There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
From the Ciudad Juarez tragedy to renewed success
DAVID RABY reports on the latest moves to navigate major crises such as immigration, drug cartel violence and energy sovereignty by Mexico’s progressive government
INTERNATIONAL TRAGEDY: Mourners in Guatemala carry Miguel Rojche, who died in a fire at a Mexican immigration detention centre in Ciudad Juarez
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
THE appalling fire which killed 40 migrants in a holding centre in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — on the border with Texas — on March 27 looked at first like a body blow to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his progressive policies.
Amlo has indeed indicated that it was for him one of the two most demoralising incidents in his term so far. But his reaction, followed by a remarkable series of successes, has swiftly restored his prestige.
He immediately took action to provide care to the survivors and to promote impartial investigation; a total of eight individuals have so far been arrested and charged, both local guards and regional officers of the notoriously corrupt National Migration Institute (INM) and one migrant who allegedly started the fire (reports indicate that the migrant was given a lighter by one of the guards, which if true strongly suggests an inside plot).
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