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.
News
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The US Treasury Department provided no evidence, but did provide a list including many transfers made with legally incorporated Chinese companies, raising suspicions that the US is attempting to limit Mexico-China trade.
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The comments were made by US Attorney General Pam Bondi during a Senate Approprations Committee hearing.
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While some Mexican communities suffer up to 40 days without water access, private concessions hoard the resource, even re-selling it illegally. The government is reviewing only 326 concessions of a national total of 538,000.
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Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including GM workers voting on union membership, Canadian mining crimes, upcoming women’s conference, the long drive to the 40 hour workweek, Trump admin plans for counterinsurgency in Mexico, the attack on Iran, Sheinbaum at G7, ICE custody deaths and microfinance bankruptcy.
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Israel Attacks Iran: Mexico Calls for “Dialogue,” US Attacks Iran: Mexico Calls for “Dialogue.”
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Russia’s energy minister also stated that his country is interested in collaborating with Mexico in the electricity sector.
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Secret judgements have allowed some of Mexico’s most prominent corporate citizens and members of the ruling class to escape fiscal responsibilities.
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There was a slight reduction in inequality from 2019 to 2024, but Mexico is the tenth most unequal economy in the world.
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The Iranian Embassy in Mexico acknowledged Sheinbaum’s influence and called on her to condemn Israeli’s unprovoked attack on Iran.
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Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including Sheinbaum attends G7, US stranding deportees in southern Mexico, judicial elections, Morena politician in dust-up with US Undersecretary of State, Los Angeles uprising, and continuing issues with Morena’s novel recruitment strategy.
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In addition to medical, hospital, and pharmaceutical care, self-employed members receive benefits such as workers’ compensation insurance; financial support in the event of disability or death; retirement, old-age, and severance pay; as well as access to childcare and social benefits
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The healthcare brigades will make visits to the people with disabilities and the elderly across the state.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference with comments on US accusations against Mexican banks for money laundering, “wellbeing” hubs, and United Nations payments.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on infrastructure development, Hurricane Erick, telecommunications reform, Train Maya, INE autonomy, and the controversy around Campeche governor.
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Claudia Sheinbaun’s daily press conference, with comments on addressing roots of violence, public security, national intelligence system, National Guard reforms, INE, dissolving CONEVAL, and censorship accussations.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference with comments on gasoline prices, education reforms, post-secondary education, attacks on Iran and Palestine, PEMEX, and the three guiding principles of the Fourth Transformation.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference with comments on Hurricane Erick, app worker protections, assistance for Mexicans in US and the Zionist entity, and the new consular corps.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Soberanía 64: World on the Brink
Can Mexico find its voice in an international crisis? With the moral vacuity of the global north devastatingly evident with each passing day, a voice like Mexico’s is desperately needed on the world stage.
Analysis
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Against Cuba: A Fetid, Arbitrary and Despotic Obsession
The oil Cuba requires to sustain its energy demands in the face of vicious US sanctions and financial attacks is truly minimal compared to Mexican production.
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A Great American
Paul M. Sweezy’s 1962 interview with the 51st President of Mexico, the socialist General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.
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Lázaro Cárdenas and the American Left
Both Lázaro Cárdenas and Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review understood that politics of anti-imperialism and national liberation, to be effective, must foster alliances across borders.
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Marked by Violence, Promoting Peace
Migrant farmworker Maria Elena Valdivia is at the forefront of the fight against the US’ H-2A temporary visa program, a form of legalized human trafficking which provides the heavily exploited labor that creates American agribusiness profits.
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Unpunished Destruction
Canadian mining company Equinox Gold has been extracting gold from Guerrero for decades. Now it wants to close the Los Filos mine, leaving behind environmental degradation, exploitation and emiseration, while pocketing big profits.
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Trump’s Attack on Los Angeles Meets the Resistance
While the current situation is fraught with challenges, Trump’s racist campaign has also sparked a broad and diverse resistance movement.
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Passing It Down
An interview with Esmeralda Jazmín Alonso Guevara, coordinator of Casa Obrera del Bajío, where they organize to counter the historic attacks that capitalism has inflicted on Mexico.
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The Offensive Against Migrants is Against All Workers
Migrants are not new, but they are now a massive product of the enormous difficulties that countries in the South have faced in the face of the onslaught from the Global North, which has prevented countries from attempting to escape dependence and subordination.
PHOTOS
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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,