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Mexican Government Washes its Hands of Corruption
Read moreAs Mexico’s National Guard Barracks Increase, So Does Violence
OPINION By KELIN DILLON One year after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) greenlighted the construction of hundreds of nationwide barracks for Mexico’s National Guard in December 2020, the country’s total barrack count has grown by 123 – but so has Mexico’s rate of violence in tandem. According to the National Public Security System (SNSP), between January and October
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Christmas Dinner under AMLO’s Republican Austerity
Read moreMexico’s Labor Party, a Coalition of Leftist Movements
By JESSICA GUERRERO The leftist faction is relatively new in modern Mexican politics. It was not until after almost 70 years of hegemony of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 20th century, that the left began to take shape as the first citizen counterweights appeared. The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) saw the light of day in
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The End of 2021 Comes Crashing Home
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Former U.S. envoys and military commanders plead for Afghanistan
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The Militarization of Mexico via the National Guard
Read moreAMLO’s Not-So-Stringent Nonintervention Policy
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is a great defender of the concept of nonintervention in the affairs of other countries … except, when he’s not. Should the country in question be a pseudo-democracy such as Venezuela or Cuba, then he is more than willing to toss his unflinching values of nonintervention out the window
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