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Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador or AMLO became the president of Mexico on 1 cover samsung s4 mini moschino December. coque samsung j3 2017 harry potter The leader of the Morena (National Regeneration Movement) party, Lpez Obrador comes to the presidency from the left. His inaugural address laid out clearly the two reasons why half of the Mexican population lives in poverty: the neo liberal model of economic and political governance as well as the ‘most filthy public and private corruption’. Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max diamond supply co logo pattern Z5291 Case Lpez Obrador said he would not prosecute the administration of his predecessor because ‘there would not be enough courts or jails’ for the guilty. mega charizard coque iphone 11 Over the past four decades, Lpez Obrador emphasised, Mexico has followed a disastrous policy framework neoliberalism which has been a calamity cover samsung s6 dragon ball for the country’s public life. For a glimpse into theTricontinental: immagini cover samsung galaxy s5 Institute for Social Researchtheory of neoliberalism, please read our first In the Ruins of the Present.

One hundred and thirty million Mexicans looked towards Lpez Obrador for some leadership. Since the Third World Debt crisis of the early 1980s, states such as Mexico have been forced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and global financial markets to cannibalise their wealth. Mexico’s resources were gifted to cover samsung tab3 gigantic international firms and to its own financial oligarchy (led by Carlos Slim Hel, one of the world’s richest men, whose wealth comes cover samsung galaxy j5 on line from the pillage of public resources, such as when the State delivered Telmex Mexico’s communications monopoly into his hands in 1990). coque samsung galaxy a7 2018 harry potter cover custodia case iphone 11 O0677 venom wallpaper 67oY0 It is worth recalling the ebay custodia a libro samsung galaxy s4 years from the debt crisis to the fire sale of Mexico’s public assets, which the World Bank

At that time, Alvaro Cepeda Neri wrote inLa Jornada, ‘The booty of privatisation has made multi millionaires of thirteen families, while the rest of the population some eighty million Mexicans has been subjected to the same gradual impoverishment as though they have cover samsung galaxy tab a sm t580 suffered through a war’. coque pour wiko y60 stitch Plunder defines Mexico’s history, from the seizure by the United States of half of Mexico’s land in 1848 (including gold rich California) and the deflation of Mexico’s potential by NAFTA from 1994. coque iphone 6 plus pour garcon It is too much to ask of Lpez Obrador’s government to solve all of Mexico’s problems in one term. anime tiger coque iphone 11 coque iphone 4 gratuite The new government custodia cover huawei p10 lite cannot change everything. nike air max fjallraven kanken no 2 backpack navy anbu coque iphone 11 But it can start to shift the direction of state policy.

Left wing governments in the hemisphere, under immense pressure from the United States, gathered around Lpez Obrador custodia cover samsung j3 for his inauguration. cover custodia case iphone 11 U6097 fullmetal alchemist wallpaper 21mQ4 There was Bolivia’s custodia portafoglio samsung a5 2016 Evo Morales and Cuba’s Miguel Daz Canel. Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max Case IH X00031 Case Venezuela’s Nicolas cover samsung note 4 puro Maduro came despite immense pressure from Mexico’s right wing and liberals to rescind his invitation. Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega did not come. The pressure from the United States is not trivial. coque samsung galasy s7 US President Donald cover samsung s9 trasparenti Trump’s administration has coined a phrasetroika of tyrannyto refer to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The United States is eager to pursue regime change in one or all of these states (as I note in cover samsung s4 up myTricontinental: Institute for Social Researchfellows Jipson John and Jitheesh PM and please read Andrew Korybko’sHybrid Wars, freely downloadable

The image above is made by Elena Huerta Muzquiz (1908 1997), one of Mexico’s great Communist artists.

South of Mexico custodia cover samsung s6 edge City, in Buenos Aires, the Group of Twenty (G20) states met, chatted amongst themselves and then withdrew to their custodia samsung s 3 various intractable crises. The meeting was held at the Costa Salguero convention centre tucked away from the loud and clear voices of the protestors. The protestors came because, as the office of theTricontinental: Institute for Social Researchin cover samsung a70 2019 della sianey Buenos Aires notes in its regular

No real deal could custodia cover huawei y5 2018 cover samsung s9 game of thrones come out of the G20 because the crisis of capitalism cannot be solved from within the framework of neo liberalism. nike soldes Only cosmetic changes can be made, only more can be asked of an already exhausted population around the planet.

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A more important meeting takes place this week in Vienna (Austria) at the headquarters of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), guarded by Austria’s elite WEGA para military detachments. coque silicone bumper souple disney lilo et stitch Here, Russia and Saudi Arabia came to an understanding that oil prices should be go higher. lot de coque samsung j3 Now that the United States has strangled Iran and Venezuela, it is seen as acceptable cover samsung a10 trasparente to let oil prices drift upwards. Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max Deadpool Game of Thrones X4766 Case There are no solutions here. India and China have been seriously contemplating the establishment of an oil buyers’ club (as I report). There will be many more of these episodes over prices of fuel and over the destruction of the climate.

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