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"This is an independent, sovereign country:" AMLO and the end of Neoliberalism in Mexico w/Alex Aviña

The East is a Podcast

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The Importance of NAFTA in Mexico

Carlos Slim's message has been neoliberalism has been a terrible thing for Mexico, we're going to reverse it. And I think perhaps in the field of energy, this is the one area where you can really see an attempt being made to restructure the relationship between capital and labor. He essentially has gone along with this US regime, border regime, that essentially has abolished the right of people to come and seek asylum in the United States. The Mexican economy is thoroughly integrated into the American economy. It's a wing of it. It's straight partners. So yeah, no, it's completely a wing ofIt.

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