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Tortured Victory
Guadalajara’s citizens achieve tenuous victory in the battle for clean water amid torture, forcible disappearances, and agent provocateurs torching Jalisco’s state capitol, as the governor relents on privatization.
Black Sunday in Guadalajara
Guadalajara’s clean water crisis boiled over this weekend after riot police armed with tear gas, stun grenades, and water canons confronted thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the governor’s mansion to protest the privatization efforts by the state.
Skin in the Game
Lady Gaga’s baby daddy and the Big Pharma interests behind the AI-driven personalized medicine gold rush.
Uber Peels Out of the Human Driver Business
Uber’s Exit from Nigeria left thousands of ride share workers in the lurch as the company pulls resources away from human labor to invest in self-driving cars, and bets on a post-human world.
Collaborators of Genocide
A schism in Mexico’s Palestine solidarity movement has exposed the nexus between a top Mexican Senator and Israeli military tech companies complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Mexico vs England: Pregaming the Rolex Revolution
Behind the MAGA-pilled, Trump-backed streamer, who gained access to the Mexican national soccer team, and why Mexico should lose.
Taken for a Ride
How Bus Fare Could Land Millions of Mexicans in an ICE Database and the Geoeconomics of the War on Drugs
Counterinsurgency and Propaganda
The Road to Securitization in Latin America
A Feast of Pigs
Marco Rubio and the Cuban-Americans