Mexico had four presidents during the Cold War who were on the CIA payroll. Much more effective than dual citizens, as one US politician recognized decades ago:
immigration debate will go nowhere until we all come to terms it is deeply inhumane to have such massive differences in living standards across the globe and expect people to just accept that
Anyone who prevaricates about ‘prison abolition’ and ‘police abolition’ should do themselves a favor and get themselves arrested over something relatively minor, experience first hand what police, jails, correctional officers, prosecutors, courts, etc. It is all horror.
I like Paris Texas, the works of Dennis Hopper, and things of that nature because I also think of myself as being at the intersection of "european arthouse intellectual" and "legitimately insane american of the big sky west"
"Historical progress" is a term that is purposefully ambiguous and can be twisted to justify or support any number of things, but it's pretty clear to me that Mexican Independence was far more liberatory for the people who lived there than American Independence was for its people
Drug cartels do not exist is not a literal statement of truth but a reminder that Mexican drug-trafficking gangs are small, regional, fragmented, and controlled by the US-backed military and police; and that big splashy takedown ops of alleged drug lords are usually pure theater