Mexico's 4th Transformation

Monday, February 3, 2025 - 1:00pm
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José Alfredo Gutiérrez Falcón

While much of the world is shifting to the right, Mexico is moving in a progressive direction. In 2018, the electoral victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA party) initiated "The Fourth Transformation" which is working, against entrenched opposition, to abolish corruption, reduce inequality and priviledged abuses as well as to restore national sovereignity. This year's election brought MORENA back to power with a landslide victory for Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first woman president. Sheinbaum is continuing to advance MORENA's impressive social and economic programs.

José Alfredo Gutiérrez Falcón is the author of a recent book--4T-- that describes the very unique and humanistic manner of governing that characterized the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He provides a an account of the social, political, and economic programs and projects established during his six-year term (2018-2024) that prioritize Mexico's historically excluded, marginalized, and forgotten populations.

UPCOMING TOURS

June 15, 2025 to June 25, 2025
Join us in an exciting visit to Cuba--a country committed to building socialism. We will learn about Cuba’s stunning accomplishments such as free health care and education, its collective production in agricultural and urban cooperatives, We will dialogue with leading thinkers about their visions... Read more
April 7, 2025 to April 11, 2025
Join us for an amazing trip to the old mining town of Zacatecas which was founded in 1546 after the discovery of silver deposits in the area by 4 Spaniards who risked their lives looking for gold, but instead ended up finding silver. This remote territory was inhabited by indigenous Zacateco... Read more

Upcoming Forums & Films

Monday, March 10, 2025 - 1:00am
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Laura Carlsen
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Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Meixco City-based international relations think tank, Mira: Feminisms and Democracies, and Coordinator of Political Analysis and Global Solidarity with Just Associates. She holds an interdisciplinary degree in Women’s Studies and a Masters in Latin American Studies, both from Stanford University. A dual... Read more

Monday, March 17, 2025 - 1:00pm
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Harry Targ
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Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Behind the turmoil of the Ukraine and Israeli wars, tensions between the United States and China, African contestation over neo-colonial political, economic, and military influence, and US meddling in the politics of Latin America, there are fundamental forces in play that seek to rearrange and change the architectures of global social... Read more