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The humanitarian aid approach proposed by the Mexican government “is certainly necessary, but without the possibility of oil trade, it is merely a small palliative.”
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Early morning starts, picking a kind of modern “red gold” that grows in the south of Baja California.
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With four workers shot and an intransigent employer, the union needs widespread solidarity.
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Communities spoke out against seed ownership systems and policies that promote land privatization and commodification, warning that these measures affect autonomy and community organization.
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What began as a workers’ protest escalated into an armed attack against those protecting the movement, with four workers shot.
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“The separation between landowners, agricultural companies, and transnational corporations, combined with the multiple levels of labor intermediation, creates an extremely complicated context for workers.”
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In Mexico, approximately 2.3 million people are engaged in domestic work, but incorporation into social security is stagnant and even has registered a slight decline since 2023.
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The union secured a 5.8 percent wage increase for more than a thousand workers at the San Luis Potosí plant.
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“We are witnessing how language reflects a logic in which the primary value of people lies in their ability to generate profit,” Senator Alejandro González Yáñez said.
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Despite the more than 10 billion pesos in annual production generated by large, technologically advanced agricultural fields, farmworkers live on unpaved streets, without streetlights or public transportation; their homes lack electricity, water, and drainage.
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The President’s goal for her six-year term is to distribute 150,000 property titles to women ejido members and communal landowners.
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Families expressed their concern about an update to Mexico’s National Registry which “prioritizes administrative management over the reality of families on the ground.”
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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Mexico’s new film law, Langston Hughes, disappearances, Nuestra América convoy, evictions, deportees, and the trade spat with China.
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14 Mexican citizens have lost their lives in ICE custody or in immigration operations during President Donald Trump’s second term.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public health investments, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, energy sovereignty, AIFA airport, forced disappearances, and Sonora River remediation.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on investments in Fine Arts & Anthropology & History institutions, Cuba, lawsuit by Mexicans who died in ICE custody, and fuel price controls.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on disappearances, Cuba, and the US military crossing into Nogales, Sonora.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Goodbye Grift: Mexico Neuters US-Funded NGOs – Soberanía 101
Mexico tax authority’s decision to revoke the tax-deductible status some NGOs operating in the country, including prominent organizations linked to the opposition and US funding.
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Analysis
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The Hidden Connections Between the Ukrainian Military & Drug Cartels
It is difficult to believe that European intelligence services, which rigorously monitor arms trafficking, would ignore the flow of weapons & drones into the Americas.
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Anti-4T Civil Associations Allegedly Simulated Activities to Evade Taxes
Mexico’s Tax Administration Service revoked the authorization of 270 civil associations to receive tax-deductible donations, including 3 organizations with ties to the Atlas Network, NED and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Tariffs Without Industry: The Trap of Mexican Trade Policy Towards China
Without a policy aimed at increasing the productive investment rate to accompany the country’s reindustrialization process, trade barriers will be inefficient due to the rigidity of the productive structure.
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A Change of Course Urgently Needed for Plan México
The announcements of new investments that never materialize must end now, and with them, the change or evolution of Plan México.
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Mexico’s Mobile Consulates in the US
Such consulates perform an extremely important task, especially when the policies of the US administration under Donald Trump are becoming increasingly aggressive.
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A Law to Protect the Dignity & Life of Women
Mexico’s General Law to Prevent, Investigate, Sanction and Repair the Damage for the Crime of Femicide seeks to strengthen the capacity of the State to protect, act promptly, investigate, as well as guarantee truth, justice and reparation for victims.
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Mental Health at Risk
The damage to the mental health and lives of millions of people may already be, to some degree, irreversible; the question is whether we will have the capacity to regulate digital platforms.
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PEMEX & Energy Security in the Face of the International Crisis
In Mexico, energy is a public good provided by the State to ensure the continuity, reliability, accessibility, affordability, and sustainability of fuel and electricity supply as pillars of development.
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