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Most of the money goes to generation, plus 140 billion pesos for gas pipelines, since power plants burn about 60% of the country’s natural gas.
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The new OAS Council president, born in Durango, was Noboa’s interior minister when Ecuadorian police stormed Mexico’s embassy in Quito in 2024.
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Dual nationals will have to renounce their other citizenship before registering, starting with the 2028 election.
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Asked about López Obrador’s broadside against Ambassador Johnson, she pointed to the agencies’ own Tlatelolco files but said she must also safeguard diplomacy.
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Open in nine states, they are the first of 500 the ISSSTE will add to a network of 12,750 clinics serving anyone, insured or not, from January 2027.
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Former governor Guillermo Ortiz and ex-president Ernesto Zedillo are among those collecting pensions of up to 400,000 pesos, above the President’s own salary.
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The clinics will offer free care and 60 basic medicines starting in January, while home visits have already detected more than 568,000 hypertension patients.
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In his new book Pueblo, López Obrador calls the revoking of his son’s visa “villainous” and accuses U.S. agencies of fabricating cases with phony evidence.
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The UN has identified 214 companies tied to Israel’s settlements in Palestinian territory, among them the Mexican conglomerate Orbia.
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After 800 layoffs and a rejected wage offer, the independent union at VW’s Puebla plant, the largest outside Germany, reached a tentative 13.16% deal.
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WFP chief Carl Skau singled out Mexico’s school meals, front-of-package labeling and local purchasing, models already being shared with Colombia and Peru.
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The 079 option 1 Women’s Line has taken 20,000 calls in just over a year and detected femicidal violence in a third of them.
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States can receive training and equipment from abroad, Sheinbaum said, but it all has to go through the federal government, and this ceremony skipped it.
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The Coast Guard boarded the Grace in the Caribbean in early September and had Mexico’s Navy inspect it in Progreso, but only announced it a month later.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on single nationality, Morena’s anniversary, energy sovereignty, and the Lie Detector.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on women’s rights, sovereignty, public approval, and social media violence.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on October 2, youth protection, culture, and national heritage.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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US Goes Behind Sheinbaum’s Back – Soberanía 127
Ron Johnson’s unauthorized police academy in Querétaro, AMLO’s return with his new book “Pueblo,” Brazil’s tight Lula–Bolsonaro runoff, and Meta censoring journalism.
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Analysis
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Provoke AMLO
“That old man they give up for dead will return to the plazas if necessary. Get ready, because he has the strength to travel the country once more,” warns Páez Varela.
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Fernando Cerimedo’s International Network Includes the PRI and Sí por México
In Contralínea, Aníbal García Fernández shows how Cerimedo’s network reaches Mexico’s right-wing opposition, through the man who ran an anti-Morena group’s social media.
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Judicial Reform in Mexico: Morena, the Opposition, and How History Was Made
In part two of his paper, Luke Pickrell examines Mexico’s historic 2024 judicial reform: how Morena built mass trust while the PRI and PAN collapsed under neoliberalism and a failed drug war.
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Afro-Descendants in the Independence
“Guerrero’s army was made up mostly of Black and mulato men who made possible the triumph of the insurgent cause,” writes Felipe Ávila, director of Mexico’s National Institute of Historical Studies of the Revolutions.
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Labor Rights Are Human Rights
“Now, the companies hire thugs, some connected to cartels, to intimidate workers,” warns Meizhu Lui, co-founder of the Mexico Solidarity Project, in our latest bulletin, urging Mexico to recognize labor rights as human rights.
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Dignity and Sovereignty
“The ultraconservative US elite that governs that divided country” engages in “fierce belittling and devaluation of the Mexican,” warns Linares Zapata.
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Mexico Records Significant Findings in Strategic Minerals
“The Burgos Basin and the north of the country are to Mexico what the Orinoco Belt is to Venezuela,” writes García Fernández.
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From Fast and Furious to Walking Fentanyl: Lessons Not Learned by the US
Nancy Flores digs into declassified emails showing the DEA let fentanyl ‘walk’ New Mexico streets, echoing the ATF’s Fast and Furious guns to the Sinaloa Cartel a decade earlier.
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