Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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SOBERANÍA 59: THE CIA’S MAN IN MEXICO
Trump’s Green Beret/CIA ambassador has arrived to take up his post as US ambassador to Mexico. And his first day in the country was… interesting.
ANALYSIS
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DESPAIR & NOSTALGIA
As the government’s social programs and security strategy produce results, organized crime groups must be feeling a potent (and dangerous) mixture of despair and nostalgia.
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THE 1935 FORMULA FOR 2025?
Why does a well-positioned President like Sheinbaum today want or need “operators” who emerged from the PRI or in equally reprehensible environments, and what lessons does Cárdenas’ experience in 1935 have here?
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LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BARRICADES
An interview with Rafael Barajas Durán, El Fisgón, the cartoonist on political humour and political education.
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THE TRUMP DOCTRINE
Given that Trump’s use of soft power has the threat of “hard power” behind it, Mexico should orient its foreign policy away from the unreliable US and look instead to the Global South.
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LET’S GO FOR SOCIALISM!
Marco Colussi writes that although capitalism appears triumphant today, we must continue to build the socialist alternative, which is the only one that can bring real improvement to all of humanity.
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THE HOPEFUL WORK OF TEACHING
It is in times of uncertainty that we most urgently need education that effectively trains citizens capable of transforming their context.
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SOBERANÍA: HELPING YOU TAKE OUT THE MEDIA TRASH
An interview with José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth, the duo from Mexico that host the Mexican Politics podcast that rebuts US media trash.
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FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MEXICO’S TEACHING PROFESSION
In the face of trends toward control, discredit, and containment, it is time to move forward collectively. The CNTE’s call for a national strike is crucial because it opens the door to uniting the diverse forces of outraged and mobilized teachers across Mexico.
SOLIDARITY
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AN URGENT PLEA FOR SOLIDARITY
Jaime is a militant leader of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union, who had been organizing workers at an open-pit mine owned by Orla Mining of Vancouver, BC, Canada. His life and the lives of his family are being threatened.
NEWS
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The Parque Bicentenario concession, previously privatized by the Peña Nieto government, will return to public hands, with the Secretary of Culture and CDMX government ensuring there are no corporate events. Read more…
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“The average real salary of a teacher is between 14 and 15 thousand pesos per month ($725-$775USD), which is totally insufficient to support a family.” Read more…
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President Sheinbaum made the comments amid the striking teachers’ blockade of the National Palace prior to the morning press conference. Read more…
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Ximena Josefina Guzmán Cuevas and Jesús Muñoz Vega, murdered Tuesday morning, were young officials with long careers, public servants in the left-wing Morena administration of Clara Brugada. Read more…
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Newly declassified documents also reveal extensive spying on former President Lázaro Cárdenas, muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and plots to infiltrate the goverment, youth groups and to cultivate leftist journalists in order to surveil Latin American political activity. Read more…
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A Saturday, May 25th webinar by the Democratic Socialists of America and Global Exchange will discuss a campaign to help interrupt flow of guns from US to Mexico. Read more…
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On the national strike’s fifth day, CNTE teachers opened toll-booths to drivers in San Marcos, Tepotzotlán, Tlalpan, Chiapas and Guerrero. They stated they are willing to engage in dialogue, but the government has not set a date. Read more…
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Thousands marched from the Angel of Independence to Zócalo, through rain and hail, to support Palestinian liberation. Read more…
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Meizhu Lui, founder and co-coordinator of the México Solidarity Project, appeared on 4TV’s Al Mediodía to discuss the project, Read more…
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Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including US threatens remittance tax, corrupt judge in Ayotzinapa case, cartel family escapes to US, CNTE strike, 40 hour work week, Morena’s cowardly approach to business interests, Mujica’s passing, and Parque Bicentenario events return to public control. Read more…
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The national strike is demanding the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE Law and neoliberal ex-president Peña Nieto’s education reform. Read more…
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While a proposed reform to end the plague of excessive Airbnb rentals remains stalled in Mexico City, in other areas related to social housing, advances are being made. Read more…
Mañanera del Pueblo
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 23
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on García Luna & Wife owing Mexico US$2.49 Billion, park concession expropriated, Calderón’s blathering, canceling meeting with striking teachers, remittances, energy reform, judicial elections, and the new telecommunications law.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 22
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Mexico-US relationship, respect for national sovereignty, economic update, healthcare investment, demonstrations, and food sovereignty.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 21
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on murder of Clara Brugada staff members, railway advances, CNTE dialogue, auto tarrifs reduced, dependency, and refuting circulating lies.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 20
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on social causes of crime, reduction of truck robberies, national security report, casino regulation, corruption, US-Mexico relations, Buque Escuela Cuauhtémoc Ship Accident, and assassination of two CDMX officials.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 19
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on social programs, student support, Youth Building the Future program, the Buque Escuela Cuauhtémoc accident, price controls, increase in budget for support programs, counteracting fuel theft, Elena Poniatowska, removal of Morena’s state president in Guerrero, and electing Supreme Court justices.
PHOTOS
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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,