News
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The team of Héctor Vasconcelos, Mexico’s permanent representative to the UN, clarified that he was not in the General Assembly hall during Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, without specifying whether other delegation members joined the walkout.
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Larry Rubin, the Republican Party’s representative in Mexico, called on senators to reject President Sheinbaum’s reform requiring sole Mexican nationality for the presidency, governorships and head of government of Mexico City.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum said the presentation of new progress in the Ayotzinapa case, including new lines of investigation and analysis of phones, does not mean the investigation into the 43 students is closed.
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Now a Category 3 and expected to make landfall Monday as a Category 2, the storm has prompted 111 temporary shelters and port closures from Nayarit to Los Cabos.
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Despite threats from some PT leaders to drop the alliance over Morena’s choice of state coordinators, the party says the 2027 negotiating table is going well.
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Before 20,000 people in Hermosillo, days ahead of a Senate debate, the president defended requiring sole Mexican nationality to run for president or governor.
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Felipe Calderón and Luis Almagro headline the Sept. 30 Foro América Libre, a network of 70 conservative groups backed by Germany’s Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Ayotzinapa Case: The Report on the New Lines of Investigation Will Be on Monday, Sheinbaum Announces
Parents of the 43 protested the Army’s exoneration outside the CNDH; officials will now detail new arrests, searches and cellphone-data leads.
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Speaking for Sheinbaum, the foreign minister said Mexico’s Constitution already embodies the UN Charter and that it is time for a woman to lead the UN.
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The government will invest 32 million pesos in 100 fermentation modules so growers stop selling unfermented beans cheaply and earn more.
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Sheinbaum will travel to Shenzhen, China, for the APEC summit in November, where Mexico takes the baton as the next host, in 2028.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Received Lee Jae-Myung, President of the Republic of Korea, at the National Palace
Trade, culture, and education top the agenda of the Korean leader’s official visit, which includes the signing of a memorandum of understanding.
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The economy grew 3.3% year-over-year in July, driven by a 4% rise in trade and services, and has grown 1.5% so far this year.
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Civil registry records can now be processed from anywhere in the world, passport steps fell from 21 to five, and 30 million people already use the digital platform.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on workers’ rights, social programs, constitutional reforms, Ayotzinapa, and the UN.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on crime in Tabasco, tourism, jobs, the World Cup, and Ayotzinapa.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Plan México, red tape, the digital economy, IMPI, and life satisfaction.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Trump Unhinged: Goes After Mexico at UN – Soberanía 125
Trump’s UN attack on Mexico and Sheinbaum’s reply, Morena’s poll-based candidate selection for 2027, and the U.S. Embassy’s “made in China” Independence Day blunder.
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Analysis
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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.
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The Women of Mexico’s War of Independence
We interviewed Dr. Pedro Salmerón for our weekly bulletin to talk about Mexican Independence: “Like the nomads of Mongolia, they all moved together. Women participated directly.”
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Broken Promises and Discontent: Reforms to Mexico’s Supreme Court Between 1994 and 2018
In part one of his paper, Luke Pickrell explores Mexico’s Supreme Court during the neoliberal period and argues it was made to serve the elite rather than the people.
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“To Preserve Our Freedoms, We Must Defend Mexico’s Sovereignty”
In her Second Government Report, President Sheinbaum frames defending Mexico’s sovereignty —territorial, energy, food, financial, commercial, health, scientific, and even space— as essential to preserving the nation’s freedoms.
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