ARTIST NARSISO MARTÍNEZ
US THREATENS MEXICO’S CORN
50 YEARS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS
MEXICO’S OPPOSITION STRATEGY FOR THE COMING ELECTIONS
ZAPATISMO: THE NEXT ACT
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM CAMPAIGN LAUNCH
FAIR TRADE LABELS? CERTIFIED EXPLOITATION
THINKING ABOUT MASCULINITY WITH EL FISGÓN
THE EXPANDING US MONROE DOCTRINE
IS THE US PRESS MANUFACTURING CONSENT?
WHY MEXICO SOLIDARITY MEDIA?
News Briefs
  • SOBERANÍA 12 – Dirtying Elections Abroad

    SOBERANÍA 12 – Dirtying Elections Abroad

    The DEA, with the help of ProPublica, again interferes in Mexico’s election, grassroots efforts by university students to hold a mock election, catching up with Enrique Krauze and his horrible piece in the Financial Times.

  • Weekly News Items May 13

    Weekly News Items May 13

    UNAM Palestine encampment, maternity and labor, Ecuador vs Mexico diplomatic conflict, Cooperative Pascual, Trump and the “cartels,” economic development, mining workers rights.

  • SOBERANÍA 11 – USAID Corruption NGO Faces Corruption Allegations

    SOBERANÍA 11 – USAID Corruption NGO Faces Corruption Allegations

    Scandalous accusation surrounding the head of Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, bribery allegations against US Representative Henry Cuellar, false news reports on an alleged secret crematorium, and our bad coverage of the week from The Economist.

  • Weekly News Items May 5

    Weekly News Items May 5

    Canada losing to Mexico in investment, Palestine and repression, manipulated surveys, government will investigate lack of new collective bargaining agreements, and GMO corn.

  • SOBERANÍA 10 – Xóchitl Slings Mud To Save Campaign

    SOBERANÍA 10 – Xóchitl Slings Mud To Save Campaign

    The winners and losers of Mexico’s second presidential debate, Mexico City’s electoral watchdog censors talk about the housing cartel, and a look at Anabel Hernández’s forthcoming book.

  • Weekly News Items April 27

    Weekly News Items April 27

    The Drug War as process of corporate accumulation, Nestle’s dirty deeds, PT promises to push Sheinbaum left, amparo and pension reforms, GMO corn, social change in China and Mexico.

  • SOBERANÍA 9 – Pension Predators vs. Pension Protectors

    SOBERANÍA 9 – Pension Predators vs. Pension Protectors

    Pension reform, the regional response to Ecuador’s invasion, and the campaign in Chiapas.

  • Weekly News Items April 20

    Weekly News Items April 20

    Mexico-Ecuador embassy and lawfare rift, glyphosate dispute, US pressure on Mexico to limit trade with China, Sheinbaum interview, the neoliberal intellectual crisis.

  • SOBERANÍA 8 – Another Xóchitl Gaffe

    SOBERANÍA 8 – Another Xóchitl Gaffe

    Xóchitl Gálvez scorns millions of people who rent their homes in Mexico & the Mexican opposition’s lawfare campaigns.

  • Weekly News Items April 15

    Weekly News Items April 15

    Private water hoarding, INE attempts to disenfranchise Mexicans abroad, fallout from the embassy attack by Ecuador, Indigenous rights and trade.

ANALYSIS
  • Meizhu Lui

    More Than Food: US Threaten’s Mexico’s Corn

    In response to AMLO’s ban, the US filed a suit to force Mexico to accept US GMO corn. Will Mexico, like China with the Opium War, be forced to import a product they judge unsafe for their people and harmful to their native agriculture?

  • Mexico Solidarity

    Alejandro Robles Gómez, Migrant & Mexican Congressman

    Since 2021, as a Morena representative in Congress, Alejandro Robles Gómez has been a strong advocate for human rights, migrant rights, and uplifting the poor.

  • Meizhu Lui

    Judge Ociel Baena: Hero/Heroine

    In November 2023, Jesús Ociel Baena-Saucedo, Mexico’s first openly nonbinary magistrate, was killed. An interview with the poet Edwing “Canuto” Roldán.

  • Meizhu Lui

    50 Years of the War on Drugs

    For 50 years, the US framed the drug crisis as a national security issue rather than as a public health issue, thus the rationale for a disastrous military strategy, explains Patricia Escamilla-Hamm.

  • Steven Fry

    Tren Maya: Facts vs Emotional Hype

    The whole 1554 km Tren Maya route crosses 330,540 sq. km of rain forest yet destroys less than 35 sq. km of these rain forests

  • Meizhu Lui

    Solidarity Crosses Borders – and Oceans

    An interview with author and solidarity worker Dr. Francisco Dominguez on building solidarity with Mexico in the UK.

  • Mexico Solidarity

    Mexico’s Opposition Strategy for the Coming Elections

    Analysis of the dangers and prospects surrounding one of Mexico’s most importat elections from the México Solidarity Project and Mexico Solidarity Forum.

  • David Bacon

    A Strategic Cross-Border Labor Alliance

    A relationship between a U.S. and a Mexican union, forged in the face of NAFTA, has borne fruit over decades of struggle. Two leaders reflect on the importance of international solidarity.

  • Kurt Hackbarth

    Zapatismo: The Next Act

    Leonardo Toledo, a scholar from Chiapas explains how cartel conflict and a glut of weapons are creating a perfect storm in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state and birthplace of the Zapatistas.

  • Mexico Solidarity

    SNTE, 80 Years of Corruption & Corporatism

    Avila Camacho’s government created it to control teachers, who were heavily influenced by the Communist Party, highlights expert.

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