News
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Habitat restoration is bringing birds back to the lake where Mexico’s government once planned a new international airport, a project canceled in 2018.
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Mexico granted her asylum after she reported police harassment, months after surviving a shooting allegedly ordered by the Argentine consultant.
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Platform workers covered by the new labor reform now top 1.7 million, while the average daily wage hit 664.7 pesos, a record for October.
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All 32 states cut their daily homicide rate, led by San Luis Potosí with a 77 percent drop, while perception of insecurity fell to its lowest since 2013.
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In a 34-minute video, AMLO’s son answered the businessman point by point and fired back questions on taxes, Fobaproa and TV Azteca.
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Sheinbaum says parties, including Morena’s own allies, sank her two reform bids to protect their proportional representation seats.
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Bolivia’s Foreign Ministry says it made no commitment to grant her safe-conduct; Beller says police kept guarding her home after she asked them to go.
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García Harfuch says his CJNG cell extorted avocado growers in Michoacán; 19 others were detained in the Navy operation in Zapopan, Jalisco.
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Consumption rose 27 percent from 2020 to 2025, to 85.3 kilos per person, though imports now cover nearly half of the pork the country eats.
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The goal: bring home archaeological pieces sold at auction or seized abroad, and stop the illicit trafficking that takes Mexico’s heritage out of the country.
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One borrower paid 338,000 pesos on a 104,000-peso loan and still owed 1.1 million; Sheinbaum says that scheme is over.
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The deal works out to nearly US$98 million per helicopter, counting the 27 engines, GPS navigation systems and satellite radios included in the package.
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After the midterm rout, Trump named Stephen Miller, architect of the ICE raids and the boat bombings, as his new White House chief of staff.
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With total phase-out set for 2030, Mexico is also capping imports of climate-warming refrigerants and has finished converting its commercial refrigeration industry.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on free health care, housing, the 2006 election, the 2027 budget, and misinformation.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on homicides, Michoacán, García Luna funds, and approval ratings.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the INE, Fox and the 2006 fraud, and Mexican culture.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Fox’s Stunning Confession – Soberanía 130
Vicente Fox admits he “made Calderón win” in 2006, the U.S. midterms seen from the Global South, Lula’s fourth-term victory, and the AP’s lazy Uruapan story.
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Analysis
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The American Dream Is Not Dead
An editorial on why the American Dream endures: the poverty and violence driving migration persist while U.S. and Mexican policies fail migrants.
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Mexico in the Work of a Modest Revolutionary
Raúl Castro’s newly published works reveal “the dialogue, fragmentary but not interrupted, between the two deepest and most far-reaching revolutions on the continent,” argues Jaime Ortega.
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2006: The Story of an Interrupted Victory
“The political force that germinated in that resistance reached the presidency in 2018 and renewed its mandate in 2024,” recalls historian Víctor Iván Gutiérrez.
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Reading AMLO
“That is hegemony: being able to offer a direction for society as a whole, governed from a social class that has conquered political power,” writes Mejía Madrid.
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Mexico Owns the Water. Who Can Use It?
From the poisoned Santiago River to the 1992 law that turned water into a commodity, Luis Eugenio Parés explains what it will take to make water a right again in an exclusive interview from our latest bulletin.
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PRI Members, Businessmen and Bankers, the Biggest Beneficiaries of Fobaproa
“The same banks that were saved in 1995 are, today, in their ordinary role as investors, collectors of the servicing of that same debt,” charges Rojas Silva in Contralínea.
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The Meaning of October 12
“Those lands were not empty, since they were populated by millions of native inhabitants who had lived on them for millennia,” notes Felipe Ávila.
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Mexican Book Fairs
“Book fairs in Mexico are among the great gatherings that speak of how a people nourishes itself on books,” observes Poniatowska.
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