Behind the News: AMLO vs. Neoliberalism w/ Edwin Ackerman
Plus: Forrest Hylton on wildfires in Brazil.
September 30, 2024
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September 30, 2024
Behind the News: AMLO vs. Neoliberalism w/ Edwin Ackerman
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<p>Forrest Hylton, author of a <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/september/brazil-burning" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">recent piece</a> for the <em>London Review of Books</em> blog, talks about wildfires in Brazil and the political impotence of Lula’s administration. Edwin Ackerman discusses politics in Mexico as AMLO hands over power to Claudia Sheinbaum, having engineered a controversial overhaul of the judiciary.</p><br /><p>Read Edwin's article, "AMLO’s War on Neoliberal Corruption," originally published in <em>Catalyst</em>, here: <a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/09/amlo-morena-neoliberalism-corruption-mexico" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://jacobin.com/2024/09/amlo-morena-neoliberalism-corruption-mexico</a></p><br /><p><em>Behind the News</em>, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: <a href="https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html</a></p>
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