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Mexico’s Bid for Change
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential election reflects widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo—and a broad-based mandate to transform the country.
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Where the Caravan Stopped
Thousands of asylum seekers living in shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border face an uncertain future. Thousands more are heading north. A report from Tijuana.
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Mexican Labor Reawakens
Strikes at factories along the U.S.-Mexico border point to a new era for labor organizing in Mexico.
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Immigrants Didn’t Kill Your Union
The white working class has every reason to be alienated and enraged by rising inequality and the disappearance of good jobs, but their anger has been profoundly misdirected.
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Year One of AMLO’s Mexico
When AMLO took office there was a sense of hope, enthusiasm, and renewal. Today, there is a growing sense of unease about whether his administration can deliver the changes that Mexicans so desperately...
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El primer año del México de AMLO
La llegada de AMLO a la presidencia generó sentimientos de esperanza, entusiasmo y renovación en México. Hoy, hay una creciente inquietud de que su gobierno no es capaz de realizar los cambios que los...
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The Murder of a Witch
In Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, women might be agents of their own lives, but we see with grim acuity where the fear of such agency can lead.
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The Immovable AMLO
The Mexican president continues to decry neoliberalism, but his government is failing to build an effective alternative to it.
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Free Abortion Across Borders
Following Mexico’s Supreme Court ruling to decriminalize abortion, feminists in the country continue to help people access care. Their work can serve as a model for U.S. activists navigating the limits...
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The Contradictions of AMLO
AMLO has performed a tightrope walk as president, balancing the opposing tendencies of populism: the extension of democracy and the strengthening of personal leadership. Has he begun to wobble?
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The Environmental Consequences of Privatizing Mexico’s Oil
The Mexican government’s decision to expropriate the country’s oil in 1938 was sparked by uprisings tied to the labor and environmental abuses of foreign companies. If the state-run energy company is...
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What Happened to Mexico? An Interview with Anabel Hernández
Over the last decade, as many as 100,000 Mexicans have been killed in drug-related violence. The fighting is sustained by consumer demand for drugs and guns from the United States, but for most...
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Claiming Space on the Mexican Left
In late September Mexico was caught between two destructive tropical storms.The metaphor should not be taken too far, but Mexican public life is also under the influence of multiple and contradictory...
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Teachers, Education Reform, and Mexico’s Left
Mexican leftists have flocked to support teachers’ unions in their protests against proposed education reforms. But by overlooking the unions’ undemocratic features and lack of popular support, the...
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Charity or Justice? Pope Francis Revisits Liberation Theology
Under Pope Francis, the Vatican has shown sympathy for a radical Catholic tradition. But Francis sidesteps liberation theology’s most revolutionary ideas.
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The End of the Drug War—Or a New Cartel of Cartels?
This summer, Mexico’s four major cartels signed a pact of alliance. Is this a sign that they’re weakening—or are we entering a new era of state–cartel cooperation?
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Mexico On the Brink
Why, after nearly a decade of drug war violence, police incompetence, judicial impunity, and official corruption, have Mexicans suddenly taken to the streets to demand political change? And can Peña...
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Narcos Anonymous
In a twisted parallel to the country’s long tradition of masked luchadors, Mexico’s cartel leaders have carved out their own traditions of anonymity.
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What Does El Chapo’s Escape Mean for the Mexican Drug Trade?
El Chapo’s escape shows the Sinaloa Cartel still has extraordinary financial and political clout. Benjamin T. Smith explores the effects his newfound freedom might have on trafficking and violence in...
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The Anarchist Spirit
Many popular movements around the world today oppose hierarchy and embrace direct democracy. This is a spirit that we should applaud and help to flourish. With a counter-argument by Sheri Berman.
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The Two Lefts of Jorge Castañeda
Can the Latin American left really be divided into a moderate, social democratic “right left” and an authoritarian, populist “wrong” one?
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Not Just Trump: A Brief History of U.S. Hostility Toward Latin America
Donald Trump’s statements about migration and foreigners should not be dismissed as an anomaly of primary season politicking. From a historical perspective, they express broadly shared although largely...
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Big Philanthropy Takes the Bus
Since the early 2000s, when the Shell-backed EMBARQ began promoting bus rapid transit (BRT), a wide range of philanthropists and transit advocates have seized on the “technical fix,” which promises to...
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Booked: Our Fellow American Revolutionaries
In her new book, Our Sister Republics, Caitlin Fitz exhumes a forgotten moment in the history of the Americas, a time when residents of the newly formed United States came to see Latin Americans as...
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Latinos and the New American Majority
Pan-Latino identity, once the result of a sort of strained political imagination, is increasingly real—and recognizing its potency will be central to building a new progressive movement in the United...
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The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley
Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.
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Why Protecting Journalists is Critical for Mexico’s Democracy
Javier Valdez was the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico so far this year. What will it take for his killers to see justice?
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Unleashing the Military on Mexico’s Drug War
2017 was Mexico’s deadliest year on record—and a new law deepening the military’s role in law enforcement threatens only to make things worse.
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A New Hope for Mexico?
Andrés Manuel López Obrador is hardly the demagogue of his critics’ imaginations. The more relevant question is: if he becomes Mexico’s next president, will he actually bring the changes the country...
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¿Una nueva esperanza para México?
Andrés Manuel López Obrador no es el demagogo que imaginan sus adversarios. Si se convierte en el próximo presidente de México, la pregunta más relevante es: ¿podrá llevar a cabo los cambios que el...
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AMLO’s Final Act
The Mexican president has built his durable popularity by combining traditionally left- and right-wing policies and positions.
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A Landslide Victory for the Mexican Left
The election of Claudia Sheinbaum, building on the record popularity of her predecessor AMLO, is one more step in the decline of the once-hegemonic PRI.
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