Laura Carlsen is a leading journalist reporting on Latin America and especially Mexico for US media. A familiar and always popular speaker in San Miguel, she updates us on the Mexican scene today from US-Mexican relations under Trump, to NAFTA 2.0, and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s accomplishments and challenges in his first year,
We will depart from San Miguel early in the morning to Patzcuaro, where we will spend three days. We will visit the most important buildings and churches in Patzcuaro and also visit a number of nearby indigenous villages:
We are a week before the inauguration of an unstable megalomaniac, totally unfit to be president. His loyalists control the Congress and the Supreme Court. And his stated agenda could destroy American constitutional democracy. Yet his political opposition hasn’t a clue how to respond.
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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,... Read more