Mexico

Mexican Town With Lowest Crime Rate in the Country Kicked out Its Police and Politicians 7 Years Ago

In the town of Cherán, in Michoacán, Mexico, a system of traditional indigenous law-enforcement and accountability continues to guide the people. In early 2011, residents of Cherán created armed militias to fight off illegal logging and drug cartels in their community. The community kicked out politicians and police accused of ties to the drug cartels and began a new system of governance based on Purhépecha traditions.

Mexico May Legalize Heroin: Fox News Says Send In the Air Force and Marines

Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested a United States war with Mexico last week during his interview with Juan Hernandez, who Carlson introduced as having been an advisor to former Mexico President Vicente Fox. In the interview focused on the prospect of state- or national-level legalization of heroin production in Mexico, Carlson emphatically asks his guest,

Monkey Makes His Move On Trade-- Another Bad Deal

I found it condescending-- and, honestly, kind of offensive-- that right after the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, referred to Señor Trumpanzee as "President Trump," Señor T called him "Enrique." And then there was the way Trump smirked like a drooling moron when Peña Nieto referred to the trade agreement as "NAFTA." Anyway, watch the idiot in action; it's worthwhile and will give you a real window into his tiny ADT-mind. Everything about Trump is greasy and, beyond that, always grotesquely self-serving. "My farmers"...

How Mexico Stabbed Canada in the Back to Get a Better Trade Deal With the US

(ZHE Op-ed) — In what was the biggest economic news of the day, Donald Trump concluded bilateral trade negotiations with Mexico, a deal which he called the US-Mexico Trade Agreement (profiled previously) and which will replace the trilateral NAFTA which has – for now at least – been scrapped until Canada also comes to the negotiating table and hammers out […]