Mexico

Socialists in Canada, the United States and Mexico say NO to Trump’s Imperialist Bluster

March 31, 2025 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Global Trade, Labor, Migrants and Refugees, The Working Class, Trade Wars, TradeWars, Trumpism, U.S. Aggression

by Socialist Action, March 20, 2025 Workers, women, youth, and allies – Take Direct Action to Stop the Trade War! American President Donald Trump fosters chaos. His aim is to enrich himself and his corporate cronies, even turning against America’s erstwhile capitalist allies. The working class and low-income folks are sure to suffer the most in Trump’s infernal tariff war. […]

Mexican President Sheinbaum Steps Up

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Mexico, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

src: Resumen LatinoAmericano, published on Resumen English, January 8, 2028 Mexico’s president has recalled that the name of the Gulf of Mexico dates back to the 17th century, branding the elected US president as “misinformed”. Trump proposed to rename the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America”, to which Mexico, through the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has responded Wednesday[…]

Imperialism: Everywhere You Look

September 6, 2024 UNAC Editor coup, Democracy and Consent, Honduras, Mexico, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Karlos Berman, published on Socialist Action, September 2, 2024 On August 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador [photo above] announced that his country had “paused” relations with the embassies of the United States and Canada. He stressed that the “pause” applied to the embassies and not to the countries themselves, whatever that may mean or imply. Some news[…]

Three Amigos No More?

September 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Economics, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Mexico, US Borders, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, US Incited Protests, Wall Street

By Nick Corbishly, Naked Capitalism, August 28, 2024 Mexico’s President AMLO responds by refusing to discuss the matter with US Ambassador Ken Salazar while giving the Mexican people a brief history lesson on US interference in Latin America. Well, that was quick. Just a week ago, we wagered that the US and Canadian embassies would soon begin piling pressure on[…]

AMLO: US Blockade Against Cuba and Venezuela Behind Migration Crisis

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Humanitarian Aid, Imperialism, Mexico, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

from Orinoco Tribune, October 4, 2023 Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the United States’ sanctions and blockade policy against Cuba and Venezuela as the cause of increased regional migration. During his daily press conference on Monday, October 2, López Obrador directly linked US imperialist foreign policy in Latin America to the 10,000 daily arrivals of migrants at the[…]

DeSantis Declares War on Mexico

September 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Legislation, Mexico, Migrants, Migrants and Refugees, Militarism

by Charles Pierson, published on CounterPunch, August 29, 2023 There’s a new sheriff in town and he’s going into Mexico with both six-guns blazin’. Asked during the first Republican presidential primary debate on August 23 whether he would send US Special Forces across the US-Mexican border to interdict fentanyl smuggling, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis barked: “YES, and I will do it on ‘Day[…]

Mexico’s AMLO Announces Campaign Against US Blockade of Cuba

February 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Latin America, Mexico

by Ben Norton, published on Geopolitical Economy, February 13, 2023 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Mexico will lead an international movement to end the US government’s “inhumane” blockade against Cuba. Praising Fidel Castro as a “visionary”, AMLO denounced neoliberalism and pledged support for universal public healthcare and education. Mexico’s progressive President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that his country[…]

Perú, Argentina, México: Lessons of Coups and ‘Lawfare’ in Latin America

December 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Argentina, Bolivia, Lawfare, Mexico, Peru, Resistance

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, December 13, 2022 Coup in Perú Dec. 7. “Lawfare” in Argentina Dec. 6. Confrontation in Mexico Nov. 27. In the past few weeks, Latin America’s reactionary elites, junior partners of U.S. and world imperialism, have challenged leftist elected officials in these three countries. These events illustrate what Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin[…]

US in Latin America: Interference, Extortion and Blackmail in Times of Global Reconfiguration

September 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Latin America, New Cold War, Political Analysis, US Foreign Policy

by Jorge Elbaum, published on Resumen English, August 24, 2022 The disordered and brutal intentionality of the United States to control the political, economic, communicational, military and cultural orientations of Latin America is linked to the loss of its relevance in the region. Last Thursday, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Marc Stanley, arrogated to himself the right to give his[…]

Call Me – Washington’s Generosity

August 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Isaac Saney and Cheryl LaBash, published on Socialist Action, August 11, 2022 While various countries such as Mexico and Venezuela were concretely assisting Cuba in overcoming the unprecedented disastrous fire consuming the Mantanzas oil storage facility, the United States cynically sat on its hands, instead asking Havana to call them. As Mexico, for example, sent 16 flights with over[…]