Briefs
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Soberanía 37: Canadian Mines Strip Mexico Bare
Why is Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau trying to throw Mexico under the bus in the face of tarrif negotiations with Donald Trump and what is the central role played by Canadian mining companies in the Mexico-Canada bilateral relationship?
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People’s Mañanera December 2
Rosaio Castellanos University expansion, price controls on food, disabilities pensions, 3.88 million children receive Rita Cetina scholarship, new presidential decrees, responding to Canadian politicians, AMLO’s legacy and the PAN is the real estate cartel.
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CLICKS DECEMBER 1
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, this week mostly about Mexican diplomatic successes and Canadian tomfoolery and racism.
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Soberanía 36: Mexico Unbowed by Trump’s Tariff Threats
Trump has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all goods from Mexico, Canada, and China but Mexico’s government is unbowed & two-faced Trudeau.
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Sheinbaum Responds to Trump
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to US President-elect Donald Trump’s recent call for a 25% tariff on imports in an open letter.
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CLICKS NOVEMBER 24
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Trump and the Drug War, return of the migrants, AFL-CIO in Mexico, the new national water plan, new labour reform, corporatist trade unionism returns?, the China question and the legacy of the Mexican Revolution.
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CLICKS NOVEMBER 20
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including price controls bring groceries even cheaper, right wing hatred, Canada tries to divide Mexico & US, 40 hour workweek, Sheinbaum criticizes arms spending, Trump tarrifs, US ambassador Ken Salazar can’t shut his mouth.
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Soberanía 35: Sheinbaum at the G20
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called on countries to use 1% of money spent on defense to instead fund a global reforestation program & also reiterated Mexico’s call for a reform of the UN and Security Council.
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Soberanía 34: Mexico Is A Free, Independent, Sovereign Country
What does Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections mean for the Mexico-US bilateral relationship? President Claudia Sheinbaum has her answer.
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CLICKS NOVEMBER 11
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Biden admin plans a final insult to migrants, Chiapos and narcotrafficking, Canadian mining corporate crimes, ending relations with Israel, Garrido Canabal, judicial reform moves forward.
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Tren Maya: is another tourism possible?
A video featuring voices and viewpoints in relation to the dilemmas and opportunities with the Tren Maya, calling for project authorities to decisively commit to the strengthening of community-led tourism.
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Soberanía Live: Democracy on the Line
Mexican Coup Plots and US Elections
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CLICKS NOVEMBER 4
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO’s public infrastructure, judicial reform fight, informal workers, anti-corruption advances, FIFA corruption and Mexican bourgeoisie, NAFTA, unions win wage increase, US continues to bully Mexico over Chinese trade.
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Mexico Demands Arms Embargo Against israel
Mexico joined 53 countries and organizations calling to stop arms shipments to israel.
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Soberanía 33: Mexico’s Private Right-Wing TV Networks Are in Trouble
It’s fun watching Mexican oligarchs get their comeuppance: Televisa Chairman Emilio Azcárraga Jean falls and TV Azteca problems. Claudio X. González is a “toxic failson”. And in the Losers and Haters, Ryan Berg and academics like him.
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CLICKS OCTOBER 29
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including minimum wage increases, Chinese investment, climate change policy, labour reform for gig workers, new house-to-house health program, protests against Canadian mining.
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Soberanía 32: Rogue Judge Seeks to Jail Mexican President
One judge thinks she can overrule 36 million voters, Genaro García Luna, Donald Trump’s lies about Chinese automakers in Mexico and Kurt and José Luis also discuss Sheinbaum’s plans to build 1 million housing units & efforts to improve children’s health.
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CLICKS OCTOBER 21
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Chinese investment, the crimes of Garcia-Luna, DEA corruption, border theatre, a new labour central, US-Mexico corn war, gig workers labour reform, and upcoming restrictions on politicians doing business.
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Soberanía 31: “HOLD UP, Ken!”
Tired of US Ambassador Ken Salazar running around Mexico like he owns the place, President Claudia Sheinbaum put a short leash on him, ordering the US diplomat to refrain from accessing her cabinet members directly and instead requesting meetings through the Foreign Affairs Secretariat, as it should be.
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LEFT RECKONING 189 w/ HACKBARTH & GRANADOS CEJA
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics podcast hosts Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja appear on Left Reckoning to discuss President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first few days as leader of Mexico.
ANALYSIS
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Whoever Wins, Mexico Loses
Mexico yearns for peace, but that requires a coordinated, multifaceted strategy, not US unilateral actions, be it a Republican or Democrat in the White House.
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Mexico Rising: Under AMLO, a Sharp Left Turn
An interview with historian Edwin F. Ackerman on the political origins, activities and legacy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Health Care Where There Is No Doctor
Part 1 of an interview with David Werner, radical author and health and social justice activist, co-founder and director of Healthwrights on his experience with campesino medicine.
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Mexico’s transformation advances with President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum
“It is the Time of Women” proclaims Claudia: her own election is symbolic of a much broader change.
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¡Reforma Ya!
Mexico’s political institutions reflect majority opinion; Morena is in power because the country’s political system allows third parties to grow (it’s only ten years old) and because most people support its policies, including democratizing the judiciary.
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Sovereignty Is Never Up for Negotiation
The sort of interference proposed by Brazil and Colombia is an affront to sovereignty, even when it comes from friendly governments.
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Nature and/or Economic Development?
In this interview, agroecologist Dr. Cecilia Elizondo explains a new “both/and” model of development being tried in Mexico of agro-ecology, wholistic development and food sovereignty.
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Ambassadors Salazar & Clark Win the Negroponte Prize
Ken Salazar, US ambassador, and Graeme Clark, Canadian ambassador, need an intensive course in the basics of international diplomacy.
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Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left
Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.
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Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike
An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.
PHOTOS
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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.