Author: Dawn Marie Paley
DAWN MARIE PALEY is a journalist and author of Drug War Capitalism. She recently joined the editorial board of New Politics.
Mexico remains very close to the colonialist state of Israel, with which it is a close collaborator. Israel has an embassy, a trade office, and four honorary consulates in Mexico. It actively promotes Israeli companies, which export the tools for war with the full backing of the Mexican government and army.
Ecuador has begun to experience a pattern of violence similar to that of Colombia and Mexico.
In their review of Gaudichaud et al.’s book, “The Impasse of the Latin American Left,” Paley and Whitener call for greater focus on autonomous social movements.
Residents and migrants in Ciudad Juárez have ramped up protest in the wake of the fire that killed forty men detained by the National Migration Institute.
It is ironic that those who most ardently declare their anti-imperialism are the same who believe there’s no subjectivity except U.S. subjectivity: no protest against states they deem anti-imperialist is possible without Washington’s approval, money, or agents spurring it on.
Dawn Marie Paley analyzes the rising feminist movements, state repression, and transphobia in Mexico today.
