News
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The order follows the alleged femicide of a 13-year-old at a militarized-school camp; the first academy targeted is Puebla’s Ignacio Zaragoza.
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Korean Firm Kia to Invest $649 Million in Mexico to Begin Electric Vehicle Production in the Country
Kia will invest $649 million to produce its first electric vehicle in Mexico at its Pesquería, Nuevo León plant. Production starts August 4, creating 2,000 jobs through 2030, report Muñoz and Jiménez.
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The video, leaked by outlet Pie de Nota, shows former governor Jaime Bonilla threatening Marina del Pilar, Baja California’s sitting Morena governor, amid a 2022 feud.
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Specialists warned that attention spans in front of a screen fell from two and a half minutes two decades ago to about 47 seconds today.
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Only the 2018 closure of a property of Vulcan’s CALICA subsidiary was ruled a violation, less than 1 percent of what the company had demanded from Mexico.
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The life-size figures, known as Encuentro, sat on a bench in Tabacalera until the Cuauhtémoc mayor removed them last July, a removal officials later deemed illegal.
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The Franco-Mexican proposal, backed by 120 countries since 2015, would bar the UN’s five permanent members from vetoing action on genocide or war crimes.
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Sheinbaum rejected Milei’s claim of an anti-Argentine campaign, saying Mexico doesn’t meddle abroad and asks only for the same respect.
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Mexico’s trade surplus jumped to $9.857 billion from $1.433 billion a year earlier, as non-oil exports surged 25.6 percent on booming US demand for electronics.
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After a two-decade grassroots fight against the CFE dam on the Papagayo River, the government will supply Acapulco with radial wells and tanks instead.
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Backed by over 100 organizations, from Morena to communist parties, the march condemns Trump’s invasion threats and the six-decade blockade.
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Scholars at a Secihti panel traced how far-right movements, “neither new nor spontaneous,” are gaining ground by borrowing the left’s own vocabulary on jobs, freedom, and crisis.
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Killed in his own office, mayor Valentín Lavín was himself under investigation for organized crime ties and as the alleged mastermind of three murders, including activist Samir Flores.
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The PAN’s old guard closes ranks behind Ernesto Ruffo, a fellow governor charged with fuel smuggling and organized crime, recasting him as a persecuted ‘political prisoner.’
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Kia’s $649M EV investment, Plan México and trade, new Fovissste housing, the Ruffo Appel case, audience rights, and falling food insecurity.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on media regulation, phone registration, Ernesto Ruffo, sovereignty, employment, UNAM, and solidarity with Cuba.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on children’s screen time, the Ruffo case, Acapulco’s water, Milei, militarized schools, the livestock border, and Mexican athletes.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Live Long and Prosper – Soberanía 117
Mexico wins a rare legal victory over Vulcan Materials at the World Bank’s ICSID tribunal, students occupy Canal Once, and Trump’s latest tariffs leave Mexico the relative winner.
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Analysis
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Washington’s Tariffs Against the World
Behind the forced-labor pretext lies a midterm gamble; even as Mexico edges out China as top US supplier, Campa argues any relative win is a Pyrrhic victory.
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Vulcan: Mexico’s Victory
Vulcan plundered the Riviera Maya for decades, then demanded $1.9 billion from Mexico in a corporate tribunal and still lost. AMLO ended the mining operations and declared the site a protected natural area.
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The Social Sector of the Economy: The Missing Piece Facing the Market
“The social sector represents all those forms that do not compulsively pursue the objectives of the capitalist economy. They have as their antecedent all the community and cooperative forms that have not been able to be subsumed under the logic of profit”
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The Right’s Strategy to Destabilize Mexico; the American Society Case
Nancy Flores reports how Larry Rubin, the dual US-Mexican citizen heading the American Society of Mexico, united opposition and corporate media behind the “narco-government” line.
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The Communities That Held Venezuela Together
After the June 24 earthquakes flattened La Guaira, the communal councils Venezuela built years earlier became the relief network sanctions couldn’t stop.
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If USMCA Disappears in the Next Decade, It Would Be the End of Economic Liberalization
Ahead of the July 20 USMCA review, UAM economist Carolina Hernández Calvario argues Mexico’s development project would outlive free trade, urging “strategic anticipation.”
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Hugo Eric Flores and the Evangelical Far Right
Hugo Eric Flores launches PAZ, his third evangelical party; a career opportunist who has passed through the PRI, the PAN, and Morena, always to hand the evangelical vote a party.
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Somos MX and the Media: Does Mexico’s New Party Revolve Around Salinas Pliego?
Somos MX, a new opposition party to Morena, is built less on a social base than on Mexico’s media oligarchy, including allies of magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
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