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19 Nov, 3 tweets, 3 min read
When senators from Mexico's PAN and PRI invited the Spanish party Vox to the Senate this past September, many were shocked.

In truth, especially for the PAN, this dalliance with Spanish neo-fascism represents a sort of homecoming. My latest in @jacobin.

jacobinmag.com/2021/11/mexico…
For the section on El Yunque, I drew on the work of @alvaro_delgado. For more information, read his 20-year work on the phenomenon and watch this excellent series with Alejandro Páez-Varela @paezvarela of the SinEmbargo TV program #LosPeriodistas.

And for the section on the origins of the PAN, @fisgonmonero has been lecturing on this for years, including this 2013 essay in @LaJornada that lays everything out.

jornada.com.mx/2013/06/09/sem…

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29 Oct
So now the European Union is "worried" about Mexico's electricity reform. Boo-fucking-hoo.😭

Maybe it should worry about its own disastrous and highly contaminating energy market before sending its delegations over here.

jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/10/…
Here is the breakdown of energy consumption in the EU in 2019: 36.4% petroleum products, 22.4% natural gas, and only 15.3% renewables. Germany, the EU's largest economy, is ramping up its use of coal. The continent as a whole is in crisis because of its dependence on Russian gas.
As I recently wrote in Jacobin (jacobinmag.com/2021/10/amlo-m…), what European energy companies are really concerned about is maintaining their ability to game the Mexican market by creating a parallel -and illegal- energy business.
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23 Oct
Memories of dictatorships and disappearances are very fresh in Latin America, so when Mexican opposition "leader" Claudio X. González insists that a list must be made of everyone who supported AMLO's 4T for when the Right gets back into power, the reference is hardly subtle.
On one hand, this is simple desperation. Things aren't going great for Claudio and his gang: they backed out of challenging AMLO in a 2022 recall and looked silly, their coalition might split over his energy reform, and the new budget limits tax deductions for their foundations.
But behind this is the unmistakable lurch of the Mexican opposition to the far-right. A month ago, members of the PAN and PRI signed a joint manifesto in the Senate with the Spanish neo-fascist party VOX.

animalpolitico.com/2021/09/senado…
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21 Oct
Amazing how the DEA's point person in Mexico during the Calderón administration has pled guilty to cocaine trafficking in conjunction with the Sinaloa Cartel and the US press just snoozes away...

mexiconewsdaily.com/news/ex-federa…
Trained at Quantico, Virginia, Reyes Arzate was the DEA's man. Who has the agency been arming and training? What did they know and when they did they know it? Instead of cowtowing to the "intelligence" community, the press should be demanding answers.
And it's not just Reyes. As @DoliaEstevez writes, the DEA has trained more than 2,000 Mexicans over two decades, running armed operations, conducting searches, planting informants, operating clandestine houses, wiretapping, recording, filming. All in conjunction with who? Image
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20 Oct
Iván Reyes Arzate, federal police chief under Felipe Calderón, has pled guilty in an NY Court to cocaine trafficking with an arm of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Reyes Arzate was trained at the DEA's Sensitive Investigations Unit and headed its ops in Mexico.

milenio.com/policia/ivan-r…
The guilty plea is another nail in the coffin for Calderón, the Sinaloa Cartel's favorite president, whose Security Minister, Genaro García Luna, is also on trial for running protection for the cartel.

eluniversal.com.mx/english/genaro…
It also raises fresh questions about the training and association of US "intelligence" agencies with cartel collaborators, just as the DEA is asking for its agents to be let back in to Mexico following last year's National Security Law.

proceso.com.mx/reportajes/202…
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25 Aug
The scandal rocking #Mexico, and that has caused an ex-presidential candidate to flee the country, is that the 2013-2014 energy reform was allegedly passed by paying off legislators w/money from the Brazilian firm #Odebrecht. Big stuff, but hardly mentioned in English media. Why?
Because, with few exceptions, Western corporate media are mouthpieces for multinational energy interests. The last thing they want you to know is that the law that opened up Mexico's energy industry to foreign investment is fraudulent to its core and could even be struck down.
Not reporting on this backstory has the additional advantage of making any prosecutions undertaken by AMLO's Attorney General take on the appearance of political persecution instead of the fruit of a long-simmering investigation.
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21 Aug
1. The 2018 presidential candidate from the conservative party PAN, Ricardo Anaya, has fled to the United States to avoid arrest on charges of accepting bribes and illicit enrichment.

tribuna.com.mx/mexico/2021/8/…
2. As I reported a year ago, Anaya stands accused of accepting some 6.8 million pesos worth of bribes in order to pass the energy counterreforms of 2013-2014, in his role as Congressman and Speaker of the House. (Full piece here: jacobinmag.com/2020/08/pena-n…) Image
3. The money -upwards of $10 million dollars- was funneled from the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht through the presidential campaign of Peña Nieto by means of Emilio Lozoya, who then became head of the state oil company PEMEX.

milenio.com/politica/odebr…
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