News
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A representative from Observatoria Todas MX Sonora emphasized that Sonora had been under a Gender Violence Alert for almost four years, and far from decreasing, femicides actually increased.
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Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including tarrifs, gentrification protests, rescuing Lake Texcoco, corporate taxation, racism in Mexican society, and dismal results from Mexico’s top prosecutor.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed protestors in Ensenada who oppose the expansion of the El Sauzal port.
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Jaime Alanis García, who supported his wife and daughter, fell nine meters during the raid by the US’ Immigration & Customs Enforcement gang.
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A local television station reported that around 100 farmworkers were arrested in the raid prior to the protests, and that officers fired tear gas at the crowd during a subsequent clash with federal agents.
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The chocolate is sourced from small, peasant producers who cultivate the cocoa using agroforestry methods in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, and will be first made available at public Tiendas Bienestar.
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The announcement follows long-standing criticism of Morena’s practice of recruiting dubious candidates from disgraced political parties above its own membership, criticism which grew louder from within Morena and the Fourth Transformation movement in the previous months
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Pegasus, the israeli-spawned spyware that monitors Mexico, has made news again amid corruption allegations against former President Peña Nieto.
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Front members accused Morena of using the proposal to win votes in its 2024 campaigns and now wanting to use it again until 2030.
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Blueground is the largest provider of 30-day minimum stays in Mexico City; like Airbnb, it is funded by WestCap, an investment fund headed by Airbnb’s former CFO.
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Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including the ubiquitious and dismal saga of US-Mexico relations, Mexico City anti-gentrification protests, public-private partnerships in renewables, Heineken to suck Yucatán dry, sanctions on Mexican banks, and Peña Nieto and Israel deal.
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35 workers from the Mexican government’s new preventative healthcare initiative struck after not receiving any wages for the entire month of June.
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A search of the gringo’s home revealed four pistols, two AR-15s; more than 100 rounds of ammunition, six magazines, and a knife.
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A large mobilization against social cleansing began in the heavily gentrified area of Roma Norte.
Solidarity
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Soberanía 66: Trump Budget Declares War on Migrants
$178 billion allocated to immigration enforcement in a disastrous budget that strips away social protections to shower benefits on the wealthy while ratcheting up the punitive state.
Analysis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,