Lopez Obrador's Plans to Lead Mexico out of Neoliberalism

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Mexico Elects a New President.

Among the first acts of the new government was the signing of an “Integral Development Plan” with the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, many of whose citizens have joined the continued exodus through Mexico toward the United States. Although few details are known, the agreement includes development measures for the three countries to reduce forced migration. The leaders signed the pact without the U.S. government—a departure from the Washington-led initiatives that in part have caused the exodus.  

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Amlo promised the migrants alimientacion y medical treatment.

Univision. 

When Liberals Criticize Liberals About the Election

And don't consider the consequences to the Latino Community.

Dissent Magazine has posted an article entitled, "The End of Progressive Neoliberalism,"
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/progressive-neoliberalism-reactionary-populism-nancy-fraser
Since Dissent does not permit comments on their articles, I will post my response below.

Thank you for the piece, The End of Progressive Neoliberalism by Nancy Fraser from Dissent. I wondered how folks such as the writer justified the position of not organizing all available forces to defeat Trump.  It is good that you came out of the closet. I think you represent many, I have been looking for someone to speak up from this perspective ( not my own).

From your essay you seem to consider the contamination of our politics by the Clinton, neoliberal machine as a greater danger than the potential victory by Trump and his neoliberal proto fascists.

I have some issues of dissent from your piece. There is a left in the US.  Weak, yes, but it exists. For example the CCDS says of the election,

“”The movement for justice and progress in the U.S. has suffered a great setback. And the depth of the reactionary movement that led to this setback was underestimated by most on the left. It’s necessary to reflect on what it has taught us and about our shortcomings but it’s also vital to assess our strength to meet this great challenge.”   I think they are referring to your position  when they say,

“And the depth of the reactionary movement that led to this setback was underestimated by most on the left.”

Democratic Socialists of America’s position is here:

http://www.dsausa.org/we_fight_for_socialism_dl_npc

There were a good number of socialists ( not liberals) who worked night and day to defeat Trump including myself.  Most did so on some form of this perspective.

http://www.dsausa.org/trump_racism_and_the_left_dl

While you make good points in criticizing liberals  ( you call them  progressive neoliberalism), I encourage you to continue to explain your own view.

I will use data from California  in response since I know the data from here more than national data. The Trump election is most likely going to eliminate health care for some 2-4 million children, in particular the children of the undocumented.  Some 2-4 million workers ( immigrants) now face deportation.  At least 40 % of these are parents of U.S. citizen children.

These and other consequences are described here:

http://www.dsausa.org/tags/strategic_racism

Neoliberalism and the Universities - Rudy Acuña

 Neoliberalism Privatization - Impact on Professors and We the People

By

Rodolfo F. Acuña

Stanley Fish, “Neoliberalism and Higher Education”, wrote that few of his colleagues had ever come across the term “neoliberalism” or knew what it meant.   

According to Fish, neoliberal principles are embedded “in culture’s way of thinking [and its] institutions.” While the term neoliberal is not frequently used, its supporters “mime and extend neoliberal principles on every opportunity.” 

On university campuses in a relatively brief time this ideology has changed the mission of academy from an institution searching for the truth to a marketplace.

Privatization is the cornerstone of neoliberalism. Privatization is touted as the silver bullet that will solve the funding woes of “social security, health care, and K-12 education, the maintenance of toll–roads, railways, airlines, energy production, and communication systems.” According to them, the private sector can run them cheaper and more efficiently.

Cornel West: President Obama Doesn't Belong on Any Shirt with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X

Cornel West: President Obama Doesn't Belong on Any Shirt with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X

Mas de 50,000 Estudiantes Politécnicos Marchan al SEGOB.

Ignore the ad.

More than 50,000 Mexican students march to resist neoliberal education "reforms" and corporate control. Sept. 30,2014

Mexican President Peña Nieto comes to California Capitol

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is visiting the Sacramento capitol this week and his publicity machine is in full motion getting plaudits written by paid publicists. If Governor Rick Perry came to California and made a report on the state of the economy in Texas would you accept his report without skepticism ?  As a counter balance, here are two recent posts on this blog about the actual conditions in Mexico.   The first is  excepts from a review of David Bacon’s book and the second is a post by Bacon on the PRI's assault on labor in Mexico.   There is much more to say. I recommend Bacon’s book, and the book Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey though a country’s descent into darkness.  by journalist Alfredo Corchado. (2013).

From A review of David Bacon’s The Right to Stay Home.

By Duane Campbell

The U.S. public is  engaged  in a sustained and divisive debate over immigration. Unfortunately, at the same  time , most in the  U.S. do not recognize that U.S. economic policy,  particularly NAFTA created many of  the conditions that produce the very immigration of some 8 million people  that many on the Right and the Tea Party   so oppose.

The passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 accelerated a neo-liberal form of economic growth in Mexico that drove poor farmers, particularly in the indigenous south to lose their farms and their livelihood.  In  response  young men, and increasingly the young women,  made the dangerous trek to the U.S. in search of work and an income to feed their families and keep their families from losing their  farms.