La legislación está lejos de ser lo que promete, pues de hecho refuerza la criminalización del consumo y se dispone a ser un proceso de privatización diseñada para recaudar impuestos pero que atenta contra la libertad de los consumidores. La ley impone nuevas normas que prohíben la producción de alimentos derivados del cannabis y la posibilidad de consumirla en el espacio público, implementando una serie de sanciones que se perfilan a convertirse en la puesta en marcha de una nueva ola de segregación para los productores rurales y los consumidores urbanos.
Author: Gabriel Petatan
Geógrafo interesado en los temas de modernidad, discurso crítico, epistemología y producción del espacio.
Vaccine geopolitics
Critics of the US model point to the deep political, economic and social crisis faced by Joe Biden’s government as the background to the United States’ monopolization of vaccines.
Is Merkel kind of a dictator?
In the larger scheme of the World, it’s not hard to certainly say that Angela Merkel has strong dictatorial streak. Much like every other level of German society – authority figures have very high discretionary rights and very little accountability. Not just chancellor (making immigration decision) but also teacher (grading students), landlords (preferentially renting house), or nightclubs (profiling Club goers at entrance). Also, long term chancellors are quite common in Germany. Kohl was chancellor for 16 years. Adenauer 14 years. This doesn’t mean that they are dictators. When they are elected out of office, they go. The comparatively long stays in office have more to do with the German dislike of all changes.
Bernie Sanders vs Donald Trump
Norway is far away, but Bernie could bring that peace of Norwegian woods that melt the best of the theory of the state and open market societies. Donald Trump thinks that the problem of everything is “Billionairing”. Fortunately, Economic thought in the XX century develops a remarkable experience of dictatorship ways, when the Communist Party…
Mexican Police rescue 107 Central American migrants near “The Wall”
During various operations, 107 Central American migrants were rescued in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, state authorities reported. According to a preliminary report from the National Migration Institute, there are 51 Guatemalans, 9 from El Salvador and 47 from Honduras. Of these 107 people, 72 were released by Tamaulipas authorities and the rest by federal institutions. The first operation,…
El presidente de México, a regañadientes liberal
La izquierda rara vez ha sido más fuerte en México. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, el nuevo presidente, ganó las elecciones del año pasado por un margen récord y tiene un alto índice de aprobación. Por primera vez, los legisladores de izquierda tienen mayoría en ambas cámaras del Congreso. Los partidos despreciados por López Obrador como…
Why Roma deserves the Oscar?
Is not about Trump, racism or something like that here. Is not about other films. Roma is something to see if you lived in Mexico City in the sixties and seventies. Mexico city as almost all Latin America was a background of the U.S. Military Forces. That is why the military took place in the…
Natalia Lafourcade: “I voted for AMLO with the hope of change, but we have to do it all together (interview)”.
Natalia Lafourcade wasn’t supposed to be here. She had made important plans. She thought she would be quietly at home in Mexico City with her father and sister, who has come to visit her from Chile. “I started a moment, space, to spend time with my family, at home, to reconnect with me, to compose…
With Argentina’s help, Mexico starts a search for the disappeared
The Mexican government has just assumed something that thousands of Mexicans have known and suffered for a long time: their territory became “a huge clandestine grave. This is how crude the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador recognized it this week when it launched a program to search for and identify the 40,000 disappeared who…
México: Legislative promotes an initiative that aims to double the minimum wage
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, promoted an initiative with a draft decree that aims to double the minimum wage in order to improve the distribution of wealth and reduce social gaps. The bill listed in the Parliamentary Gazette plans to reform Articles 90 and 94 of the Federal Labor Law,…
¿Qué es la Psicogeografía?
Esta es quizá una pregunta dficil de responder cuando se aborda un campo que ha comenzado a aparecer como resultado de los diálogos entres distintas disciplinas científicas. Por lo que todavía no es un conocimiento que sea reconocido por la mayoría de los científicos del mundo. Pero, sabemos que a Karl Marx le costó un…
Un Brexit ordenado depende de un partido conservador unido
Demos un paseo por los destartalados pasillos de la historia conservadora: es junio de 1997, y la dirección del partido, desocupada por John Major después de que el deslizamiento del Nuevo Laborismo está siendo disputado, en la segunda vuelta de la carrera, por William Hague, John Redwood y Kenneth Clarke. En un intento desesperado de…
