News
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Gilberto Loya Chávez, the state’s Secretary of Public Security, embroiled in Mexico’s big CIA scandal, has political aspirations.
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More than 72 percent of unpaid domestic and care tasks are performed by women; a core part of the daily functioning of the economy that remains outside of remuneration schemes.
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The reform indicates that the human right to care is indispensable for exercising other rights.
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The health of four out of every ten workers in Mexico is seriously threatened by excessive workloads and working hours.
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For over 15 years, a space for film buffs and the curious has been one of the last DVD stores in Mexico City.
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At the ceremony commemorating the Battle of Puebla, President Claudia Sheinbaum emphasized that those who resisted the invasion of 1862 left a lesson for the people of Mexico.
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Mexican photographer Abril Rojas was traveling on one of the boats seized last Wednesday by Netanyahu’s regime in international waters near Greece.
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The head of Mexico’s National Mining Union said that several mines are replicating the model of Canadian Orla Mining, hiring armed groups to interfere in union votes.
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Cuba’s former Deputy Minister of Culture will give a seminar from May 5th to 12th at UNAM in Mexico City.
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1,850 workers have not received their salaries for seven months, but they reject the government’s proposal for arbitration and demand the employer respect their collective bargaining agreement.
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One year after his arrival in Mexico, America’s deathsquad diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico Ronald D Johnson is leaving an unwelcome mark on domestic politics.
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Tabasco Governor: US Accusations Against Morena Members are an “unsubstantiated act of interference”
Javier May Rodríguez said the US is going through a deep crisis and wants Mexico’s land and natural resources.
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Argentine President Javier Milei reportedly contributed $350,000, according to audio recordings of former Honduran and drug trafficker President Juan Orlando Hernández.
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National unions such as CNTE, SME and unions representing PEMEX and TelMex workers participated in multiple marches which converged on the Zócalo.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the Trump’s threats and taunts, Chihuahua governor, PEMEX, and visit by the little Spaniard Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on US requests for detention of Sinaloa political figures, public security, and social programs.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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The Empire Strikes Back – Soberanía 105
The U.S. wants Sinaloa’s governor extradited — but is it justice or retaliation? Plus: the new U.S. drug strategy, Morena’s new president, and why a NYT piece on Cuba is pure propaganda.
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Analysis
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US Doesn’t Give a Shit About Drug Traffic
US drug policy in Latin America is just a means to an end: dominance and control, an extension of their imperialist foreign policy, writes José Luis Granados Ceja.
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Restore Campesino Rights, Reject the USMCA
José Jacobo Femat of the Central of Peasant & Popular Organizations, rejects the USMCA entirely, saying free trade agreements have effectively turned Mexico into a colony of US multinationals.
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Mexico’s Labour Spring… with Low Temperatures & Blizzards
Substantive advances such as wage increases exist alongside serious deficiencies in working conditions & institutions: a lack of labour inspectors, undemocratic unions, growing informality and the privatized pension system.
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The Eternal Class Struggle
Despite armed attacks, police collusion & an unsympathetic state (to say the least), the strike at Tornel continues as over a thousand workers square off against an exploitative, aggressive transnational.
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The Work of Migrants
The US has not only historically benefited from the labor of millions of migrants; it has built its economic power on them. And Mexico, at the same time, has paid a very high price: loss of productive capacity, rural decline, community uprooting, and dependence on a model that expels people only to turn them into cheap labor.
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Cuba Does Not Stand Alone
´No More Foreign Wars’ Means Cuba Too.
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Morena Can Win Elections But Lose Leadership
There hasn’t been a break with Obradorism, but there’s no orderly direction either. The risk is not to lose votes right away, but to weaken the coalition that made Mexico’s Fourth Transformation possible.
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Cinco de Mayo: The Chicano Holiday
US alcohol corporations have largely coopted this holiday, marketing it as an occasion to party, not to celebrate an anti-imperialist victory, much less motivate the Chicano people’s ongoing struggle against racism and national oppression.
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