Ramón I. Centeno, Author at ZNetwork https://znetwork.org/author/ramon-i-centeno/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 02 May 2025 15:04:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png Ramón I. Centeno, Author at ZNetwork https://znetwork.org/author/ramon-i-centeno/ 32 32 Mexico’s USA Problem https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-usa-problem/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-usa-problem/#respond Fri, 02 May 2025 15:04:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283274 Donald Trump is on a rampage. His second presidency is off to an even more explosive start than the first. Much of Trump’s approach consists of trial and error, feeling out where he’ll encounter more or less resistance. There isn’t always a plan, but there is a goal: to protect the United States from a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-usa-problem/feed/ 0 On the Dusty Trail of Sonora’s Water Millionaires https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-dusty-trail-of-sonoras-water-millionaires/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-dusty-trail-of-sonoras-water-millionaires/#respond Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:03:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267870 Mexico has a problem that is rarely discussed but that affects people in towns and cities across the country: the scourge of water millionaires. “Water millionaires” are private users with concessions for one million cubic meters or more of water per year, according to Wilfrido A. Gómez-Arias and Andrea Moctezuma, who have done groundbreaking research [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-dusty-trail-of-sonoras-water-millionaires/feed/ 0 Sheinbaum and the Generals https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sheinbaum-and-the-generals/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sheinbaum-and-the-generals/#respond Sat, 02 Mar 2024 17:14:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263005 Mexico now faces what Max Weber called “the problem of succession,” which emerges when a country has a charismatic leader. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is Mexico’s most consequential political leader in nearly a century—to find a president of comparable impact, one must go as far back as President Lázaro Cárdenas. AMLO, a textbook case [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sheinbaum-and-the-generals/feed/ 0