Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Resigns to Run for President

EPISODE: Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Resigns to Run for PresidentGUEST: Independent journalist Alina Duarte who joins us from Mexico CityBACKGROUND:Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, one of the leading contenders to be the country's next leader, said on Tuesday he will resign to focus on winning the presidential nomination of the ruling MORENA party for the 2024 election.Ebrard, a former mayor of Mexico City, wants to succeed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the standard-bearer of the left of center National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), which now dominates national politics.FOLLOW OUR GUEST:Alina DuarteFacebookInstagramTwitterEn Re PodcastFacebookInstagramTwitterYouTubeADDITIONAL LINKS:Una jugada maestra, Lopez Obrador resuelve la sucesiónMexico’s Fourth Transformation and Why the U.S. Wants to Stop ItVI Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), Desde Palacio Nacional (Septiembre 2021)238 Aniversario del Natalicio de Simón Bolívar, desde el Castillo de Chapultepec (Julio 2021) OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America,