NEWS BRIEFS
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CLICKS SEPTEMBER 7
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO’s final informe, US corps drying up Mexico, judicial reform, nearshoring jitters, child labor declining, and violence in Chiapas.
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EXAMINING MEXICAN POLITICS PT 1 w/ GRANADOS CEJA & HACKBARTH
Appearance on Class, the official podcast of the National Political Education Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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LEFT RECKONING w/ HACKBARTH & GRANADOS CEJA
Hackbarth & Granados Ceja discuss AMLO’s final days in office and the fight to continue to build from the victories of MORENA.
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De Chile, Mole y Pozole: Stories from Oaxaca
Writer, playwright, and journalist Kurt Hackbarth is a naturalized Mexican citizen living in Oaxaca. Committed to getting new writers published, he and his partner, Nidia Rojas, created their own publishing house.
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Internationalist Training Course
A call to the leftist, feminist, popular and anti-imperialist militants of the continent to join the Internationalist Training Course: A Minimum Floor.
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CLICKS AUGUST 31
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US & Canada diplomatic dustup, the judicial reform, mythbusting about cartels, new Texcoco ecological park, Kamala Harris wants to build the wall.
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Kurt Hackbarth on Breakthrough News
Mexico Solidarity Media’s Kurt Hackbarth on Breakthrough News to discuss the latest diplomatic dustup between Mexico and the United States of America (and its ‘client state’ Canada).
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SOBERANÍA 24 – AMLO to US Ambassador: Butt Out
AMLO tells oilman-turned-ambassador Ken Salazar to keep his nose out of Mexico’s business.
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CLICKS AUGUST 24
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US Ambassador Ken Salazar’s unwelcome intrusion into Mexican domestic affairs, the ongoing GMO corn fight, disappointment with the commission on 70s counterinsurgency crimes, Mexico City passses rent control, Mexico & China trade, US Democrats take aim at migrants.
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SOBERANÍA 23 – How the US Uses NGOs to Promote Regime Change
A new report from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggests the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy says Mexico is “major target country for infiltration” and US funding bothered President Andres Manuel López Obrador so much that he sent a diplomatic letter to Joe Biden.
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CLICKS AUGUST 19
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Mexico respecfts Venezuelan sovereignty, the sad decline of Proceso magazine, USAID funding and US meddling in Mexican politics, and labor news.
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SOBERANÍA 22 – Paying Mexico’s Historic Debt
Mexico’s Morena-led government continues to push ahead to fulfill their mandate by approving a monumental and long overdue constitutional reform granting greater autonomy for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples,
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SOBERANÍA 21 – CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP
Morena’s moves to push forward progressive constitutional reforms on housing, the minimum wages, social programs and more.
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CLICKS AUGUST 5
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO sees no evidence of fraud in Venezuela, the diminishing fortunes of Mexico’s right wing opposition, Trump wants to strike “cartels”, minimum wage raises above inflation moves forward, US manufacturers continue rushing to Mexico, PEMEX workers win 5% wage hike, social housing for youth…
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SOBERANÍA 20 – The Capture of El Mayo Zambada: Who Wins?
What’s behind the capture of El mayo Zambada, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug traffickers?
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SOBERANÍA 19 – ELECTORAL LAWFARE
The Mexican right wing attempt to steal Morena’s legislative supermajority through electoral lawfare, PAN confesses what we always knew wall along, and Tim Golden’s latest DEA sourced hit piece in ProPublica.
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CLICKS JULY 22
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US unions decry Caterpillar move to Mexico, multipolar opportunities, agroecology, Trump & Mexico, ongoing revival of passenger rail, Mexican humanism, China & Mexican green energy cooperation, the curse of water privatization, Canadian mining crimes, corn dispute.
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SOBERANÍA 18 – Will MAGA Reloaded Set its Sights on Mexico?
What are the potential consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency for Mexico? Also, Morena’s overhaul of the judiciary, new tariffs on Chinese metals and greenwashing propaganda from The Guardian.
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CLICKS JULY 15
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Communism coming to Mexico soon warns Bishop, energy reforms, steel tarrifs, rising wages for unionized workers, tech corp profiteering and the border issue.
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SOBERANÍA 17 – Fishy Financing at Anti-AMLO Outlet ‘Latinus’
Soberanía dives into the criminal investigation of the funding of a far-right propaganda outlet, Morena’s controversies surrounding Sergio Mayer and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, and President-elect Sheinbaum’s cabinet picks.
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CLICKS JULY 8
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. The Western Left takes a glance at Mexico, Taibo II’s popular press, more DEA corruption, inequality, Monsanto in Mexico, migration, David Harvey in CDMX, CNTE’s fight for popular pedagogy.
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Right wing tries to discredit Mexico’s election
An interview with Rafael Barajas, El Fisgón, head of Morena’s National Institute of Political Education.
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SOBERANÍA BONUS – International Reaction to Sheinbaum’s Victory
Kurt Hackbarth speaks with Dr. Escamilla Ham, expert on US-Mexico relations, on the international reaction to Claudia Sheinbaum’s election.
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CLICKS JUNE 30
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Neoliberalism as corruption, eco-reserves, GMO corn dispute, US flooding Mexico with guns, the figure of Alazraki.
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Historic opportunity for Mexico’s Left
Morning Star Mexico correspondent David Raby looks at how the decisive electoral victory for Morena candidates will translate into policy.
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SOBERANÍA SPECIAL – AMLO’s Progressive Reforms to Mexico’s 1917 Constitution
A special co-production with the Democratic Constitution Podcast on proposed constitutional reforms, including the controversial effort to radically change Mexico’s judiciary, and why these changes can cement AMLO’s legacy.
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CLICKS JUNE 22
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Judicial reform, Latin American integration, public sector driven energy transition, Clara Brugada’s utopias.
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This Chicano is Inspired by Mexican Election
Bill Gallegos, a veteran Chicano liberation activist, environmental justice leader, and revolutionary socialist, has a lot to celebrate and anticipate.
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Claudia Sheinbaum: Morena Comes of Age
An interview with Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete, coordinator of the Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior, on Claudia Sheinbaum & Morena’s victory.
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LEFT RECKONING w/ MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth
What does Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic electoral victory mean for Mexico’s 4th Transformation and what lessons can the US left learn from it?
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Weekly News Items June 17
The Mexican Right is defeated and the PRI bankrupt, Brugada to expand social housing, public banking success, mining strike, migration battle, state utility expansion, and new possibilities in the labor reform.
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Working Class Poverty: A Historical Turn
Working poverty is an outrageous hardship, since it cannot be attributed to the lack of will of individuals to get ahead, but rather to the pettiness of employers or failed business models that do not allow jobs to be created in conditions of respect for human rights.
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REAL NEWS NETWORK w/ MSM’s José Luis Granados Ceja
José Luis Granados Ceja debates Tamara Pearson on the meaning of AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum and the 4th Transformation.
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SOBERANÍA 16 – Capitalist FREAK-OUT
International financial markets and their teareaders in the corporate press react to Sheinbaum’s intention to follow through on her mandate & pursue constitutional reforms.
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The Challenges of Mexico’s Labor Reform
While the capitalists want to enforce borders that workers can’t cross, we are showing that yes, we can! Through communication, cooperation, and organization, working-class power can jump over borders.