Dawn Marie Paley /// Editing Ojalá.mx an Introspective Look at the Latin American Left and Feminisms

In this conversation, recorded on March 20, 2025, Léopold and Sofía speak with Dawn Marie Paley. With Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, she is the co-founder of Ojalá, a digital weekly dedicated to journalism and analysis that aims to foster a common sense of dissidence. Dawn speaks about her motives for launching Ojalá, born from a broader lack of critical leftist reportage on leftist regimes in Latin America, specifically in the English-speaking world. She discusses the role of feminism and autonomous indigenous organizing to these struggles, to the work of Ojalá, and to the recent marches across Mexico for March 8th, the first International Women’s Day under president Claudia Sheinbaum.

Dawn Marie Paley is a Mexico-based journalist and the author of Drug War Capitalism (AK Press 2014) and Guerra neoliberal: Desaparición y búsqueda en el norte de México (Libertad Bajo Palabra 2020).  

Ojalá and The Funambulist have both published texts by Gladys Tzul Tzul (who is also part of Ojalá‘s editorial board), Lisbeth Moya González, Yasna Mussa, Victoria Furtado, and Verónica Gago, which partially indicates the influence Ojalá has had on us!