News
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President Sheinbaum called for the meeting this morning, “to review this situation,” stating the Mexican government does “not agree with how these attacks are taking place.”
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Amigos por el Campo pointed out that Altagracia Gómez as president of one of Mexico’s corn monopolies & a key advisor to President Sheinbaum, might contribute to the government’s unwillingness to resolve the dispute.
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Outside Mexico’s National Palace, they called on the federal government to “not fall into the game of passing the buck”, for President Sheinbaum to listen & comply with their 2023 agreement or they would implement a national work stoppage.
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Mexico’s Peasant Agricultural Movement & National Union of Agricultural Workers deployed throughout the country for the second time in as many weeks, demanding the government set a minimum price on corn and end the destruction of their livelihoods caused by decades of free trade.
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Teachers from Valles Centrales disrupted a political event orchestrated for a new party being formed by ex-governor of Oaxaca Ulises Ruiz Ortiz , responsible for repression against teachers in 2006 which led to 20 murders & multiple disappearances.
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The new program will also move to regularize employment conditions for agricultural workers, along them to access social security benefits.
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Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including US businessmen & fuel theft rings, Mexico’s most hated politicians, Plan Mexico, USMCA negotiations, blocked Tulum Hotel & an Old Mexican Bolshevik.
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One of the signature projects of the AMLO administration, the airport will be served by the new Suburban Train, bringing passengers from Mexico City to the airport in less than 45 minutes.
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2.5 million books with 25 titles aimed at people between 15 & 30 will be given away to promote Latin American literature, explained the director of Mexico’s state publishing house.
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Members of the CNC attended the Listening to the Voices of the Field forum at Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies to address their concerns about the budget directly to legislators
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The exodus left Mexico’s southern border after reporting that their asylum applications took months, even more than a year, and that they didn’t have the necessary resources to wait.
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The plan will begin to fulfill Mexico’s Constitutional mandate to guarantee the effective exercise of the rights of Afro-Mexican peoples.
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Mexico’s National Water Commission is pushing for the mining industry to be allowed to dump toxic waste into rivers, despite President Sheinbaum’s stated environmental objective to clean up contaminated tributaries.
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2025 will close with record levels of imports, with most of the grain coming from the US, along with genetically modified yellow corn.
Solidarity
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Jaime is a militant leader of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union, who had been organizing workers at an open-pit mine owned by Orla Mining of Vancouver, BC, Canada. His life and the lives of his family are being threatened.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Durango dam construction, stipends for students, campaign against addictions, Grupo Elektra’s tax debts, ex-President Zedillo, and alleged attack against Harfuch.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on monitoring price gouging, Women’s pension, flood emergency, Grupo Salinas’ tax debts, relations with US and Zedillo.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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El Taller: Busting Myths of the Tren Maya with Étienne von Bertrab
Party two of an interview with the lecturer at University College London, about his new graphic-book Más allá: una historia del Tren Maya.
Analysis
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To Wage the Cultural Battle?
The still significant legacy of the Mexican Revolution has had a dampening effect on the growth of the extreme right, but meeting them as adversaries legitimizes them.
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Washington Wants War
This editorial by La Jornada’s editorial board originally appeared in the October 25, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of Mexico Solidarity Media, or the Mexico Solidarity Project. The Donald Trump administration is sending…
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Wrangler Mexico & Surplus Value Extraction
Although value is produced in Mexico and Central America, it is only realized in the United States and Europe, where the final products are consumed.
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Corrupt & Reactionary
Mexico’s ultra right PAN & Ricardo Salinas Pliego may be separated for now, but there’s nothing to prevent them from formally joining forces in the 2030 election.
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Tulum: An Overdue Bill for a Sold-out Model
Overpriced and rife with obnoxious, depthless “expats” and privatized beaches, the tourism crisis that hit Tulum has sparked an outbreak of schadenfreude, but beyond the deserved scorn, can Tulum tourism be reformed?
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The Power of International Alliances
Mexico and other countries face powerful resistance to approve necessary reforms such as the reduction of the work week, which must be made a reality.
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Campesinos Ride Again
Last week’s strike by agricultural producers against the USMCA and the uncontrolled entry of subsidized grains from the US is part of a fight for Mexican food sovereignty that demands the government’s full attention.
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The Second Floor & Its Pending Mission
In the name of consensus & pragmatism, control of recovered strategic spaces is beginning to be ceded, & Mexico’s Fourth Transformation risks dissolving into directionless management, discourse without conflict, & change without power.
PHOTOS
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Mexico City Mobilizes on 2nd Anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, Against Genocide of Palestinians
Thousands marched in support of Palestinian national liberation, demanding Mexico break relations with the genocidal state of israel.
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Mexican Trade Unions for Palestine March Against Gaza Genocide
The march was organized by a coalition of 300 of Mexico’s trade unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations, and made five demands of the Mexican government.
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THUNDER OVER MEXICO
Publicity stills from Thunder Over Mexico, a film edited from the remnants of an aborted project by Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein.
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MAY DAY: MEXICO CITY MARCH
International Workers Day was commemorated in Mexico as unions marched from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s 100 Points
100 points outlined in Sheinbaum’s first speech as the newest President of the Mexican Republic, with photos.
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Mexico Votes!
Mexicans voted in election in the largest election in the country’s history. More than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs, as well as the Presidential position, which was won by Claudia Sheinbaum of Morena.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Close
Hundreds of thousands filled the Zocalo and side-streets in Mexico City to attend the closing event for Mexican Presidential candidate Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum.
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CDMX Rally Against Ecuador’s Attack on Mexican Embassy
The provocative assault was ordered by the ultra-right wing government of Miami-born, nepo-baby Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Launch
Hundreds of thousands crowded the Zócalo and beyond in Mexico City. Sheinbaum polling over twice the amount of her nearest competition.
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Mexico City Global Day for Palestine
The demand was made for Mexico to end diplomatic relations with Israel.