Briefs
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CLICKS SEPTEMBER 14
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including judicial reform, China-Mexican relations and (as usual) gringo interference.
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CLICKS SEPTEMBER 7
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO’s final informe, US corps drying up Mexico, judicial reform, nearshoring jitters, child labor declining, and violence in Chiapas.
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EXAMINING MEXICAN POLITICS PT 1 w/ GRANADOS CEJA & HACKBARTH
Appearance on Class, the official podcast of the National Political Education Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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LEFT RECKONING w/ HACKBARTH & GRANADOS CEJA
Hackbarth & Granados Ceja discuss AMLO’s final days in office and the fight to continue to build from the victories of MORENA.
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SOBERANÍA 25 – OPPOSITION IN DISARRAY
Morena supermajority, the recent independent media gathering, AMLO’s final ‘Informe’, where in the world is Ovidio Guzmán, and a Canadian addition to Losers & Haters.
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De Chile, Mole y Pozole: Stories from Oaxaca
Writer, playwright, and journalist Kurt Hackbarth is a naturalized Mexican citizen living in Oaxaca. Committed to getting new writers published, he and his partner, Nidia Rojas, created their own publishing house.
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Internationalist Training Course
A call to the leftist, feminist, popular and anti-imperialist militants of the continent to join the Internationalist Training Course: A Minimum Floor.
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CLICKS AUGUST 31
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US & Canada diplomatic dustup, the judicial reform, mythbusting about cartels, new Texcoco ecological park, Kamala Harris wants to build the wall.
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Kurt Hackbarth on Breakthrough News
Mexico Solidarity Media’s Kurt Hackbarth on Breakthrough News to discuss the latest diplomatic dustup between Mexico and the United States of America (and its ‘client state’ Canada).
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SOBERANÍA 24 – AMLO to US Ambassador: Butt Out
AMLO tells oilman-turned-ambassador Ken Salazar to keep his nose out of Mexico’s business.
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CLICKS AUGUST 24
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US Ambassador Ken Salazar’s unwelcome intrusion into Mexican domestic affairs, the ongoing GMO corn fight, disappointment with the commission on 70s counterinsurgency crimes, Mexico City passses rent control, Mexico & China trade, US Democrats take aim at migrants.
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SOBERANÍA 23 – How the US Uses NGOs to Promote Regime Change
A new report from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggests the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy says Mexico is “major target country for infiltration” and US funding bothered President Andres Manuel López Obrador so much that he sent a diplomatic letter to Joe Biden.
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CLICKS AUGUST 19
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Mexico respecfts Venezuelan sovereignty, the sad decline of Proceso magazine, USAID funding and US meddling in Mexican politics, and labor news.
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SOBERANÍA 22 – Paying Mexico’s Historic Debt
Mexico’s Morena-led government continues to push ahead to fulfill their mandate by approving a monumental and long overdue constitutional reform granting greater autonomy for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples,
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SOBERANÍA 21 – CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP
Morena’s moves to push forward progressive constitutional reforms on housing, the minimum wages, social programs and more.
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CLICKS AUGUST 5
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO sees no evidence of fraud in Venezuela, the diminishing fortunes of Mexico’s right wing opposition, Trump wants to strike “cartels”, minimum wage raises above inflation moves forward, US manufacturers continue rushing to Mexico, PEMEX workers win 5% wage hike, social housing for youth and elderly in CDMX.
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SOBERANÍA 20 – The Capture of El Mayo Zambada: Who Wins?
What’s behind the capture of El mayo Zambada, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug traffickers?
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SOBERANÍA 19 – ELECTORAL LAWFARE
The Mexican right wing attempt to steal Morena’s legislative supermajority through electoral lawfare, PAN confesses what we always knew wall along, and Tim Golden’s latest DEA sourced hit piece in ProPublica.
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CLICKS JULY 22
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US unions decry Caterpillar move to Mexico, multipolar opportunities, agroecology, Trump & Mexico, ongoing revival of passenger rail, Mexican humanism, China & Mexican green energy cooperation, the curse of water privatization, Canadian mining crimes, corn dispute.
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SOBERANÍA 18 – Will MAGA Reloaded Set its Sights on Mexico?
What are the potential consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency for Mexico? Also, Morena’s overhaul of the judiciary, new tariffs on Chinese metals and greenwashing propaganda from The Guardian.
ANALYSIS
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Mexico’s transformation advances with President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum
“It is the Time of Women” proclaims Claudia: her own election is symbolic of a much broader change.
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¡Reforma Ya!
Mexico’s political institutions reflect majority opinion; Morena is in power because the country’s political system allows third parties to grow (it’s only ten years old) and because most people support its policies, including democratizing the judiciary.
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Sovereignty Is Never Up for Negotiation
The sort of interference proposed by Brazil and Colombia is an affront to sovereignty, even when it comes from friendly governments.
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Nature and/or Economic Development?
In this interview, agroecologist Dr. Cecilia Elizondo explains a new “both/and” model of development being tried in Mexico of agro-ecology, wholistic development and food sovereignty.
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Ambassadors Salazar & Clark Win the Negroponte Prize
Ken Salazar, US ambassador, and Graeme Clark, Canadian ambassador, need an intensive course in the basics of international diplomacy.
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Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left
Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.
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Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike
An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.
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The Terrible Ignorance of Norma Piña
Much to the consternation of relics of the neoliberal order like Supreme Court President Norma Piña, more than 80% of Mexicans back a major change to the judiciary, blackened with a legacy of widespread accusations of corruption, questionable rulings and failing to deliver justice to victims.
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‘The Coup’ at Ford: Political Intrigue Across Borders
“US labor was on the wrong side of history. And that’s the truth.” An interview with Rob McKenzie on US complicity in the 1990 murder of Mexican workers.
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Innuendoes, Distortions, Omissions and Blatant Lies by NACLA
A substantial part of the “character assassination” includes a torrent of innuendoes, guilt by association, and plenty of other tricky ambiguities aimed at allegedly “demonstrating” the long-term connection, if not association, between AMLO and narco-traffickers since at least 2006.
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