News
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Approved with 479 votes alongside an interim trade deal, the pacts now head to Mexico’s Senate; Sheinbaum and von der Leyen signed them in May.
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Real wages in Mexico rose 15.1% over five years, nearly triple the OECD average, while only the US and Canada saw their real minimum wage fall.
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Ambassador Héctor Vasconcelos told the UN the embargo is doubling Cuba’s infant mortality, and urged removing the island from Washington’s terror-sponsor list.
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Sheinbaum says the US embassy’s account of El Mayo Zambada’s 2024 capture clashes with a new report of FBI involvement, and demands the facts be clarified.
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“So far it seems they did tell lies to the Mexican government,” President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo affirmed. Who makes deals with organized crime? she stressed.
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Mexico stays the top US trading partner at 16.5% of the total, ahead of Canada and China, just days after Washington declined to auto-renew USMCA for 16 years.
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Inegi data shows the first investment upturn in 19 months, driven by residential construction and imported machinery, though analysts warn the pillars are narrow.
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The Secretary of Government lays out a seven-point timeline of the El Mayo case, pointing to an FBI-donated plane in a war museum as the contradiction that exposes the lie.
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Sheinbaum cited record car sales, booming auto-parts and electronics manufacturing, and well-being housing—plus a July 20 US visit to continue USMCA-review talks.
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Ahead of a 2027 launch integrating IMSS, ISSSTE and IMSS Bienestar, Sheinbaum also cited student obesity, dental and vision screenings under Vida Saludable.
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Mexico City logged over 20,000 seizure investigations since 2020; the bill would instantly notify owners when someone tries to alter their property’s legal status.
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Speaking at a Women’s Wellbeing event in Michoacán, Sheinbaum tied the US’s 250th independence anniversary to every nation’s right to be free and independent.
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UNAM’s Fabio Barbosa says the commission still hasn’t found viable low-water fracking tech; Carlos Slim calls the business ‘irrational.’
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Rosa Icela Rodríguez reported 77 fairs in 68 municipalities, 414 guns swapped for cash, and 842,287 Michoacán scholarships worth 5.7 billion pesos.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the ‘El Mayo’ case, organized crime, security in Sinaloa, Ecuador, Toyota, and the national soccer team.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the economy, the World Cup, flood prevention in the Valley of Mexico, Pemex and energy sovereignty, Genaro García Luna, and international solidarity with Venezuela.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the Michoacán Plan, healthcare in Guerrero, infrastructure in Michoacán, the 2006 election fraud, the USMCA, and El Universal’s apology.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Sports as Diplomacy – Soberanía 113
Mexico shines at the World Cup and welcomes Iran, the right recycles itself with Somos México and a rebooted PAN, and the New York Times peddles an anonymous-source smear against Morena.
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Analysis
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Colombia’s Left After the 2026 Election: Defeat, Renewal, and the Future of the Pink Tide
A razor-thin conservative victory has not ended Colombia’s progressive movement. Organizers, unions, students, and community groups are already preparing for the next four years.
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The United States: Between Interference and the ‘Fight’ Against Drugs
The State Department’s INL bureau spent $819.8M in Mexico under AMLO, funding SAT-flagged NGOs and Venezuelan coup-plotters behind Bukele’s territorial-control plan.
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The Specter of the Far Right in Latin America
Economist Óscar David Rojas Silva reads Milei, Noboa and de la Espriella as proxies of a declining US empire—and maps how the left can answer.
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Scientific Commission’s Report on Fracking Is Not Conclusive
UNAM’s Fabio Barbosa says the commission still hasn’t found viable low-water fracking tech; Carlos Slim calls the business ‘irrational.’
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FIFA: Corporate State with Market Immunity
FIFA captures sovereign territory through tax exemptions and free infrastructure use; Peña Nieto’s irrevocable concessions shield 2026 World Cup contracts.
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Utopía — or Dystopia? Socialism — or Barbarism?
Ashwin Ravikumar of DSA’s Mexico Solidarity Working Group on Iztapalapa’s 16 Utopías — community centers showing what ‘re-socializing the commons’ can look like.
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Defending Mexico’s Sovereignty, the Principal Task of the Left in the Face of Imperialism’s War
Defending sovereignty is now the principal task of Mexico’s left, argues Josafat Hernández, as Trump, rating agencies and the far right besiege the 4T.
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MAGA? Unmasking US greatness
A Chinese American activist reflects on racism, inequality, and the historical foundations of U.S. power, arguing that Mexico’s sovereignty and social transformation offer an alternative to the American imperial model.
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