#art#history: i promised myself that this year would be the one during which i paid tribute to the revolutionary, frida kahlo (born #otd in 1907), & then i was too busy to do her any sort of justice. not only have i rushed her portrait, but i've also had no time to write up the sort of blurb that she merits. she was a death-defying, genre-spanning communist powerhouse & diego was punching waaaaaaaay up. :) #fridaKahlo#illustration#sketch#artist#mexico#communism
The U.S. and Mexico are experiencing another border dispute, and this one is about water. The conflict stems from an 80-year-old treaty where the countries agreed to share water from the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. However, because water is in more demand but scarcer than ever, sharing has not been going according to plan #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Mexico#USA#waterwar
This first book provides an understanding of the roots of modern-day #Mexico. Seen chronologically, the book starts in 1466, when the fictious Mexícan narrator is born. The book...
“Between here and the port of entry where they would be processed—wherever it was—another cartel operated. The migrants said they didn’t have anything else to give and were afraid of what the next cartel would do to them.” https://www.texasobserver.org/between-the-concertina-wire-and-the-cartel/
80 countries, including #Ukraine, and 4 European institutions signed the final joint communique of the #Switzerland peace summit on June 16, according to a #Kyiv Independent reporter on the ground.
Among the countries notably absent from the list of signatories are #India, #Armenia, #Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, #Thailand, #Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates.
So “influencers” are disappearing online. I knew about the economic troubles in the country based on imports & exports of raw goods, as well as the numerous wealthy people crossing the border in #Texas from China 🇨🇳.
Mexico’s president-elect brings climate science background to office
Sheinbaum is seen as a close ally and protégé of Obrador, but her work on climate change and her support for renewables is in contrast with the Obrador administration’s advocacy for expansion of fossil fuels
#Mexico just elected it's first female president and her biggest priority is ending poverty. If she's successful, we're gonna have people jumping the border in the opposite direction. Now who's the 'shithole country'? 😅
#ClaudiaSheinbaum was elected #Mexico’s first female president in a landslide on Sunday, an official quick count of votes showed, cementing the dominance of the left-leaning Morena movement that over the past 6 years has upended the country’s political establishment. Her victory stunned an opposition that’s accused Morena of weakening the country’s democratic institutions.
Excellent news. Well done Mexico for electing your first woman Jewish president who’s also left-wing & a climate scientist. And probably a compliment that US mainstream media & politicians don’t like her. #Mexico Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as first woman president https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp4475gwny1o
I am glad the #Catholic church negotiated a truce, but what is going on in #Mexico 🇲🇽 is alarming!
“By some counts, in nine of 32 regions Mexico’s government has ceded control over governing institutions and land. Others say a fifth to a third of territory is “ungoverned spaces,” as a U.S. general noted a couple years ago.”