, Buenos Aires / Argentina The non-consecutive re-election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States of America invites us to reflect on what Latin America and the Caribbean should expect in its historical relationship of dependence and colonialism with the decadent imperial metropolis. Trade, migration, and hemispheric security ...
6 major currents and the need to redefine what’s left. By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein During the first 15 years of this century, Latin America and the Caribbean witnessed a series of democratic and popular processes that placed different versions of the left at the center of events. However, the leading role of Cuba and Venezuela and the overwhelming influence that ...
It is not coincidental. It’s in the annals. The Mexican people did it once again as on many other occasions throughout history. It is true that Hernán Cortés was accompanied by a Malinche (last Sunday there was also another courting the past) but memory reminds us of Atotoztli, Tomiyahuatl, Eréndira and Tecuichpo, great women who forged the Aztec nation. In ...
Mexico is heading to elections on June 2nd. Ahead of these we spoke to Pedro Vázquez González, member of the National Coordination Committee of the Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo) and Federal Deputy in the Mexican Congress. Thanks for taking the time. Elections are coming up in Mexico… Indeed, we have the largest election in the history of Mexico because ...
Senators and Congressmen have introduced both in the House and the Senate several bills and resolutions that propose to designate Mexican drug cartels “foreign terror organizations”. Speaking to UWI, Mexican authors close to the government had evaluated such initiatives as preparing the ground for “cross-border military interventions”. Some bills indeed establish a sanctions regime against foreign governments, should they be ...
Pedro Miguel is an intellectual of traditional kind: her combines various functions in his work. He is a journalist working for Mexico’s leading left-wing daily newspaper La Jornada. He is an advisor to the National Institute for Political Education of Mexico’s governing MORENA party. Therefore, he is deeply embedded into the activities within what the governing coalition calls the Fourth ...
Guatemala Although in 2021 the United States Congress issued a decree that prohibited the delivery of funds to the armies of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras until there were improvements in the fight against corruption, the Department of Defense used a pretext to circumvent that decision to use unrestricted funds. The donation of J8 military vehicles that the United States ...
Both are United States: In the south are the United Mexican States, as the state of Mexico is officially named. In the north are the United States of America. On their relationship focused the third and final part of our interview with Rafael Barajas Durán. As a reminder: Barajas is President of the National Institute of Political Education, which is ...
We are presenting the second part of our interview with Rafael Barajas Durán. The first part of the interview dealt with the issue of drug trafficking, and ended with Barajas saying that the Mexican government is “trying to rescue national sovereignty in regards to security”. The concept of ‘national sovereignty’ stands in the very center of the second part of ...
By Rodrigo Guillot / Mexico City Four years into López Obrador’s presidency in Mexico, popular support for him and the project he heads is unprecedented. As the first leftist ruler in the country’s contemporary history, AMLO – as he is known in Mexico – has been able to keep the right wing on the sidelines. The president maintains a 67% ...