Mexico

VICE News Attempts to Paint COVID-19 Refugees as Lunatics

If the corporate media were to honestly tell this story, they would have to acknowledge that COVID-19 lockdowns, mandates, and firing of people for failing to follow the mandates, was the clearest display of authoritarianism seen by the modern world in a generation. In early 2022, VICE News began reaching out to members of the Read More...

Bombs and Missiles ‘r Us . . . and Further Infantilization of USA/EU/UK

I’m finishing up a “children’s book.” It’s longish. Kati the Coatimundi Finds Lorena. It’s about a precocious (actually, super smart) 12 year old, Lorena, who is in a wheelchair (paraplegic) who ends up finding out the family trip to Playa del Carmen back to San Antonio, Texas, brought with them a stowaway animal — a coati. Yep, the world […]

Derrick Broze Interview – Mexico’s Ivermectin Use Exposes The Controlled Narrative Around The Drug

Joining me today is Derrick Broze, here to discuss his recent article on Mexico’s use of ivermectin, and how it exposed a very clear effort to control the flow of information around this drug in particular, and around early treatment for COVID-19 in general — often to the extreme detriment of those in need of Read More...

You Are Also a Victim of War like Us

Daniela Edburg (Mexico), Atomic Picnic, 2007. On 27 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin met the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov and the Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. ‘The top officials of the leading NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organisation] countries have made aggressive statements against our country’, Putin said. […]
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As Workers Win Victories in Mexico, It’s Important to Remember Past Machinations Against Them

Mexico’s reenergized labor movement should be leery of AFL-CIO cooptation and CIA infiltration following long historical pattern In early February, […]
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Obrador calls US bankrolling of Mexican opposition groups ‘shameful’

Press TV – February 22, 2022 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has called on Washington to stop the “shameful” bankrolling of Mexican opposition groups, and refrain from intervening in the country’s internal affairs. At a news conference on Monday, Obrador lashed out at the Joe Biden administration for not explaining why it finances political groups […]

Mexico City Health Ministry Stands By Ivermectin Use After ‘Colonialist & Authoritarian’ Censorship Of New Study

A battle over the distribution of ivermectin by the Mexican government continues as a paper describing the apparent benefits of the program has been removed from a popular online science database. In late January, Reuters released a “Fact Check” titled “Mexico no longer including ivermectin in home COVID-19 care kits, contrary to claims on social Read More...

Blows Against the Empire

2021 was marked, from start to finish, as a year dominated by the pandemic and its attendant dramas, including vaccination, variants, and lockdowns. When the prior year had come to a close, journalists and writers had described 2020 as the “plague year” or the “lost year.” Although 2020 was defined by the onset of the […]
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2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again

US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean continued in a seamless transition from Trump to Biden, but the terrain over which it operated shifted left. The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 with major […]