Mexico City The day started ominously in Mexico City as I walked at dawn towards the Zocalo. First the Alameda, one of my favorite parks in the world, was encased in a plastic, invisible wall indicating some form of construction for some indefinite amount of time. Then the Palacio Belles de Artes was blocked by …
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Releasing Carlos Slim’s Stranglehold on Mexico
New Orleans Spending any day in Mexico City with Suyapa Amador, head organizer of ACORN Mexico, involves at least one and sometimes two and three stops at local stores to buy minutes for her cell phone. Thanks to the virtual monopoly that Telcel, a subsidiary of America Movil owned by gazillionaire Carlos Slim Helu, not …
Assault on the Rights of Workers in USA and Mexico
New Orleans When I was working the streets as an organizer, and now that I’m still working the “allied trades,” my rule of thumb was that if a name was mentioned to me twice, that meant I needed to find the person, and if three times, I needed to do it immediately, to build the …