By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
Tag Archive for ‘Michoacán’
When the Saints Come Marching In
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … Mexico’s Day of the Dead is really a reaffirmation of life through the celebration and mocking of death…
Anarchist Vandalism Feared for Oct. 2 March
By RICARDO CASTILLO … There’s fear in the air with the advent of the 51st anniversary march of what is known as the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre…
No Deals with Gangs, but NGO Wants Coke Legalized
By RICARDO CASTILLO … While the Interior Secretariat has been accused of negotiating with drug lords, a NGO is trying to get legal access to cocaine…
Witnessing ‘Un Horrór Norteamericano’ from Mexico
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No Republican Austerity for Mexico’s Political Parties
By RICARDO CASTILLO … There may be austerity in most aspects of Mexican public expenditures, but not when it comes to financing the nations political parties…
Alfonso Romo, AMLO’s Link to the Wealthy
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Today, Romo is leading AMLO through the businessmen’s jungle, a delicate, perilous venture that only a man who knows the way can carry out…
AMLO to Meet with Education Workers Unions
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The big surprise at the National Palace on Teachers’ Day was that, AMLO did not invite the leaders of the education workers unions…
Hallelujah! A Teachers’ Day without a CNTE Demonstration…Maybe…or Maybe Not
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Every May 15 since 2013, CNTE teachers have staged protests to blockade downtown Mexico City. This year may be different…
City in Flames
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … Uncontrolled fires in Mexico City and the rest of the Valley of Mexico continue to contaminate the capital’s air quality…
AMLO Slays Mexico’s Education Reform with the Stroke of a Memo
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Outraged protests against a memorandum issued by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador eliminating the Education Reform has been massive…
