This video, part three of a series, explores the social consequences of the BP oil spill. The disaster has destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands of fishermen and small business people, and experts say it may uproot whole communities and trigger mass migrations.
Pentagon plans drone strikes, shifts resources “toward combating cartels” in Mexico
Threats of drone strikes are part of an increasingly aggressive exercise of gunboat diplomacy to subordinate Mexico and the wider region to colonial status.
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As Trump’s tariffs take effect Stellantis announces thousands of layoffs in Canada, Mexico and US
Stellantis will “temporarily” idle its Windsor Assembly Plant in Canada and Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico. About 4,500 workers in Windsor will be impacted. Some 2,600 are employed at the Toluca facility.
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones, Jerry White•
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Teachers strike across Mexico, while Guadalajara water workers hold strikes and protests.
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Mexican ruling class rallies behind President Sheinbaum after Trump delays tariffs
Far from defending “the people of Mexico,” the Morena party government represents the transnational corporations and their Mexican capitalist clients above all.
Andrea Lobo•
WSWS reporting team•
Roger Jordan•
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Keith Jones•
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