I have been finishing to read the book AntiDrug Capitalism(is from an author that could be considered trotskyist) and this part made me hate the US more.

The translation of the highlighted part is the following:

In 2011, Pemex filed a lawsuit in Houston against ten US oil and pipeline companies for collaborating with organized crime by buying stolen natural gas from Mexico’s Burgos Basin.

“The cartels built tunnels and their own pipelines to facilitate the theft … All defendants have participated in and profited - knowingly or unknowingly - from the trafficking of illegal condensate into the United States and thereby encouraged and financed the Mexican organized crime groups that stole the condensate,” the complaint states.

All of these entities have been militarized as part of the drug war, and some of them have high levels of displacement due to war-related violence.

Thinking about how to translate USian into Dutch. I was thinking about Verenigde Statener for people, and Verenigde Statenlijk to describe something. Of course you can shorten it to Statener and Statenlijk.

How nice of you-know-who to finally admit that they have nuclear weapons. I just love honesty.

I feel like more countries should do the “the king is not invited” strat that mexico is doing, its a pretty efficient way to delegitimize opposition parties and media. Genius really, in mexico you now have the same guys that decry dictatorship defending a literal monarch lmao.

AI21 labs is an isntreal company. I’m boycotting their AI. You should also. they released Jamba LLM models.