Mexico
Mexican government closes electric utility, sacks 44,000 workers
By Rafael Azul, October 15, 2009
Earning praise from Mexico’s financial sector and Wall Street, President Felipe Calderón ordered the sudden liquidation of Mexico’s Luz y Fuerza del Centro public electrical utility, wiping out t...
Mexico: President Calderon calls for “doing more with less”
By Rafael Azul, September 14, 2009
Mexican President Felipe Calderon called for doing ‘more with less’ when he presented to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies his 2010 budget.
Mexican economy in free-fall
By Rafael Azul, August 26, 2009
The Mexican economy shrank at an annual rate of 10.3 percent in the second quarter of 2009, the worst economic performance since 1981.
NAFTA summit papers over divisions between US, Mexico and Canada
By Rafael Azul, August 14, 2009
This week’s NAFTA summit in Guadalajara ended without any agreement on confronting the deep economic crisis that has swept the North American continent.
Mexican state of Michoacán under military state of siege
By Carlos del Rocío, July 22, 2009
The deployment of 2,500 more Mexican army troops to the state of Michoacán signals a major escalation of the US-backed “war on drugs” being waged by the Calderón government.
Mexican election results: an escalating crisis of class rule
By Rafael Azul, July 13, 2009
The defeat of México’s ruling National Action Party (PAN) at the hands of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the July 5 midterm election signals an escalating crisis of bourgeois rule.
Capitalism’s deadly toll: 44 children dead in Mexican day care fire
By Rafael Azul, June 9, 2009
A fire that swept through the ABC day care center in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora state in northern Mexico June 5, has claimed the lives of 44 children, while leaving at least 30 others in critic...
Mexico’s “war on drugs” employs army torture and police-state tactics
By Rafael Azul and Kevin Kearney, May 25, 2009
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission, an independent government agency, has reported that the Mexican army is torturing citizens just across the US border in its war on drug cartels.
Mexico: Epidemic deepens the social crisis
By Bill Van Auken, April 30, 2009
With the death toll in Mexico’s swine flu epidemic having risen to at least 159, measures taken to halt the spread of the disease are deepening the country’s economic slump. Meanwhile, criticism o...
Washington escalates “drug war” intervention in Mexico
By Bill Van Auken, March 27, 2009
With its reinforcement of federal agents on the border, increased aid to the Mexican military and visits by Secretary of State Clinton and other top US officials, the Obama administration is escalatin...
Pentagon drafts border plan as Mexico hits US protectionism
By Bill Van Auken, March 19, 2009
The Mexican government imposed a set of tariff increases this week against some 90 US imports in retaliation for the Obama administration signing legislation that ended a pilot program allowing Mexica...
Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico’s “war on drugs”
By Kevin Kearney, February 9, 2009
A report issued by the United States Joint Forces Command warns that “chaos” and a potential government collapse generated by Mexico’s “war on drugs” may pose a threat to US security requiri...
