Briefs
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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.
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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.
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Soberanía 30: Life Comes at You FAST
Mexico’s New President Claudia Sheinbaum Tackles Early Challenges: Security, Hurricanes and a Judicial Coup Plot.
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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.
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Sheinbaum’s Vision for More Sovereign Mexico ‘Will be a Fight’ with USA
MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth interviewed on Breakthrough News
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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!
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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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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.
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Soberanía LIVE: Goodbye AMLO
Sunday, September 29th: a very special live episode of Soberanía with co-hosts Kurt Hackbarth & José Luis Granados Ceja and special guests Violeta Vázquez Rojas & Juan Pablo Morales Garza.
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Soberanía 28: Mexico’s January 6th and Other Acts of Extremism
From storming the Senate Chamber to attacking elected officials out in public, supporters of the political right in Mexico are increasingly turning to extreme forms of protest.
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CLICKS September 21
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Indigenous and Afro-Mexican reform, US initiates Sinaloa violence, CIA agent rapist, Noroña & friendship with China, Mexico snubs NATO puppet Zelensky
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Soberanía 27: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
AMLO Victory on Judicial Reform Triggers Opposition
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CLICKS SEPTEMBER 14
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including judicial reform, China-Mexican relations and (as usual) gringo interference.
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Soberanía 26: Democratizing the Courts
What does Mexico’s constitutional reform of the judiciary actually intend to accomplish?
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CLICKS SEPTEMBER 7
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO’s final informe, US corps drying up Mexico, judicial reform, nearshoring jitters, child labor declining, and violence in Chiapas.
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EXAMINING MEXICAN POLITICS PT 1 w/ GRANADOS CEJA & HACKBARTH
Appearance on Class, the official podcast of the National Political Education Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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LEFT RECKONING w/ HACKBARTH & GRANADOS CEJA
Hackbarth & Granados Ceja discuss AMLO’s final days in office and the fight to continue to build from the victories of MORENA.
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SOBERANÍA 25 – OPPOSITION IN DISARRAY
Morena supermajority, the recent independent media gathering, AMLO’s final ‘Informe’, where in the world is Ovidio Guzmán, and a Canadian addition to Losers & Haters.
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De Chile, Mole y Pozole: Stories from Oaxaca
Writer, playwright, and journalist Kurt Hackbarth is a naturalized Mexican citizen living in Oaxaca. Committed to getting new writers published, he and his partner, Nidia Rojas, created their own publishing house.
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Internationalist Training Course
A call to the leftist, feminist, popular and anti-imperialist militants of the continent to join the Internationalist Training Course: A Minimum Floor.
ANALYSIS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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¡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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Terrible Ignorance of Norma Piña
Much to the consternation of relics of the neoliberal order like Supreme Court President Norma Piña, more than 80% of Mexicans back a major change to the judiciary, blackened with a legacy of widespread accusations of corruption, questionable rulings and failing to deliver justice to victims.
PHOTOS
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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.