Mexico’s corrupt military enjoys unlimited power and near total impunity. Review: Generals at the Gates: Military Power and Social Change in Mexico, Dawn Marie Paley, 2026, Verso
Categories: Mexico
Rot in the barracks
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Tag: Corruption
Poor politicians
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Corruption should never be defined by emperors. The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil, Aaron Ansell, 2025, Hau Books
Categories: Brazil, Mexico, North America, South America
Beasts in the shadows
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Dread has been a significant factor in the Mexican definition of childhood. The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico: Media, Childhood, and Child Kidnapping 1900–1968, Susana Sosenski, translated by Quentin Pope, 2024, Bloomsbury Academic
Categories: Mexico, North America
Country of the disappeared
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Mexico’s cynical state is often the source of crime, not its scourge. Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs, Shaylih Muehlmann, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
The DEA has attacked López Obrador: should we believe it?
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It’s impossible not to read this episode as an assault by a section of the DEA on the López Obrador government, writes Carlos A Pérez Ricart
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
