News


Solidarity

  • Jaime is a militant leader of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union, who had been organizing workers at an open-pit mine owned by Orla Mining of Vancouver, BC, Canada. His life and the lives of his family are being threatened.


Mañanera del Pueblo

  • President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Oaxaca’s Guelaguetza festival, Mexico Canta singing competition, US immigration raids, migrant repatriation, White House bilateral, poverty reduction and PEMEX.

  • President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on agriculture and fishing programs, public grocery stores, social food production, Chocolate de Bienestar, screwworm, US-Mexico relations, Texas flood support, and 182,000 public homes to be built in 2025.

  • President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on a new rail and public transportation agency, US Mexico relations, Fitch Ratings, Ricardo Salinas’ rampage, Vicente Fox, and gentrification.

Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast

Analysis

  • Lake Texcoco: Life’s Triumph

    Lake Texcoco: Life’s Triumph

    The cancelation of the airport & survival of Lake Texcoco is to be welcomed, but environmental triumphs must be reinforced through education, awareness of rights, and mobilization against those who put private profit above the common good.


  • The Left’s Missing Strategic Horizon

    The Left’s Missing Strategic Horizon

    Figures like Zohran Mamdani and Jeanette Jara are merely fireworks intended to keep afloat a rickety left wing which has lost all strategic depth, incapable of advancing past fleeting tactical maneuvers that change nothing and are quickly forgotten.


  • Health Sovereignty: From Profit-Driven Disorganization to Public Reconstruction

    Health Sovereignty: From Profit-Driven Disorganization to Public Reconstruction

    Healthcare can no longer be treated as a business. It’s time to rebuild what was dismantled.


  • The Fight for Water & Land

    The Fight for Water & Land

    Even after one revolution, and the two significant reforms of Cárdenas and of López Obrador, the struggle for water and land continues to divide the interests of peasant communities and the large monopolies who profit from them.


  • This House is not a Hotel

    This House is not a Hotel

    Gentrification proceeds through every day developments, causing prices ito skyrocket, and what was once a territory of urban resistance becomes a tourist showcase and, ultimately, a territory of expulsion.


  • Solidarity, Greed & the State

    Solidarity, Greed & the State

    Social predators like Diego Fernández, Salinas Pliego, and Germán Larrea, who arose in the neoliberal period but continue to prosper under the Fourth Transformation, point towards a pressing need: to decommodify large sectors of Mexican society.


  • BRICS: A Positive Contrast

    BRICS: A Positive Contrast

    Mexico’s current level of dependence on US imperialism is the product of decisions made more than three decades ago by the architects of neoliberalism. The BRICS Summit signals that Mexico needs to look south to build a sustainable economy and guarantee its long-term sovereignty.


  • Of Principled Pragmatism & Other Demons

    Of Principled Pragmatism & Other Demons

    Given the unrestricted defense of pragmatism in Morena as a way to keep Mexico safe from the threat of the far right, one must question whether what is gradually strengthening the right is not a policy of unrestricted openness to figures from the “Old Regime” who insistently operate and construct their own stockpiles of power.



PHOTOS

  • THUNDER OVER MEXICO

    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.


  • MAY DAY: MEXICO CITY MARCH

    MAY DAY: MEXICO CITY MARCH

    International Workers Day was commemorated in Mexico as unions marched from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo.


  • Claudia Sheinbaum’s 100 Points

    Claudia Sheinbaum’s 100 Points

    100 points outlined in Sheinbaum’s first speech as the newest President of the Mexican Republic, with photos.


  • Mexico Votes!

    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.


  • Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Close

    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.


  • CDMX Rally Against Ecuador’s Attack on Mexican Embassy

    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.


  • Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Launch

    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.


  • Mexico City Global Day for Palestine

    Mexico City Global Day for Palestine

    The demand was made for Mexico to end diplomatic relations with Israel.


  • Massive march brings over 20,000 into Mexico City streets for Palestine

    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.


  • CDMX with Palestine

    CDMX with Palestine

    On Saturday, October 28th, Chilangos marched in solidarity with Palestine from the Angel of Indepence to the Zócalo,