NEWS BRIEFS
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Mexican Energy Dependence & Exposure
Without a planned transition, without genuine diversification, and with declining oil production that no longer guarantees its own market share, Mexico faces a scenario in which neither gas nor oil operate as strategic levers.
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Only 32 Labour Inspectors in Mexico City for Over 460,000 Companies
Between October 2024 and August 2025, the first year of the current local administration, the Labor Secretariat carried out only 592 workplace visits.
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Hidalgo Communities Protest CONAGUA Over Endhó Dam Pollution
Despite the fact that in 2024 the dam was declared an ecological restoration zone, residents complain they have not seen favorable results.
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Fears Anti-Monuments Could be Removed in Mexico City Before World Cup
CDMX’s Head of Government as said that she respects the memorials, but has also warned that she can move them, stoking fears.
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Oaxaca Governor Dismisses 12 Cabinet Members After Recall Referendum
La Jornada recently documented that at least 20 state public officials are related to the Morena governor.
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Workers Party Proposes to Guarantee Two Days of Rest
The deputies propose to reform Article 123 of Mexico’s Constitution to guarantee the right of two days of rest for every five days of work.
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Steelworkers Plan Parallel Trip to Mexico During Labour-Excluded “Team Canada” Trade Mission
The Canadian-American labour delegation to Mexico includes representatives of the USW, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center.
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Cineteca Will Conduct Assessment of Staff Working Conditions
An official responded three days after the peaceful protest by Colectiva Cineteca, which brings together 240 employees out of the 340 who work at the three Cineteca locations.
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Complaints about Bank Debt Collection Increase 21%
The main types of complaints were attempting to collect from non-debtors and acts of threat or intimidation.
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University of Sonora Union Demands 50% Salary Increase; Doesn’t Rule out Strike
The union also proposes increases in benefits such as food baskets and contributions to the savings fund.
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Wrap-Around Ads Reappear in Mexico City Despite Ban
Besides being extreme eyesores of corporate distastefulness, such advertisements can also present serious dangers in the event of a fire.
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Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional Workers Hired Through Outsourcing Demand Dignified Treatment
Colectiva Cineteca represents workers between 30 & 40 years of age, some of whom have worked there for more than 18 years.
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Mexico’s Consumer Protection Agency Setting New Guidelines for Ticket Sales
The head of PROFECO announced the guidelines following fines against the monopoly Ticketmaster over issues related to Kpop group BTS ticket sales.
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Cuban Ambassador Expresses Gratitude for Mexican Solidarity
The Mexico City collection center – located almost at the corner of Corregidora and Plaza de la Constitución – will remain open until February 22.
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Kurt Hackbarth, Trump Is Using Mexico’s Oil to Put the Squeeze on Cuba Jacobin. The alternative, however, is to let Cuba starve: the process of Gaza-ification brought into this hemisphere. If this were to succeed, and Mexico were…
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Unions Warn 40 Hour Workweek Reform Could be “Paper-Only”
Multiple unions raised concerns over the maintenance of a six day workweek, overtime pay reduction and an increase in tax burdens for workers.
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Workweek Reform Lowers Overtime Pay
“As it stands, the reform gives employers tools to extend the workday more cheaply than before,” labour specialist Loyo concluded, opening the door to an effective 52 hour work week.
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Hyundai Supplier Union Wins Recognition
After a four and a half year fight, SITRABICS was recognized as a union of transport workers in the supply chains in Mexico & the US.
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Mexican Senate Committees Approve Gradual 40 Hour Work Week
Workers Party Senator Gonzalo Yañez stated all arguments in favor of the reform are undermined by the issue of overtime pay & complained that initiatives presented by PT legislators had not been taken into account. Nevertheless, he said, they would vote in favour.
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Mexico’s Largest Trade Union Federation Adds 2 to Leadership Race
Three candidates vie for the leadership of what is generally regarded as a corporatist behemoth, while the possibility of a national unity ticket looms, dimming the potential sharp debate.
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8 Million App Users, TV Soap Opera Ad… & the PAN Still Can’t Find New Members
In Mexico, where political parties are currently publicly financed, the right wing PAN has spent a staggering amount during its lackluster recruitment drive.
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Mexico’s National Film Archives Workers Demand Dignity
“Our struggle is legitimate; we are not asking for privileges or luxuries, only better working conditions and job security. We also seek dialogue. This situation has become unsustainable.”
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Washington’s strategy to recolonize America, public rail, cross-border unionization, FOBAPROA’s legacy, and the dubious 40 hour workweek reform.
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WTF: The Donroe Doctrine Vs Mexico
Saturday, February 7 morning broadcast of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean with José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth from Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast.
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A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere
This major setback in nearly three decades offers an uncomfortable lesson: measles elimination is not lost overnight; it erodes slowly.
