Briefs
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CLICKS APRIL 27
Sheinbaum to ban gringo propaganda, missing persons progress, undocumented Americans in Mexico, Mexico biggest poverty reduction in Latin America, social housing, Mexico City metro durgging, corridos contra femicides, Mexican nationalism, & Morena and Workers Party relations.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 25
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the progress on improving labour conditions, the new Telecommunications Law, criminalization of 3D printed weapons, judiciary trust funds allocated to social security, judicial elections, and the search for María del Carmen Morales and her son Jaime Daniel.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 24
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Grupo Modelo investment, foreign investment, Shared Prosperity projects, Plan Mexico, minimum wage, Silvano Aureoles, Telecommunications Law reform, & Claudia’s letter to Morena.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 23
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on a national network of women community organizers, 678 women’s centres to be established, hotline for misogynistic violence, early registration for pension for women ages 60 to 64, 5 new childcare centres, Claudia’s letter to Morena, defense of Ariadna Montiel.
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SOBERANÍA 55: TRUMP MILITARIZES BORDER ZONE
Donald Trump has militarized the border, to get US troops to take part in the deportation of migrants, the questionable Ecuadorean election and Mexican President Sheinbaum’s pledge to not restore relations; also, why is Mexican private media running Trump’s anti-migrant ads in primetime?
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 22
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public security, the Teuchitlán case, Pope Francis’ funeral, Plan México, judicial reform transparency, corporate involvement in education, dubious IMF outlook, and Claudia’s book report.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 21
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the passing of Pope Francis, gasoline price controls, digitizing the bureaucracy, National Digital Investment Window timeline, three proposed legislative reforms, rethinking parliamentary immunity, denying Ecuador’s allegations, US government propaganda discriminatory, and universal social programs.
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CLICKS APRIL 20
GM workers win big wage hike, Ecuadorean propaganda provocation, new plan to tackle the housing crisis, PT and Morena issues, corporate hotel malfeasance, Marco Rubio’s dirty laundry, judicial election candidates, fentanyl trafficking decline and loss of public forests.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 16, 2025
Claudia Sheinbaum’s inclusion in Time’s 100 most influential people is a recognition of the Mexican people, judicial election news, narcocorridos, medicinal pricing, 1944 Water Treaty with the US, Mexican tomato sanctions, Mexico will not have diplomatic relations with Ecuador so long as Noboa remains President.
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SOBERANÍA 54: COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW
These dangerous times call for regional unity, but can Latin America unite against Trump threats?
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 15, 2025
Tomato tiff, US-Mexico water treaty, home visits by public doctors reaches 7.32 million, measles vaccinations, IMSS investments, workday reduction for social security workers, ex-President Fox’s misogyny, Customs and Revenue changes, new Immigrant Institute head, 4t continuation.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 14, 2025
Mario Vargas Llosa passes, PROFECO price controls update, forest fires, 13.1 million Mexicans to benefit from public housing program, housing restructuring benefits citizens with mortgage reductions & frozen loans, US auto tarrifs, special Congressional dialogue on missing persons, moves to strengthen food sovereignty.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 11
National handicrafts, judicial elections, US water treaty issue, Judicial branch trusts, missing persons meetings, Morena candidates rules, the 4t and national pride.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 10
9th summit of CELAC, Procurement and Public Works Law, medicine purchases and anti-corruption fight, trade relation with the USA, judicial elections.
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SOBERANÍA 53: WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE
Trump’s tariff plan turned out worse than everyone expected but somehow Mexico has come out unscathed. While close friends and allies of Trump were hit with devastating tariffs, Mexico was spared thanks to President Claudia Sheinbaum’s negotiating and now the country is poised to take advantage of its comparative advantage in the refashioned world of global commerce.
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CLICKS APRIL 7
Party and movement tension in Morena, assessing AMLO, nearshoring wave 2, Canada-Mexico relations, two journalists dead at Axe Ceremonia music festival, auto supply chains and two years on, still looking for accountability for the migrant center fire.
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SOBERANÍA 52: WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE…
Mexico reckons with Trump admin officials, Sheinbaum takes one for the team by meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the final stop of her cringe tour” through Latin America, the media attempt to play up China’s supposed pivot away from Mexico, and Mexico’s new Interoceanic Corridor linking the Atlantic and Pacific is now open.
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CLICKS MARCH 31
Anti-Sheinbaum slander, the necessity of taxing Mexico’s rich, judicial elections, Morelos corruption, Venezuela thanks Mexico for support, teacher’s pension fight, US autoworkers vs Canadian and Mexican workers, the Mexican ultraright, Canadian autoworker union Unifor has no interest in unity with Mexican workers, and assassination of PT militant.
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SOBERANÍA 51: THE WATER WARS
What’s behind the Trump administration’s denial of Mexico’s special request for water for Tijuana and what’s the future of the 1944 treaty governing water sharing along the border? Also migrant mistreatment at Florida’s Krome Detention Center in Miami & Sheinbaum accepts the credentials of the Palestinian ambassador.
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SOBERANÍA 50: INTERNATIONAL FAR RIGHT FINDS ALLIES IN MEXICO
Right-wing politicians in Mexico are working with Mexican oligarch Ricardo Salinas Pliego to build links with the far right, hosting meetings with representatives from Vox, the Atlas Network, and the Fundación Internacional para la Libertad.
ANALYSIS
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FELIPE CALDERÓN: A COLLABORATOR AGAINST MEXICO
Former Mexican President Calderón maneuvered to have the Council of Europe disqualify Claudia Sheinbaum’s government. He doesn’t seem very patriotic.
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MEXICO’S ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY WITH THE USSR
Remembering Mexico’s acts of solidarity with the USSR is a legitimate way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over fascism, but reflecting deeply on that historical experience is a better way to honor it.
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COCA COLA CAPITALISM
The over one-hundred history of Coca Cola in Mexico is intertwined with predatory capitalism, petty gangsterism, neoliberal crisis, monopolies and water shortages. An interview with Bruce Hobson.
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COME BACK TO YOUR HOMELAND!
Besides persecuting anti-genocide activists from abroad, the Trump administration is attacking all non-citizens, regardless of their legal status. For migrants of Mexican origins, why stay?
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ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, ON EARTH
Father Solalinde is well known in Mexico and internationally for giving away all his worldly goods and living in the shelter he built for migrants passing through Oaxaca on their dangerous journey. An interview.
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A Socialist Workers Center Builds Worker Power
Casa Obrero Socialista Jose Antonio Vital in Mexico City is a critical place for political education, where working class history is preserved and union struggles take shape. An interview with Hortensia Escobar Hernández.
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WHAT DOES TRUMP WANT?
American society’s destiny is in the hands of irrationality.
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CHAPULINES & GOVERNING FROM THE LEFT
It’s not bad that Morena is growing. What’s bad is that some people are joining without assuming the responsibilities that come with a left-wing project.
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SOCIALISM: DIGNITY WITHOUT PAPERS
For immigrants in the US living without documentation, it’s also much like living underground, imprisoned in a cage of fear. Luisa Martinez of the DSA’ National Political Committee tells us what that was like for a young woman desperately wanting to make something better of her life.
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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: THE UNION ANSWER TO TARIFFS & DEPORTATIONS
A working class that is divided, both within the U.S. and across North America, is easier to exploit. Corporations have greatly profited from our divisions over the three decades since NAFTA was enacted.
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.