A Rose by Any Other Name… Smells as Sweet
You can call US policy toward Latin America the “Monroe Doctrine,” or you can rename it the “Donroe Doctrine,” but it’s the same old imperialist policy in effect for the last 200 years.
You can call US policy toward Latin America the “Monroe Doctrine,” or you can rename it the “Donroe Doctrine,” but it’s the same old imperialist policy in effect for the last 200 years.
In 1994, the Zapatista movement [identified] NAFTA as a deadly blow to Indigenous farmers because “free” trade means freedom to exploit. Their alternative vision of a return to social land ownership could provide health, abundance and self-sufficiency for themselves and for all of Mexico.
The sovereign right of Cuba and Mexico to determine their own path must be defended... If the Cuban revolution is defeated, Mexico and the people of the US will find it harder to win their own transformational demands.
The [Nuestra America] conference’s concrete result was the San Carlos Declaration, [which] outlines a new continental project affirming that the future of America lies in the hands of its peoples.
As a right-wing writer, Schweizer’s role is to promote Trump’s white supremacist agenda of ridding the US of non-white immigrants and conquering Latin America. This book should be listed under “fiction”!
We are clear that ours is a struggle against imperialism, capitalism and war wherever they threaten, from Gaza to Caracas to Greenland.
You are a dynamic media duo — you’ve got great on-air chemistry! José Luis, you lived in Mexico City, and Kurt, you lived far away in Oaxaca. How did you meet and decide to work together on your podcast “Soberanía,” which means “Sovereignty?”
While the Tren Maya is indeed a mega project, it is a “mega” created from the micro inputs of ordinary residents. The process, as much as the product, will be part of the AMLO legacy.