MBDA’s Alabama factory makes components for Boeing’s GBU-39 bombs used to kill civilians in Gaza. Its profits flow through Stevenage to Paris — and it is one of the British government’s favourite firms, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES

THIS Sunday June 2 it really is all up for grabs in Mexico, with the election of a new president, 128 senators, 500 deputies (MPs) in the lower house, nine state governors and many local mayors and local assembly members.
As Tony Burke explained very well in an article in the Star (A crucial juncture for Mexico, May 22) almost all polls give a huge lead — from 20 to 28 per cent — to Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate of Morena (or to be more precise, of the Let’s Keep Making History coalition with two smaller parties).
A distant second is Xochitl Galvez of the Strength and Heart for Mexico conservative coalition uniting the right-wing PAN, the previously dominant PRI and two smaller parties. In third place is Jorge Alvarez Maynez of the Citizens’ Movement, a centrist party with a very opportunistic record.

DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations


