Briefs
  • CLICKS NOVEMBER 20

    CLICKS NOVEMBER 20

    Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including price controls bring groceries even cheaper, right wing hatred, Canada tries to divide Mexico & US, 40 hour workweek, Sheinbaum criticizes arms spending, Trump tarrifs, US ambassador Ken Salazar can’t shut his mouth.

  • Soberanía 35: Sheinbaum at the G20

    Soberanía 35: Sheinbaum at the G20

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called on countries to use 1% of money spent on defense to instead fund a global reforestation program & also reiterated Mexico’s call for a reform of the UN and Security Council.

  • Soberanía 34: Mexico Is A Free, Independent, Sovereign Country

    Soberanía 34: Mexico Is A Free, Independent, Sovereign Country

    What does Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections mean for the Mexico-US bilateral relationship? President Claudia Sheinbaum has her answer.

  • CLICKS NOVEMBER 11

    CLICKS NOVEMBER 11

    Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Biden admin plans a final insult to migrants, Chiapos and narcotrafficking, Canadian mining corporate crimes, ending relations with Israel, Garrido Canabal, judicial reform moves forward.

  • Tren Maya: is another tourism possible?

    Tren Maya: is another tourism possible?

    A video featuring voices and viewpoints in relation to the dilemmas and opportunities with the Tren Maya, calling for project authorities to decisively commit to the strengthening of community-led tourism.

  • Soberanía Live: Democracy on the Line

    Soberanía Live: Democracy on the Line

    Mexican Coup Plots and US Elections

  • CLICKS NOVEMBER 4

    CLICKS NOVEMBER 4

    Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO’s public infrastructure, judicial reform fight, informal workers, anti-corruption advances, FIFA corruption and Mexican bourgeoisie, NAFTA, unions win wage increase, US continues to bully Mexico over Chinese trade.

  • Mexico Demands Arms Embargo Against israel

    Mexico Demands Arms Embargo Against israel

    Mexico joined 53 countries and organizations calling to stop arms shipments to israel.

  • Soberanía 33: Mexico’s Private Right-Wing TV Networks Are in Trouble

    Soberanía 33: Mexico’s Private Right-Wing TV Networks Are in Trouble

    It’s fun watching Mexican oligarchs get their comeuppance: Televisa Chairman Emilio Azcárraga Jean falls and TV Azteca problems. Claudio X. González is a “toxic failson”. And in the Losers and Haters, Ryan Berg and academics like him.

  • CLICKS OCTOBER 29

    CLICKS OCTOBER 29

    Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including minimum wage increases, Chinese investment, climate change policy, labour reform for gig workers, new house-to-house health program, protests against Canadian mining.

  • Soberanía 32: Rogue Judge Seeks to Jail Mexican President

    Soberanía 32: Rogue Judge Seeks to Jail Mexican President

    One judge thinks she can overrule 36 million voters, Genaro García Luna, Donald Trump’s lies about Chinese automakers in Mexico and Kurt and José Luis also discuss Sheinbaum’s plans to build 1 million housing units & efforts to improve children’s health.

  • CLICKS OCTOBER 21

    CLICKS OCTOBER 21

    Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Chinese investment, the crimes of Garcia-Luna, DEA corruption, border theatre, a new labour central, US-Mexico corn war, gig workers labour reform, and upcoming restrictions on politicians doing business.

  • Soberanía 31: “HOLD UP, Ken!”

    Soberanía 31: “HOLD UP, Ken!”

    Tired of US Ambassador Ken Salazar running around Mexico like he owns the place, President Claudia Sheinbaum put a short leash on him, ordering the US diplomat to refrain from accessing her cabinet members directly and instead requesting meetings through the Foreign Affairs Secretariat, as it should be.

  • LEFT RECKONING 189 w/ HACKBARTH & GRANADOS CEJA

    LEFT RECKONING 189 w/ HACKBARTH & GRANADOS CEJA

    Soberanía: The Mexican Politics podcast hosts Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja appear on Left Reckoning to discuss President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first few days as leader of Mexico.

  • Soberanía 30: Life Comes at You FAST

    Soberanía 30: Life Comes at You FAST

    Mexico’s New President Claudia Sheinbaum Tackles Early Challenges: Security, Hurricanes and a Judicial Coup Plot.

  • CLICKS OCTOBER 8

    CLICKS OCTOBER 8

    Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Sheinbaum and Brugada inaugurations, Airbnbn regulation comes to Mexico City, DEA torture in Latin America.

  • Sheinbaum’s Vision for More Sovereign Mexico ‘Will be a Fight’ with USA

    Sheinbaum’s Vision for More Sovereign Mexico ‘Will be a Fight’ with USA

    MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth interviewed on Breakthrough News

  • Soberanía 29: Mexico Makes History: Claudia Sheinbaum Presidenta

    Soberanía 29: Mexico Makes History: Claudia Sheinbaum Presidenta

    Soberanía goes over Sheinbaum’s first speeches as president, including the president outlining her 100-point agenda. Plus, the mañaneras are here to stay!

  • Claudia Sheinbaum’s 100 Points

    Claudia Sheinbaum’s 100 Points

    100 points outlined in Sheinbaum’s first speech as the newest President of the Mexican Republic, with photos.

  • CLICKS SEPTEMBER 29

    CLICKS SEPTEMBER 29

    Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US Democrats turn hard right on border, SME union wins advances, AMLO nationalizes a port, the 43, energy reform, USMCA renegotiation, Acapulco flooding, the CIA and sexual violence, and corrupt Mexican billionaire and tax scofflaw tries to bribe Supreme Court.


  • Whoever Wins, Mexico Loses

    Mexico yearns for peace, but that requires a coordinated, multifaceted strategy, not US unilateral actions, be it a Republican or Democrat in the White House.


  • Mexico Rising: Under AMLO, a Sharp Left Turn

    An interview with historian Edwin F. Ackerman on the political origins, activities and legacy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.


  • Health Care Where There Is No Doctor

    Part 1 of an interview with David Werner, radical author and health and social justice activist, co-founder and director of Healthwrights on his experience with campesino medicine.


  • Mexico’s transformation advances with President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum

    “It is the Time of Women” proclaims Claudia: her own election is symbolic of a much broader change.


  • ¡Reforma Ya!

    Mexico’s political institutions reflect majority opinion; Morena is in power because the country’s political system allows third parties to grow (it’s only ten years old) and because most people support its policies, including democratizing the judiciary.


  • Sovereignty Is Never Up for Negotiation

    The sort of interference proposed by Brazil and Colombia is an affront to sovereignty, even when it comes from friendly governments.


  • Nature and/or Economic Development?

    In this interview, agroecologist Dr. Cecilia Elizondo explains a new “both/and” model of development being tried in Mexico of agro-ecology, wholistic development and food sovereignty.


  • Ambassadors Salazar & Clark Win the Negroponte Prize

    Ken Salazar, US ambassador, and Graeme Clark, Canadian ambassador, need an intensive course in the basics of international diplomacy.


  • Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left

    Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.


  • Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike

    An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.

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