Posts tagged: mexico

Tear gas as border control and atmospheric governance

Aria Alamalhodaei interviews Anna Feigenbaum about airborne politics, the use of tear gas as border control, and what resistance to nonlethal weapons looks like.
What Happened To Mexico's Missing 43 Students?

An interview on NPR's Weekend Edition with journalist Anabel Hernandez about her new book, A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students.
Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens

Historian Margaret Stevens discusses transnational connections between Black radicals during the interwar years, the interplay between militant Caribbean workers’ uprisings and Communist Party leadership, and the lessons of Communist anti-racist and anti-imperialist organizing.
AMLO's Double Bind

Andrés Manuel López Obrador's victory in Sunday's election signals new hope for Mexico. But implementing his radical programme may resuly in a severe backlash both at home and abroad. David Adler reports on AMLO's chances, and the hope for a new Mexico.
López Obrador and the Fight Ahead

Christy Thornton reports from Mexico on Andrés Manuel López Obrador's victory in Sunday's election and reflects on the forces lined up to oppose his agenda.
End the “Green” Delusions: Industrial-scale Renewable Energy is Fossil Fuel+

Industrial-scale renewable energy does nothing to remake exploitative relationships with the earth, and instead represents the renewal and expansion of the present capitalist order.
We Built the Wall

U.S. immigration policy during the Trump presidency and in the years beyond could be outrageous and appalling, but it’s not new.
Two Poems by Heriberto Yépez

"~~Yépez~~ is at the forefront of a generation of writers who are questioning notions of fluidity and synthesis, a generation that has seen those same categories veil the advent of global neoliberalism," Edgar Garcia has written.
In Mexico, Solidarity Versus the State

In the aftermath of two earthquakes in Mexico, the state and the political system have provided little but frustration for residents affected.
The Surrealist Continent

Throughout the twentieth century the concerns of artists in Europe and North America have had an obvious impact on the art of Latin America, yet it is important to recognize the particular significance of movements such as Surrealism or abstraction within a non-Western context.
Decade of the Dead
When is our terror enough?