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Puebla: on the radar Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero The appointment of the constitutional president of the United Mexican States, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, regarding the collaborators on the issue of security and governance that the substitute governor Salomón Céspedes decided to incorporate, is a sign that Puebla -the entity- no longer goes unnoticed by part of the Fourth Transformation. There is no space to point out a "dark shadow of lopezobradorismo" as was previously thought. There is a closeness between Lopez Obradorism and Puebla that cannot be considered a collusion. I wish that a little more would be done because the topics are endless, although starting already counts for a lot. The information provided by the federal Ministry of the Interior regarding the members of the state cabinet constitutes antecedents that forced them to present resignations, it is a message not only for the group that directs the state government but for the political class that is now ...

 Emptiness and PRI Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero The resignation of the Institutional Revolutionary Party by a group of distinguished politicians and militants led by Miguel Osorio Chong has demonstrated the insufficiency that distinguishes the former Official Party towards the political process of 2024. The PRI is a party that remains and this constitutes a drag more in the configuration of the Broad Front for Mexico. The turncoat ended up generating the total migration of PRI cadres and professional politicians to leave the political institute as a barren land, a Castile, full of nostalgia and the dead. Although the recent electoral process in Coahuila and the State of Mexico made the PRI appear strengthened by the level of competitiveness demonstrated in both electoral processes, the departure of important lineages in the configuration of the historical PRI leaves the political party in the hands of a leadership who behaves like a goat in glassware from the beginning of his h...

Roads of Michoacan Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero From the perspective of some neoliberal geographers, part of the explanation of poverty in Mexico is related to dispersion. The conclusion of this perspective on development prescribes simple situations, although many times impossible to carry out. In the south of the country, this strategy developed under technocratic and authoritarian impulses, distinguishes concepts such as Rural-Cities, Smart Cities or Cluster Cities. At a sufficient distance to interpret the results, the only thing that can be evidenced is the neo-extractivism and gentrification behind these projects, in addition to the accompaniment of organized crime, sometimes foreign mercenary, as well as totalizing government corruption. Chiapas, one of the starting points of post-neoliberal neo-extractivism, is dangerously close to situations of ungovernability and very serious regional conflicts. The conflict is generated to promote the displacement of human groups to the ...