Clicks December 28
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics.
Kurt Hackbarth, Mexico’s Successful Left Project Is Under Threat From Trump Jacobin. Mexico’s hugely popular president, Claudia Sheinbaum, won massive reforms in 2025. But with the Donald Trump administration’s neocolonial interventions in Latin America, next year will be a fight for survival.
Peniley Ramírez, FIFA: cheque en blanco y FIFA: las costos secretos Sonora Presente. El Mundial de Futbol que se disputará el próximo verano es una operación de Estado, con un costo multimillonario para el gobierno mexicano, en beneficio de grandes empresas y de la FIFA.
Oscar Lopez, British baker outrages Mexicans with attack on their ‘ugly’ bread The Guardian. Food bloggers liken Richard Hart to Christopher Columbus for ‘stomping’ on a country that has welcomed him.
Jorge Durand, Avalancha navideña La Jornada. El juguete tradicional mexicano, hecho a mano, de madera u otro material, todavía sigue vigente, pero tiende a desaparecer por la avalancha de juguetes de plástico.
President Sheinbaum leads distribution of 2.5 million free books for Mexico and Latin American readers Riviera Maya News. The collection consists of Latin American authors and will be distributed in Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, and Peru. The free books will be distributed to readers aged 15 to 30 from the 25 for the Twenty-Five collection of the Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Aníbal García Fernández, Derechas y ultraderechas en América Latina Revista Contralínea. En América Latina se desarrolla una disputa política entre las izquierdas y las derechas que incluye el terreno de conceptos como igualdad, democracia y libertad. Grupos reaccionarios se apropian de esas “banderas” al tergiversar su noción, y aprovechan las crisis política, económica, social y hasta climática del mundo para colocarse como opciones políticas fascistas que regresan al poder.
Fernanda Pesce, Meet the Indigenous women behind Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s ‘most stylish’ looks The Sentinel. “In each embroidery there is not only a lot of work, there is tradition, there is history, there is legacy … each embroidery represents something that a woman designed and thought of,” Sheinbaum.
México supo conectar con Trump y es el gran ganador: WSJ. El comercio romperá récord Sin Embargo. El diario estadounidense y uno de los medios más influyentes en el mundo de la economía sostiene que la Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum ha logrado conectar con Trump y controlar su uso del comercio como palanca en asuntos no económicos.
Pablo Meriguet, Trump threatens military operations in Colombia and Mexico People’s Dispatch. The US president stated that if the situation does not change, “Petro is next”. He also threatened to invade Mexico and impose special tariffs on Mexican products if Mexico did not provide more water.
Fabiola Martínez y Alma E. Muñoz, Se analizan costos de producción en serie de sustituto de glifosato: Sheinbaum La Jornada. “Tenemos que encontrar un sustituto (del glifosato) lo más pronto posible para poder mejorar la salud de todas y de todos”, expresó la presidenta Sheinbaum.
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Thousands Demand Clean Water in Jalisco and Lemus Uses It to Repress Them
In Jalisco, governed by the opposition party Movimiento Ciudadano, police met the march with water cannons and tear gas, and protesters reported arrests and two people disappeared.
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Hurricane Simon Paralyzes Towns and Highways in Jalisco Amid Forecast That It Will Make Landfall
With an erratic path, the Category 4 storm keeps the coast shut in under nonstop rain, though no casualties have been reported so far.
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Mexican Book Fairs
“Book fairs in Mexico are among the great gatherings that speak of how a people nourishes itself on books,” observes Poniatowska.
