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Mañanera del Pueblo

  • President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the Constitution, sovereignty, Well-Being programs, public education, US cooperation, and the Lie Detector.

  • President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public education, student mental health, phones in classrooms, and school renovations.

  • President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Cabeza de Vaca, candidate screening, García Luna, recovered funds, peacebuilding, and Mexican athletes.

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Analysis

  • Two Years, One Direction

    Two Years, One Direction

    La Jornada columnist Juan Becerra Acosta on Sheinbaum’s second State of the Nation Address: a 154% real minimum-wage rise, homicides down 51%, and 70% approval keep outrunning the opposition’s story.


  • The US: The Real Narco-State?

    The US: The Real Narco-State?

    “Washington isn’t interested in fighting organized crime within its borders… but in using drug trafficking as a pretext to interfere in other countries,” La Jornada argues.


  • The Sheinbaum-López Obrador Rupture

    The Sheinbaum-López Obrador Rupture

    “The salinistas who invoke a Sheinbaum-López Obrador split calculate that only a fight could hand them what they’ve failed to win on their own,” argues Delgado.


  • A Hundred Years After ‘La Cristiada’

    A Hundred Years After ‘La Cristiada’

    “The Cristero War stands as an example of the high cost that political struggles among the elites of power can have for society when they act irresponsibly,” concludes Meyer.


  • The Normalization of the Abnormal

    The Normalization of the Abnormal

    Palestine’s ambassador to Mexico, Nadya Rasheed, denounces the normalization of genocide in Gaza: more than 73,000 Palestinians killed, homes, schools and hospitals destroyed, water poisoned — and a world that looks away.


  • Wages: Reversing the Neoliberal Damage

    Wages: Reversing the Neoliberal Damage

    Wages now make up 30.8% of GDP (4.1 points more than in 2018) and labor poverty fell to 31.9%: the Fourth Transformation reversing decades of neoliberal wealth transfer to those at the top.


  • The Three Sovereignties: The Civilizational Crisis of the West

    The Three Sovereignties: The Civilizational Crisis of the West

    “The East does not reproduce the Western paradigm of a single dominant pole, but its opposite,” argues Rojas Silva.


  • Mexico’s Financial Sector Is a Shackle on Development

    Mexico’s Financial Sector Is a Shackle on Development

    Drawing on Mariana Mazzucato’s critique, Mario Campa argues that Mexico’s concentrated commercial banking and starved development banking hold back the country’s development.



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