Tag: Mexico; North America

Mexico’s Second Presidential Debate: New Format, Still Boring

May 29, 2018

Mexico’s second presidential debate was, in a word, disappointing. Authorities anticipate a high level of participation in these elections. People are organizing to participate as observers, voters, representatives of their parties, media monitors and informed citizens. Hopefully the third debate in June will reflect the high level of preparation and seriousness that an ever-more active citizenry deserves.

Disarming Patriarchal Violence

April 20, 2018

Nearly a million young people marched for their lives on March 24 in Washington DC and cities throughout the nation. They railed against the fact that in the wealthiest country in the world, youth no longer feel secure in their schools, their neighborhoods and their daily lives, and demonstrated against the politics that promotes the death industry over their survival.

Radiography of the VIII Summit of the Americas in the Trump Era

April 19, 2018

The era of Trump marks a change that replaces the construction of hemispheric agendas with mere demands that other nations back up the U.S. government in its war policies, and an attitude of intolerance and aggression toward political situations that prevail in other countries of the region that contributes nothing to resolving them.

Radiografía de la VIII Cumbre de las Américas en la era Trump

April 17, 2018

La era Trump marca un punto de inflexión y reemplaza la construcción de agendas en el continente por simples exigencias de respaldo a su política guerrerista y una actitud de intolerancia y agresión a situaciones políticas que prevalecen en algunos países de la región, que en nada contribuyen a solucionarlos.

‘Pre-electoral fraud is being planned’: Interview with Porfirio Muñoz Ledo

March 20, 2018

Mexico’s transition to democracy has not been a linear path of progress. From the late 80’s with the split in the Revolutionary Institutional Party, to the triumph of the conservatives in 2000, to the return of the ruling party, it has been a bumpy road. There are few people who know this process as well or have played such an active role as Porfirio Muñoz Ledo.

Tillerson en México

February 13, 2018

La visita de Tillerson agitó las aguas ya enlodadas de la política mexicana. No hizo nada por reparar la relación binacional e incrementó, en lugar de disipar los temores sobre las políticas de la administración Trump contra los migrantes mexicanos, el muro fronterizo, la fallida guerra contra las drogas o posibles planes para bloquear al centroizquierda en las próximas elecciones.