News

  • Cuban Ambassador Expresses Gratitude for Mexican Solidarity

    Cuban Ambassador Expresses Gratitude for Mexican Solidarity

    The Mexico City collection center – located almost at the corner of Corregidora and Plaza de la Constitución – will remain open until February 22.

  • Clicks

    Clicks

    Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Kurt Hackbarth, Trump Is Using Mexico’s Oil to Put the Squeeze on Cuba Jacobin. The alternative, however, is to let Cuba starve: the process of Gaza-ification brought into this hemisphere. If this were to succeed, and Mexico were…

  • Unions Warn 40 Hour Workweek Reform Could be “Paper-Only”

    Unions Warn 40 Hour Workweek Reform Could be “Paper-Only”

    Multiple unions raised concerns over the maintenance of a six day workweek, overtime pay reduction and an increase in tax burdens for workers.

  • Workweek Reform Lowers Overtime Pay

    Workweek Reform Lowers Overtime Pay

    “As it stands, the reform gives employers tools to extend the workday more cheaply than before,” labour specialist Loyo concluded, opening the door to an effective 52 hour work week.

  • Hyundai Supplier Union Wins Recognition

    Hyundai Supplier Union Wins Recognition

    After a four and a half year fight, SITRABICS was recognized as a union of transport workers in the supply chains in Mexico & the US.

  • Mexican Senate Committees Approve Gradual 40 Hour Work Week

    Mexican Senate Committees Approve Gradual 40 Hour Work Week

    Workers Party Senator Gonzalo Yañez stated all arguments in favor of the reform are undermined by the issue of overtime pay & complained that initiatives presented by PT legislators had not been taken into account. Nevertheless, he said, they would vote in favour.

  • Mexico’s Largest Trade Union Federation Adds 2 to Leadership Race

    Mexico’s Largest Trade Union Federation Adds 2 to Leadership Race

    Three candidates vie for the leadership of what is generally regarded as a corporatist behemoth, while the possibility of a national unity ticket looms, dimming the potential sharp debate.

  • 8 Million App Users, TV Soap Opera Ad… & the PAN Still Can’t Find New Members

    8 Million App Users, TV Soap Opera Ad… & the PAN Still Can’t Find New Members

    In Mexico, where political parties are currently publicly financed, the right wing PAN has spent a staggering amount during its lackluster recruitment drive.

  • Mexico’s National Film Archives Workers Demand Dignity

    Mexico’s National Film Archives Workers Demand Dignity

    “Our struggle is legitimate; we are not asking for privileges or luxuries, only better working conditions and job security. We also seek dialogue. This situation has become unsustainable.”

  • Clicks

    Clicks

    Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Washington’s strategy to recolonize America, public rail, cross-border unionization, FOBAPROA’s legacy, and the dubious 40 hour workweek reform.

  • WTF: The Donroe Doctrine Vs Mexico

    WTF: The Donroe Doctrine Vs Mexico

    Saturday, February 7 morning broadcast of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean with José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth from Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast.

  • A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere

    A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere

    This major setback in nearly three decades offers an uncomfortable lesson: measles elimination is not lost overnight; it erodes slowly.

  • Sheinbaum: The Regime of Privileges Will Not Return

    Sheinbaum: The Regime of Privileges Will Not Return

    The Mexican President spoke at the 109th anniversary of the 1917 Mexican Constitution, which was one of the most advanced social constitutions at its time, & inspired the Soviet constitution.

  • Committee Rejects CDMX Mayor Brugada’s Cultural Project at Tlaxcoaque Memorial

    Committee Rejects CDMX Mayor Brugada’s Cultural Project at Tlaxcoaque Memorial

    The building was identified as one of the main centers of torture & clandestine detention during the period of state political violence, and is part of an ongoing investigation into forced disappearances.

Mañanera del Pueblo

  • People’s Mañanera February 11

    People’s Mañanera February 11

    President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on social housing, measles vaccination, USMCA and Trump, and flights to Cuba.

  • People’s Mañanera February 9

    People’s Mañanera February 9

    President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on scholarships, return of mining concessions, PRIAN exposed, Bad Bunny Super Bowl, and aid to Cuba.

  • People’s Mañanera February 6

    People’s Mañanera February 6

    President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Michoacán homicides reduction, humanitarian aid for Cuba by Monday, Sheinbaum vs New York Times, and 1944 Water Treaty with US.

Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast

  • The Mining Minefield – Soberanía 95

    The Mining Minefield – Soberanía 95

    The controversy surrounding the U.S.-Mexico critical minerals agreement, examining what it actually says, what it doesn’t, and why it has sparked widespread concern over national sovereignty and resource control.

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Analysis

  • A Mexican Conspiracy Against the US?

    A Mexican Conspiracy Against the US?

    An interview with Morena’s Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad, Alejandro Robles, on Peter Schweizer’s dangerous and deluded new conspiracy theory.

  • When Governing Becomes Managing

    When Governing Becomes Managing

    Silence can be tactically useful, but it doesn’t resolve underlying tensions. It only postpones them. And when those in power postpone strategic decisions for too long, they end up trapped in their own caution.

  • Predation & Neo-latifundismo

    Predation & Neo-latifundismo

    The government must be very cautious, as the neoliberal regime handed out mining concessions to its predatory cronies like candy, more than half of the national territory ended up in their hands in one way or another.

  • New Challenges for the China-Mexico Trade Relationship in 2026

    New Challenges for the China-Mexico Trade Relationship in 2026

    The lack of high-level dialogue between China and Mexico has eroded the possibility of effective coordination in multiple bilateral areas, particularly in foreign trade.

  • Attack on Venezuela: Mexico’s Response

    Attack on Venezuela: Mexico’s Response

    An interview with Daniela González López of Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de Los Pueblos.

  • Critical Minerals: Subordination

    Critical Minerals: Subordination

    The risk is clear: Mexico’s mining, environmental, & investment policies can be progressively shaped to comply with Washington’s parameters, while a model of coordinated dependency becomes the regional norm.

  • Fighting on the Mexican Side: Gringo Rebels from the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to the Wobblies

    Fighting on the Mexican Side: Gringo Rebels from the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to the Wobblies

    US imperial intrusion into Mexico has another side: US citizens in Mexico contesting imperialism and constructing revolutionary change.

  • Credit Crunch

    Credit Crunch

    As long as Mexican banking remains deregulated, it will continue to be detrimental to growth, generating high profits at the expense of debtors, both in the public and non-financial private sectors.

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