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14 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1. #Mexico's conservative-majority Electoral Tribunal @TEPJF_informa has stripped #MORENA of 3 Congressional seats won in June's midterms. And it is suspected they may try for more, including governorships the party won in Michoacán and Campeche.

politica.expansion.mx/mexico/2021/08…
2. The magistrates, meanwhile, are embroiled in scandal with their former leader, José Luis Vargas, resigning as head of the tribunal on charges of illicit enrichment and his replacement, Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, resigning shortly thereafter.

elpais.com/mexico/2021-08…
3. For its part, the Electoral Institute is appealing a ruling by the Supreme Court that it is not exempt from the Maximum Salary Law -which prohibits federal officials from earning more than the president- in order to continue to earn lavish salaries.

proceso.com.mx/nacional/2021/…
4. Needless to say, the Electoral Institute and Electoral Tribunal are two sides of the same coin of a corrupt electoral system that is in urgent need of reform.

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5 Aug
1. On the second anniversary of the #ElPasoShooting, #Mexico is suing 10 US gun manufacturers and distributors for their responsibility in flooding the nation with arms.

Some 70-90% of the arms found at Mexican crime scenes can be traced to the US.

nytimes.com/2021/08/04/wor…
2. US manufacturers make some $250 million a year on selling arms to Mexico, knowingly targeting the market with guns that have Spanish nicknames, quotes, even the engraving of Emiliano Zapata's face (the model used in the killing of journalist Miroslava Breach by Sinaloa Cartel)
3. As I wrote at the time of the shooting, Mexico's strict gun-control laws are constantly undermined by US laxity. Indeed, nearly 1/2 of US dealers depend upon sales to Mexico to survive. Illegal trafficking of arms to Mexico isn't even a federal crime.

jacobinmag.com/2019/08/el-pas…
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20 Jul
1. The #PegasusProject reveals the extent of the police state created in #Mexico under presidents Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto: using software from the Israeli firm #NSO, some 15,000 numbers were potentially hacked, including 25+ journalists...

theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
2. ...and no less than 50 people close to #AMLO, then a presidential candidate, including his wife, sons, brothers, advisors, even his cardiologist.

One of the hacked journalists, Cecilio Pineda Birto, was subsequently assassinated.

theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
3. The software was originally purchased by Calderón -NSO's first international client- whose Defense Department made a massive purchase in 2011. His Security Minister García Luna was also heavily involved in Israeli-exported spy technologies.

sinembargo.mx/20-07-2021/400…
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19 Jul
1. In another attempt to disqualify Mexico's referendum on prosecuting crimes of prior administrations, the Right's new coordinated talking point is that the question is "too complicated."

True to form, @TheEconomist incorporates this in another of its amusing anti-#AMLO rants.
2. The original, crystal-clear question submitted by the president was modified by the Supreme Court, a question the magazine's hacks only mention in passing after mockingly leading you to believe the "absurdist" wording was written by AMLO. Here's the original text:
3. "Do you agree or not that the competent authorities, in accordance with the law and applicable procedures, investigate and, as appropriate, sanction the alleged commission of crimes by former presidents [names] before, during, and after their respective administrations?"
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12 Jul
THREAD: In my latest piece in Jacobin, I lay out a (non-exhaustive) list of areas @PartidoMorenaMx should tackle in the next session of Congress in order to maintain its mid-term momentum. These include:

jacobinmag.com/2021/07/mexico…
1. TAX REFORM: The government's own figures tell the story: large earners pay 1.3% in income tax while everyone else pays an average of 25.4%.

*Raise taxes on the rich and earmark revenues for national health care or a massive solar investment.*

jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/06/…
2. MINING: The conquest continues - between 2010-2018, five times more gold was extracted from Mexico than during the entire colonial period.

*Take on mining companies (largely controlled by Canadians & Americans) and immediately nationalize lithium.

jornada.com.mx/2019/08/21/soc…
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10 Jul
1. On May 3, we bought two, 20 kg cylinders of natural gas for $800 pesos in Oaxaca. Today, the same two cost $928, a 16% increase.

In response to these & other increases, #AMLO announced this week the creation of a public gas distributor. Of course, the Right went apoplectic...
2. Either arguing against intervention in the "market" or contending there were "other ways" to control these increases, without saying what they were.

Three companies control the gas market here. This is an oligopoly, something the Right used to be against -or pretended to be.
3. Mexico is full of such oligopolies, from media (TV, newspapers) to pharmaceuticals to banks to supermarkets. And every time AMLO goes after one of them, the response is vicious. Just look at how the drug companies have been trying to protect theirs:

infobae.com/america/mexico…
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4 Jul
1. "On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed...
2. "Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy. That self-deception started early.
3. "When the first English settlers moved into Indian land in Massachusetts Bay and were resisted, the violence escalated into war with the Pequot Indians. The killing of Indians was seen as approved by God, the taking of land as commanded by the Bible.
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