Briefs
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CHINA ANNOUNCES FORUM WITH CELAC MEMBERS: LULA, PETRO, BORIC CONFIRMED
The forum will adopt a three year plan, covering measures for collaboration in scientific and technological innovation, economic and trade investment, finance, infrastructure, agri-food, energy development, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
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CLICKS MAY 10
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including Communist Party of Cuba and Morena agreement, Taibo II talks TV nationalization, lawsuit against Google, Rubalcava and the Metro, Monreal family questions, USW in Mexico, Telecommunications law, no US troops, and Morena’s new ethical guidelines.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 9
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on corridos for peace, increase in support for film, repatriation of Mexican migrants, the new Pope, banks urged to reduce interest rates, housing corruption, and recognizing Mexico’s mothers.
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CRIME DOWN IN MEXICO
The Mexican government has released statistics showing an across-the-board reduction in crime, particularly high-impact crime, and attributed the results to the successful application of the Security Strategy, launched in October 2024.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 8
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on reduction in violence and crime, free medical consultations, security strategy results, Federal Police won’t return, Teuchitlán case, judicial elections, and freedom of expression.
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PLAN MEXICO: PRODUCTIVE SOVEREIGNTY OR MODERNIZING DEPENDENCY?
What is promised in its rhetoric does not always coincide with the structural logic underlying Plan Mexico, which seeks to further integrate Mexico into a subordinate cog in the U.S. productive apparatus.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 7
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on infrastructure, security, corridos, USMCA, controversial CDMX Metro appointment, Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s suggestion to nationalize TV Azteca, Zedillo’s audit proposal, and debunking circulating lies.
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SOBERANÍA 57: WORKING 9 TO 5
The 40-hour workweek will be a reality in Mexico…eventually. Plus tarrifs, troops, Sheinbaum’s letter and a New Yorker smearjob.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 6
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on construction begins on 106k units of social housing, fraud lawsuits against housing developers, national sovereignty, Telecommunications Law, & premature campaigning restrictions.
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MORENA SETS RULES FOR INTERNAL COMPETITION; BANS NEPOTISM IN 2027
The document reiterates recommendations made by President Claudia Sheinbaum in a letter she wrote following the scandal involving Senator Andrea Chávez and internal disputes that have arisen in other states, such as Coahuila.
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GUIDELINES FOR ETHICAL CONDUCT FOR REPRESENTATIVES, PUBLIC SERVANTS, PROTAGONISTS OF TRUE CHANGE, AND MORENA MILITANTS
On Sunday, May 4th, Morena adopted a ban on electoral nepotism and expanded the ethical guidelines its leaders, elected officials, militants and candidates must follow. These are the guidelines.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 5
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on price controls, steel industry regulation, increasing domestic energy production, national economic outlook, SNTE strike, US-Mexico relationship, improving housing and water access, missing persons issue, and ethics within Morena.
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GOVERNMENT TO RECOVER 600,000 ABANDONED HOMES
Built mainly during the Fox and Calderón administrations, they were built for private profit with public money, and didn’t meet the needs of workers: with no services, nowhere near urban centers.
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PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM’S LETTER TO MORENA LEADERSHIP & MILITANTS
“Some modest suggestions to the Morena leadership, for the good of our country, our people, and our Movement.”
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CLICKS MAY 3
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including GMO corn ban, 40 hour workweek, Trump tarrifs and labor, Ernesto Zedillo returns, Las Solderas, Trump proposes US military action, CIA operative rapist, Mexicans relieved AMLO moved Spanish private energy corps from market.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 2
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on US-Mexico trade relations, Unilever investment, economic strength, culture and books, human rights, resisting privatization.
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MAY DAY: SHEINBAUM ANNOUNCES TRANSITION TO 40 HOUR WORKWEEK
Unfortunately, the transition time is five years.
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MAY DAY: AUTOWORKERS DIVIDED BY TARRIFS?
This May Day, when workers around the world rise to demand rights, respect and their just share of the wealth, autoworker solidarity is on the line.
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MAY DAY: PARTIDO POPULAR SOCIALISTA DE MÉXICO
International Workers Day statement from the Popular Socialist Party of Mexico.
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CAN CANADA & MEXICO TEAM UP AGAINST TRUMP?
José Luis Granados Ceja appeared on Canadian television program TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss the potentials for Mexico-Canada cooperation after Canada’s recent election.
ANALYSIS
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THE MEDIA’S ROLE IN THE POSSIBLE REVOLUTION
There is an urgent need for the Latin American left to reflect on which programs we can join forces on, how we articulate different experiences, and how to communicate with social sectors that are not yet politicized to build a common emancipatory horizon.
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CINCO DE MAYO AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE
For Black America, Cinco de Mayo needs to be seen as a day to celebrate a war of resistance against a colonial power that was, de facto, allied with the Confederacy and a day to celebrate an abolitionist state which welcomed many of our ancestors and “blood.”
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PLAN MEXICO: PRODUCTIVE SOVEREIGNTY OR MODERNIZING DEPENDENCY?
What is promised in its rhetoric does not always coincide with the structural logic underlying Plan Mexico, which seeks to further integrate Mexico into a subordinate cog in the U.S. productive apparatus.
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PECANS & PROTEST
Filmmaker Anne Lewis speaks about her film “A Strike and an Uprising! (in Texas)” on a historic Texas strike and its leader Emma Tenayuca.
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4T REWARDS THE “OPAQUE KING”
The new head of Mexico City’s Metro (one of the most important transportation systems in the world and the recipient of a historic increase in funding this year of 23 billion MXN) has a dark history in previous right wing governments, with many unanswered questions about his administration of finances and connections to organized criminal groups.
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WHO’S IN CHARGE OF MORENA?
Viri Ríos says Claudia Sheinbaum’s message is clear: Morena’s leaders have failed or have been unwilling to put the party back on track, and the President has grown tired of simply watching.
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FROM WORDS TO DEEDS?
Claudia Sheinbaum’s letter was full of compelling words and moral guidance, but will that be enough to tame excess, discipline internal factions and purge corporate interests?
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MIGRANTS: THE TWO CRISES
Parallel to the problem of adequate housing for migrants is a much more troubling issue: the crisis of lack of empathy, lack of solidarity, and covert xenophobia among certain sectors of Mexico City.
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MAY DAY: AUTOWORKERS DIVIDED BY TARRIFS?
This May Day, when workers around the world rise to demand rights, respect and their just share of the wealth, autoworker solidarity is on the line.
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BANNING JUNK FOOD IN SCHOOLS
Something big has happened for children in Mexico this year. On March 29th, guidelines went into effect that prohibit the sale of junk food in schools throughout the country.
PHOTOS
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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