News
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The decree takes effect Tuesday and covers even pre-2023 concessions, with Supreme Court backing that holding a concession grants no automatic right to mine.
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Of the 152 projects, 50 are brand-new hospitals; the plan adds 13,300 census beds by 2030, more than triple the neoliberal era’s 4,300.
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Nearly 3,000 pre-Hispanic relics, 804 of them from Mexico, fill the Shanghai Museum in Asia’s largest such show since 2001, drawing 10,000 visitors a day.
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The FDA apologized to Taylor Farms after wrongly blaming Guanajuato-grown lettuce supplied to Taco Bell for an outbreak; no positive samples were confirmed.
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Corn imports hit 12.28 million tons, almost all US yellow corn for livestock, while white corn for tortillas fell as domestic harvests stabilized supply.
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Eight federal agencies will jointly buy generic, cancer, and anti-infective drugs for 2027-2028, with deliveries slated to begin in January 2027.
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Fans began arriving before six in the morning for the Spain-Argentina final, and by halftime Civil Protection had declared the plaza at full capacity.
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Mexico’s Attorney General says Ingemar, the ex-Baja California governor’s company, moved 3.07 billion pesos through Intercam, tied to Texas fuel smuggling.
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The first 12 locomotives arrived in Puerto Morelos for the army-built Maya Train cargo line, which opens in January across five southeastern states.
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The ‘far-left political terrorism’ meeting was deemed political, not security cooperation; Washington has already been notified of the decision.
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The US returned Mexico’s letter over four Adelanto deaths, telling it to use ‘diplomatic channels’, even as 18 have died in ICE custody under Trump II.
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Sheinbaum is expected to fly commercial to Sunday’s World Cup final in New York alongside Canada’s Mark Carney, returning to Mexico on Monday.
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Ruffo Appel is among 25 facing warrants; the ring moved Texas fuel by rail, declaring 10% of each tank car and costing the treasury over 4 billion pesos.
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Chihuahua’s right-wing PAN government signed the Israel water pact without registering it with Mexico’s federal foreign ministry; groups in 14 states march August 1 to cancel it.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on new hospitals, the World Cup, migrant protection, youth crime prevention, and U.S. security cooperation.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on foreign relations, sovereignty, voting rights, children online, and the Ruffo case.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Quintana Roo, security, tourism, Ruffo Appel’s arrest, and cooperation with the U.S.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Claudia Sheinbaum Takes on the ICE Killing Machine – Soberanía 115
Mexico escalates its fight against ICE abuses with criminal complaints and UN action, Baja California’s governor is caught in a leaked visa audio, and the AIFA airport train becomes a commuter hit.
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Analysis
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The Communities That Held Venezuela Together
After the June 24 earthquakes flattened La Guaira, the communal councils Venezuela built years earlier became the relief network sanctions couldn’t stop.
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If USMCA Disappears in the Next Decade, It Would Be the End of Economic Liberalization
Ahead of the July 20 USMCA review, UAM economist Carolina Hernández Calvario argues Mexico’s development project would outlive free trade, urging “strategic anticipation.”
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Hugo Eric Flores and the Evangelical Far Right
Hugo Eric Flores launches PAZ, his third evangelical party; a career opportunist who has passed through the PRI, the PAN, and Morena, always to hand the evangelical vote a party.
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Somos MX and the Media: Does Mexico’s New Party Revolve Around Salinas Pliego?
Somos MX, a new opposition party to Morena, is built less on a social base than on Mexico’s media oligarchy, including allies of magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
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When a Certain Argentine Right Hates Mexicans
“There is no spontaneous Argentine-Mexican conflict; there is a transnational circulation of narratives produced by influence networks, media, and algorithms that turn any disagreement between leaders into antagonism between peoples.”
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US Agencies, Especially the CIA, Pressure Mexico’s Sovereignty
Four US agents caught in Chihuahua exposed illegal intelligence on Mexican soil, reopening the debate over the CIA’s reach and Mexico’s sovereignty.
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Colombia’s Left After the 2026 Election: Defeat, Renewal, and the Future of the Pink Tide
A razor-thin conservative victory has not ended Colombia’s progressive movement. Organizers, unions, students, and community groups are already preparing for the next four years.
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The United States: Between Interference and the ‘Fight’ Against Drugs
The State Department’s INL bureau spent $819.8M in Mexico under AMLO, funding SAT-flagged NGOs and Venezuelan coup-plotters behind Bukele’s territorial-control plan.
PHOTOS
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CNTE Strike Day 3: Teachers vs Privatized Pensions
Photos of the Mexican teachers actions at private banks in Mexico City which manage workers pensions, whether anyone wants them to or not.
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Petróleo Mexicano para los Cubanos!
Solidarity protestors gathered outside of the former location of the Embassy of the United States on Reforma in Mexico City on Sunday, demanding that Mexico send oil to Cuba and expressing their disavowal of Trump’s recent assault on the island and its people.
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Mexico City Mass March for Venezuela, Maduro & Flores
Defense of sovereignty and a unified continental response to US imperialist aggression comprised the collective agenda of the 10,000 strong march.
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Trump, Hands Off Venezuela Rally
Mexicans rallied outside the new US embassy in Mexico City, expressing solidarity with Venezuelans and demanding US President Donald Trump cease his aggression against the Bolivarian Republic.
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600k in Mexico’s Zócalo for Seven Years of the Fourth Transformation
Photos of the anniversary commemorating the Mexican party Morena & social movement the Fourth Transformation forming government.
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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.
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Massive march brings over 20,000 into Mexico City streets for Palestine
Various social and political organizations participated, as well as students and a substantial number of trade unions, including the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas and Sindicato de Trabajadores de la UNAM.
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CDMX with Palestine
On Saturday, October 28th, Chilangos marched in solidarity with Palestine from the Angel of Indepence to the Zócalo,
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Mexico City in Solidarity with Palestine
Over 10,000 rallied in Mexico City in solidarity with Palestinians
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XXII Feria Internacional del Libro
For this edition, tributes were made to Almudena Grandes, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, Carlos Martínez Rentería and Elena Poniatowska.
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Energy Reform Vote
Mexicans gathered at the Chamber of Deputies to show support for a bill to amend the Mexican Constitution regarding the energy sector