Dirty politics south of the border
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 3:42pmLast Friday U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Mexico that Putin was hiding under their beds.
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NAFTA from Mexico's view
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 12/01/2017 - 5:36pmThe fifth round of NAFTA talks did not go well.
Single-Payer Debate: Forget Canada, Look at Mexico
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 4:14pmThe for-profit health care industry spends enormous amounts of time and money trying to convince us that Canada's overwhelmingly popular single-payer health care system (i.e. socialism) is worse than ours.
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 5:52am
Something/Someone Old
Look what they found in Mexico City, underneath a hotel:
Next Week's Big Elections
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 05/30/2017 - 4:19pmThere are two big elections next week, but you are probably not aware of the one in Mexico on Sunday.
While voters in the states of Coahuila and Nayarit will also elect new governors, all eyes will be on the election in the State of Mexico. For more than 90 years the PRI has ruled in Mexico's most populace state, but that might be coming to an end.
The Rise of the Anti-Trump and left-wing populism
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 04/16/2017 - 10:45pmUnder questioning from Senator McCain, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly decided to give his opinion about Mexican presidential candidate, Manuel Lopez Obrador.
No Foolie
Submitted by Robyn on Sat, 04/01/2017 - 2:54pmsuppose it was bound to happen. Violence against transgender women is so common in Mexico.
The civil rights organization Transgender Europe has documented 247 killings of transgender people in Mexico between January 2008 and April 2016, the second-highest number in the world, after Brazil.
Trump upends Mexican politics
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 2:28pmDonald Trump's presidency is proving to be a disaster for the ruling, neoliberal political party in Mexico - PRI.
Pres. DT Threatens to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico to Take Care of 'Bad Hombres'
Submitted by ngant17 on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 7:20pmPresident Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico to Take Care of 'Bad Hombres'
Source: Time/Associated Press
President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop "bad hombres down there" unless the Mexican military does more to control them itself, according to an excerpt of a transcript of the conversation obtained by The Associated Press.
The Last American Warlord
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 01/14/2017 - 1:47pmwar·lord (wôr'lôrd'): A military commander exercising civil power in a region, whether in nominal allegiance to the national government or in defiance of it.
