News
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Ruffo Appel is among 25 facing warrants; the ring moved Texas fuel by rail, declaring 10% of each tank car and costing the treasury over 4 billion pesos.
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Chihuahua’s right-wing PAN government signed the Israel water pact without registering it with Mexico’s federal foreign ministry; groups in 14 states march August 1 to cancel it.
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Baja California governor from 1989 to 1995 and Mexico’s first opposition governor, he was arrested in Ensenada for organized crime and fuel smuggling.
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Mexican Government Reports Progress in Atoyac Cleanup; Textile Discharges, Main Challenge: Sheinbaum
A year into a 20-billion-peso cleanup, authorities inspected 280 firms, fined 56 million pesos, and closed eight sites; dyeing runoff is hardest to curb.
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Admissions rose 19.2% over 2024; of 231,436 people held, 42.2% had no sentence, and Baja California led the country with 21,062 intakes.
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The bill sets one nationwide definition, adds 19 aggravating factors, makes the crime imprescriptible, and strips convicted killers of inheritance rights.
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At the Fentanyl Free America summit, DEA chief Terry Cole called Mexico’s cartels and government “one and the same”; Sheinbaum said the claim has no basis.
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The 40-billion-peso co-investment replaces 40-year-old trains and rebuilds worn tracks; no stations will close this year and fare won’t rise, Brugada said.
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DEA chief Terry Cole made the claim without evidence at the first Fentanyl-Free U.S. Summit, vowing to make the cartels the agency’s “number one priority.”
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Sheinbaum says 41 daily murders have been prevented since September 2024; high-impact crime fell 53%, with eight states behind half of all killings.
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Mexico’s Anti-Corruption Secretariat penalized the football federation for collecting fans’ facial-recognition data for stadium FAN IDs without proper consent.
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The largest federal school investment ever will build 31 new high schools and create 156,240 student spots across basic, upper-secondary, and higher education.
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The fifth Utopía complex brings free health, culture, and care services to Iztapalapa, part of Brugada’s push to put Mexico City’s neglected peripheries first.
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Mexico is moving from diplomatic protest to legal action against GEO Group and CoreCivic, the private ICE contractors profiting as detained migrants die.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on river cleanup, gasoline prices, migrant protection, El Mayo Zambada, the USMCA review, and public education.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on femicide, housing, well-being, the World Cup, sovereignty, international cooperation, and the Lie Detector.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on homicide reduction, organized crime, migrant protection, the Marina del Pilar audios, and El Mayo’s pilot.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Claudia Sheinbaum Takes on the ICE Killing Machine – Soberanía 115
Mexico escalates its fight against ICE abuses with criminal complaints and UN action, Baja California’s governor is caught in a leaked visa audio, and the AIFA airport train becomes a commuter hit.
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Analysis
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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.
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When a Certain Argentine Right Hates Mexicans
“There is no spontaneous Argentine-Mexican conflict; there is a transnational circulation of narratives produced by influence networks, media, and algorithms that turn any disagreement between leaders into antagonism between peoples.”
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US Agencies, Especially the CIA, Pressure Mexico’s Sovereignty
Four US agents caught in Chihuahua exposed illegal intelligence on Mexican soil, reopening the debate over the CIA’s reach and Mexico’s sovereignty.
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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.
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. Author Jay Watts Jay Watts is a photojournalist specializing in social movements and the left who has lived in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto and is now based in Mexico City. His work has appeared in the Toronto Star, Maclean’s, De Raíz, TV Azteca, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Dimension, People’s Voice and other publications.
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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