News
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Ariadna Montiel told Morena’s senators that vetting candidates is a ‘historic responsibility,’ vowing to reject anyone with ‘pending accounts.’
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Federal physical spending jumped 62.6% in real terms in July, driven by a 130.6% surge at Pemex.
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Former Mexican president Peña Nieto was filmed wearing a kippah at a Jewish wedding in Italy, seated beside Avishai Neriah, the Israeli businessman an outlet accused of channeling $25M to him for Mexican government contracts, including Pegasus.
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The reform amends three constitutional articles and requires those with another nationality to renounce it before registering as candidates for president or governor.
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The 10-year contract runs up to 2.43 billion pesos, brings bike-share to Iztapalapa, Iztacalco and Tlalpan for the first time, and hands all the infrastructure to the city at term’s end.
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The president tied Calderón’s ‘war on drugs’ to a jump from 27 to more than 70 daily homicides, the Fast and Furious guns, and a state that took the Sinaloa Cartel’s side.
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The $5.8 million is a first slice of a $578.5 million U.S. judgment against funds the UIF traced through Barbados shell firms like Nunvav on inflated prison contracts.
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Employee compensation’s share of GDP has risen 4.1 points since 2018 while corporate profits fell 7.3 points, a real shift in how Mexico’s wealth is distributed.
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Mexico’s total exports rose 43.7 percent and imports 45 percent year over year in July 2026, both reaching record values, according to INEGI.
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Sheinbaum framed the record as proof the economy is holding firm despite forecasts of weaker growth, alongside a peso at 16.97 to the dollar.
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Juan Manzo says he was surveilled for widow Grecia Quiroz, who he claims would fund the suspects’ defense with public money.
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Fox, campaigning against Morena ahead of 2027, now claims he spared AMLO; Sheinbaum says he engineered both the 2005 removal attempt and the 2006 electoral fraud.
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American authorities recently handed over to Mexico 10 fugitives wanted in several states.
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The talks come as Washington presses Mexico to hand over 10 officials, and as Ebrard negotiates to head off new US tariffs.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public education, student mental health, phones in classrooms, and school renovations.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Cabeza de Vaca, candidate screening, García Luna, recovered funds, peacebuilding, and Mexican athletes.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on national sovereignty, Cabeza de Vaca, migrant protection, Somos México, La Derecha Diario, and audience rights.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Embattled Sinaloa Governor Returns and Leaves Office Again (In One Weekend) – Soberanía 121
Sinaloa Governor Rocha Moya’s one-weekend return and exit, the collapse of U.S.-Canada trade talks, and the far-right Cerimedo network from Bolivia to Miami.
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Analysis
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A Hundred Years After ‘La Cristiada’
“The Cristero War stands as an example of the high cost that political struggles among the elites of power can have for society when they act irresponsibly,” concludes Meyer.
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The Normalization of the Abnormal
Palestine’s ambassador to Mexico, Nadya Rasheed, denounces the normalization of genocide in Gaza: more than 73,000 Palestinians killed, homes, schools and hospitals destroyed, water poisoned — and a world that looks away.
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Wages: Reversing the Neoliberal Damage
Wages now make up 30.8% of GDP (4.1 points more than in 2018) and labor poverty fell to 31.9%: the Fourth Transformation reversing decades of neoliberal wealth transfer to those at the top.
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The Three Sovereignties: The Civilizational Crisis of the West
“The East does not reproduce the Western paradigm of a single dominant pole, but its opposite,” argues Rojas Silva.
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Mexico’s Financial Sector Is a Shackle on Development
Drawing on Mariana Mazzucato’s critique, Mario Campa argues that Mexico’s concentrated commercial banking and starved development banking hold back the country’s development.
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Twenty Foundations Moved from Philanthropy to Funding Opponents of Mexico’s 4T
Aníbal García Fernández tracks 20 business-linked foundations that gave 2.7 billion pesos in 2025. As USAID money dried up, part of it was redirected to think tanks and NGOs.
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Rocha, Cerimedo and the Beast
“What of Rocha. What of Cerimedo. What of Negre. What of “Alito” and the other worms. The issue is the beast that drools and growls on the porch of our house,” writes Páez Varela.
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What Awaits Migrant Kids “Al Otro Lado?”
Kathy Kruger Castro, a Mexican attorney at Al Otro Lado, was separated from her brother for 10 years at the border. Now she fights for unaccompanied migrant kids.
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