Tag: Mexico
Americans Need a Congress that Represents Americans
The Congress opposes a wall to stop illegal immigration to the US, but it’s financing Israel’s wall to keep Palestinians out of their own country.
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From Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees
Refugees escaping to the US or Europe are perceived as the invaders, rather than the US and its allies who’ve helped cause the reasons for their flight.
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The USMCA and Trump’s Quest for ‘America First’ World Trade
The era of post-1945 multilateralism is fading. After the revised NAFTA, Trump’s dream is U.S.-dominated world trade and the ‘America First’ Asian Century.
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Toward ‘America First’ NAFTA
Despite the Trump administration’s frantic last-minute efforts to hammer the NAFTA agreement, the attempt failed within the US timeline, so the talks continue. Why is the revised deal so important to the White House?
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Economic Reality Will Temper the Statist Tendencies of Mexico’s New President
López Obrador’s more radical impulses will likely have to be tempered by a modernizing Mexico that is dependent upon a free-market economy.
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Mexico’s Historical Election and Obrador’s Triumph
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has long haunted Mexico’s ruling elites, and his coalition’s election triumph could align policies with the will of the people.
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Paul Craig Roberts on Real Journalism vs. the Mainstream Media
In the US, journalists lie for the government because they are patriotic, and their readers and listeners believe the lies because they are patriotic.
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Yankee Blowback: Rising Number of Immigrants
The US does have a moral obligation towards immigrants because so many are escaping a situation in their homeland made hopeless by US foreign policy.
Read MoreMexico’s Foreign Policy towards Israel-Palestine and Iran (2006-2012)
This paper examines the foreign policy of Mexico under the Presidency of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2006-2012) towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Iran. Ignorance and indifference are singled out as determinants of the prevalence of ideology in Mexico’s stances, depending on its combination with other variables. To support this argument, I focus on the ends and purposes, and on agency, in order to assess the relationship and combination of ideological solutions with a pragmatic stance vis-à -vis these two Middle Eastern political files. Mexico’s apparently pragmatic stance is best explained by Mexico’s dependent relationship with the United States and the articulation of both countries’ interest groups. However, such pragmatism does not in itself escape the ideological logic in that its assumptions and judgments seem to have been particularly guided by value-oriented preferences of the foreign policy leadership, foremost President Calderon himself.
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