From the very beginning, Mexico’s political opposition was against the building of the Tren Maya, particularly once it became clear that it was AMLO’s signature project. Coming himself from Southern Mexico, the country’s poorest region, he wanted to promote economic development not based on the top-down neoliberal model but to ensure ordinary people actually benefitted.
Helping one person at a time, especially as the ropes of the immigration system tighten, is clearly not enough. It naturally leads to the path of advocacy and activism, to doing everything possible to change the rules. Ortiz-Santos took that path.
...when the moment called for more, for a different kind of fight, Modotti left off taking photos and took up organizing resistance to fascism. Her legacy is more than a cache of groundbreaking images — it’s a lesson in being a revolutionary.
Javier Bravo is a left-wing Mexican activist who calls himself a Morena dissident; he is pushing from within to improve its members’ ethical and political education and bring Morena closer to the Mexican people.
People without jobs in the formal sector open laundromats, taco stands, car washes to make a living. They are considered microenterprises when they have fewer than 10 employees; they represent 85% of all businesses in Mexico.
Dystopia. As Manuel Castro recounts, since early September, that’s what it has felt like in Chicago, when Trump launched “Operation Midway Blitz.”
Morena is a party of a brand-new design, one that has aimed to be democratic, ethical and serve the neediest. Are there design flaws? Sure...
When poverty is the real crime, then removal — imprisonment or deportation — punishes the victims, not the perpetrators: the ruling elites who define crime and punishment. So should walking across the border to provide needed labor in the US be a punishable crime? Migrants deserve a warm welcome and the opportunity to live and work without fear.
