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Jan 16, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | Kurt Hackbarth
It was 1973, year of the energy crisis and the beginning of the rollback of postwar social democracy. In Mexico, student attempts to crack open the nation’s one-party state had been recently met by the twin massacres of Tlatelolco in 1968 and Corpus Christi in 1971. That fall, a university freshman from the southern state of Tabasco was studying political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) when news came of the brutal overthrow of the president of Chile.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Kurt Hackbarth
Six weeks before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, the battle lines of the next phase of the Mexico-US relationship are quickly being drawn. On November 25, the president-elect took to his Truth Social account to threaten both Canada and Mexico with 25 percent tariffs starting on day one of his second term.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Kurt Hackbarth
Since taking office on October 1 as Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum has had — to put it mildly — an eventful month. She has made three trips to Acapulco to coordinate recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane John.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Kurt Hackbarth
Since taking office on October 1 as Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum has had — to put it mildly — an eventful month. She has made three trips to Acapulco to coordinate recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane John.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Kurt Hackbarth |Rania Khalek |Eugene Puryear
Mexico has inaugurated Claudia Sheinbaum, its first woman president, following her landslide victory in June. Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, explains what to expect from the US corporate elite and Mexico’s right wing as Sheinbaum’s pledge to continue AMLO’s progressive Fourth Transformation initiative threatens their plans for the country. ZNetwork is funded solely through the generosity of its readers. Donate
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
ipanewspack.com | Kurt Hackbarth
By Kurt HackbarthMEXICO CITY: Following her landslide victory in Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum was officially inaugurated as president on Tuesday October 1. The first woman president in Mexican history, Sheinbaum will be the second president in a row from MORENA, the party founded by her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in 2014. The day played out in two parts.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Kurt Hackbarth
Following her landslide victory in Mexico’s June presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum was officially inaugurated as president on Tuesday. The first woman president in Mexican history, Sheinbaum will be the second president in a row from MORENA, the party founded by her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in 2014. The day played out in two parts. At 11:30 a.m., Sheinbaum arrived at the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico’s lower house, for the ceremonial passing of the presidential sash.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
portside.org | Kurt Hackbarth
Who’s Afraid of Mexican Democracy? Published September 11, 2024 Following its landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections, the MORENA coalition is wasting no time in getting to work.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
ipanewspack.com | Kurt Hackbarth
By Kurt HackbarthFollowing its landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections, the MORENA coalition is wasting no time in getting to work. Even before president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum takes office on October 1, the new Congress is taking up a package of constitutional amendments proposed by outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), flexing the muscle of a two-thirds qualified majority that allows the president’s party to pass such measures virtually on its own.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Kurt Hackbarth
Following its landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections, the MORENA coalition is wasting no time in getting to work. Even before president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum takes office on October 1, the new Congress is taking up a package of constitutional amendments proposed by outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), flexing the muscle of a two-thirds qualified majority that allows the president’s party to pass such measures virtually on its own.
