News
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The largest federal school investment ever will build 31 new high schools and create 156,240 student spots across basic, upper-secondary, and higher education.
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The fifth Utopía complex brings free health, culture, and care services to Iztapalapa, part of Brugada’s push to put Mexico City’s neglected peripheries first.
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Mexico is moving from diplomatic protest to legal action against GEO Group and CoreCivic, the private ICE contractors profiting as detained migrants die.
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By early July, the program had moved nearly 970,000 tons of fertilizer through 1,033 centers, and Coahuila was the first state to reach 100%.
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Sheinbaum backed a UN panel that found Castillo’s detention arbitrary, said his ouster lacked the votes Peruvian law required, and signaled Mexico is open to restoring ties with Lima.
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Sheinbaum said Calderón’s pacts with the Sinaloa Cartel and unchecked US operations drove homicides up 148%, citing Fast and Furious.
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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox handed his elite-funded complex, bankrolled by Slim, Azcárraga and Salinas, to a Catholic order on a 100-year loan.
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Built for about 928,000 pesos each—three to five times cheaper than Mexico City market rates—the units advance Brugada’s goal of 200,000 homes this term.
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The former lakebed is a natural flood-regulating reservoir, and building there would have required permanently draining water at enormous cost, Sheinbaum said.
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The Hyundai vehicles will cross by rail from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico bound for the U.S. East Coast, the second such run on AMLO’s flagship corridor.
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Most were returned by the United States; the standout is a Mixtec turquoise-mosaic skull recovered from a Dutch museum, among 17,778 pieces in recent years.
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The Sinaloa governor on leave, accused by the U.S. of narco ties, says he gave up his immunity 69 days ago and has no federal protection.
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El Niño, the cyclical Pacific warming that alters global weather, has a 97-100% chance of setting in over Mexico, peaking between November 2026 and January 2027.
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At a disarmament and gun-destruction event with the Catholic Church at the Basilica of Guadalupe, Sheinbaum said citizens have voluntarily handed in 11,679 firearms since October 2024.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on education investment, migrant protection, sugar exports, inflation, Ken Salazar, and Venezuela aid.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the recovery of cultural artifacts, the Pato Merlín family, foreign agencies, security, the El Mayo case, Venezuela, Texcoco, the 2026 World Cup, and AI regulation.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on El Niño, water infrastructure, migrant protection, sovereignty, inflation, Rocha Moya, and foreign interference.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Liar, Liar, Ten-Gallon Hat on Fire – Soberanía 114
In episode 114 of Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth cover a week of diplomatic scandals, World Cup drama, and economic news.
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Analysis
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Somos MX and the Media: Does Mexico’s New Party Revolve Around Salinas Pliego?
Somos MX, a new opposition party to Morena, is built less on a social base than on Mexico’s media oligarchy, including allies of magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
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When a Certain Argentine Right Hates Mexicans
“There is no spontaneous Argentine-Mexican conflict; there is a transnational circulation of narratives produced by influence networks, media, and algorithms that turn any disagreement between leaders into antagonism between peoples.”
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US Agencies, Especially the CIA, Pressure Mexico’s Sovereignty
Four US agents caught in Chihuahua exposed illegal intelligence on Mexican soil, reopening the debate over the CIA’s reach and Mexico’s sovereignty.
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Colombia’s Left After the 2026 Election: Defeat, Renewal, and the Future of the Pink Tide
A razor-thin conservative victory has not ended Colombia’s progressive movement. Organizers, unions, students, and community groups are already preparing for the next four years.
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The United States: Between Interference and the ‘Fight’ Against Drugs
The State Department’s INL bureau spent $819.8M in Mexico under AMLO, funding SAT-flagged NGOs and Venezuelan coup-plotters behind Bukele’s territorial-control plan.
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The Specter of the Far Right in Latin America
Economist Óscar David Rojas Silva reads Milei, Noboa and de la Espriella as proxies of a declining US empire—and maps how the left can answer.
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Scientific Commission’s Report on Fracking Is Not Conclusive
UNAM’s Fabio Barbosa says the commission still hasn’t found viable low-water fracking tech; Carlos Slim calls the business ‘irrational.’
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FIFA: Corporate State with Market Immunity
FIFA captures sovereign territory through tax exemptions and free infrastructure use; Peña Nieto’s irrevocable concessions shield 2026 World Cup contracts.
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