Ron Johnson’s unauthorized police academy in Querétaro, AMLO’s return with his new book “Pueblo,” Brazil’s tight Lula–Bolsonaro runoff, and Meta censoring journalism.

In episode 127 of Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth open with another case of U.S. interference — this time in Querétaro, where Governor Mauricio Kuri and Ambassador Ron Johnson broke ground on a police training academy without federal authorization. The hosts explain how this violates Mexico’s National Security Law, which explicitly requires high-level federal approval for any security cooperation with foreign governments. They note the pattern: Chihuahua and now Querétaro, PAN-governed states where the U.S. is pursuing a “subnational strategy” to work around the federal government that defends Mexican sovereignty.

Next, they discuss AMLO’s return via a video promoting his new book, “Pueblo.” In a wide-ranging 90-minute address, he criticized Ron Johnson as “a meddling policeman,” denounced U.S. hypocrisy on drug trafficking, and dedicated the book to Claudia Sheinbaum, calling her “the best president in the world” — definitively debunking the opposition’s fantasy of a rift between them.

The conversation then turns to Brazil’s presidential election, where Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro are separated by just two points heading into a runoff. The hosts analyze the structural challenges facing the Latin American left: late capitalism, low growth, and a far-right that promises to “get the state off your back” while offering nothing but nihilism. They note that Brazil’s high abstention rate (over 30 million voters) could be decisive, but warn that convincing non-voters to turn out is an uphill battle.

Losers and Haters takes aim at Instagram and Meta for removing their video reporting on Bolsonaro’s sex parties and suspicious gifts, claiming it violated community standards on sexual violence — even though it was journalistic reporting on a public scandal. The hosts note the irony: the same platform that briefly suspended Lula’s ads is now censoring critical journalism while allowing fake election-day ads to flourish.

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