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Sheinbaum: The Regime of Privileges Will Not Return
The Mexican President spoke at the 109th anniversary of the 1917 Mexican Constitution, which was one of the most advanced social constitutions at its time, & inspired the Soviet constitution.
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Committee Rejects CDMX Mayor Brugada’s Cultural Project at Tlaxcoaque Memorial
The building was identified as one of the main centers of torture & clandestine detention during the period of state political violence, and is part of an ongoing investigation into forced disappearances.
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In 2025, 297 Businesses Polluted Mexico’s Atoyac River & Were Only Fined An Average $1,800 USD Per Offender
While Puebla’s Water Agency uses fines to settle debts, the Atoyac River continues to receive discharges from factories that pay a minimal cost for failing to comply with wastewater regulations.
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Aceves del Olmo Leaves CTM, PRI’s Labour Wing, After a Decade
The leadership of Mexico’s largest trade union federation has traditionally, and controversially, been a lifetime position.
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Cambiémosla Ya: US-Mexico Critical Minerals Action Plan Puts Mexican Sovereignty At Risk
The collective believes the action plan is a betrayal of campaign promises, and a threat to Mexico, its town and its common resources.
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Constellation Brands Brewery Workers Seek Alternate Union
Workers in Obregón City, Sonora affiliated with Frente Unido Section 27, supported by SINAGA.
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Morena’s Magdalena Rosales Says Mexican Oil for Cuba Represents Essential Humanitarian Support
“We Mexicans stand in solidarity with the Cuban people, we stand in solidarity with all the peoples that the empire wants to crush.”
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Morena Legislators Defend Gradual 40 Hour Workweek, Lack of Two Days Off
Mexico’s 40 hour workweek will only come into effect in 2030, critics say the legislation opens the door to 12 hour workdays and reduced overtime pay.
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White House Commemorates War with Mexico as Origin of Military Power & Territorial Expansion
Donald Trump added humiliation to his diplomatic Donroe doctrine of subjugation, not cooperation.
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Mexico’s Proposed Workweek Law Promises Triple Overtime, but Fear Rules the Workplace
Dozens of consulted workers agree on a pattern: overtime is not negotiated, it is ordered and refusing it usually results in veiled threats, shift changes, pay cuts or disguised firings.
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Morena and Workers Party Deputies Create Mexico-Cuba Sisterhood Group
“Access to energy is not a luxury: it is a basic condition to guarantee health services, education, water supply, food production and the functioning of daily life.”
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A Migrant by Any Other Name is a Migrant
Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete lived in the US as an undocumented immigrant for 20 years. Now back in Mexico City, he’s a founder of Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior.
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“Historic Day” – Final Section of El Insurgente Train Inaugurated
The 57.7-kilometer journey between Mexico City and Toluca will take less than an hour and cost 100 pesos.
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San Quintín Workers Blockade, Sheinbaum Reprimands Morena Members: “Work more with the people!”
Farmworkers in the San Quintin Valley initiated a blockade to protest corruption in the San Quintin municipality prior to President Sheinbaum’s visit.
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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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Mexican Anti-imperialist Front in Support of Venezuela Founded in Morelos
On February 7th, a national march for Venezuela will be held to demand the release of Maduro and Flores, and marches or rallies will take place in the capitals of each state.
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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Mexican oil for Cuba, the Pascual cooperative, negative view of US, Mexican gas dependence, US immigration policy, and Mexico City’s missing Utopias.
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Mexico City Protest Demands Mexico Continue Sending Oil to Cuba
The rally condemned US President Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba and decried the over 60 year old blockade against the island.
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Debt on the Installment Plan: Salinas Pliego Pays $10B MXN; $22B in Installments
The ultra-right winger and tax evader fumes, but begins to pay his debt piece-by-piece, but with less punitive measures than his Grupo Elektra receives.
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“Cooperation, Not Subordination?” No Oil from Mexico for Cuba, Sheinbaum Says Will Help “without putting Mexico at risk”
The sad reality behind President Sheinbaum’s oft-repeated slogan on Mexico-US relations.
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Mexico’s Gig Worker Reform Risks Institutionalizing Exclusion of Women Workers
Workers are demanding that platform companies implement real protocols against violence, with effective sanctions & a guarantee that “reporting will not bring us algorithmic punishments.”
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Mexican Union Fights in US After First Brands Bankruptcy & Factory Closures
Mexican workers with 30 years of seniority were told by the legal advisors of the US autoparts company that “there was no money to pay salaries or continue operations.”
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PEMEX & Mexico’s Energy Ministry Remain Silent on All Crude Oil Shipments to Cuba
PEMEX canceled a scheduled oil shipment this month.
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Trump Signs Executive Order: Punitive Measures Against Any Country “that directly or indirectly provides oil” to Cuba
The US President wants to destroy Cuba and starve its population and he wants Mexico to help. Or else.
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Cuban Embassy Denounces US Blockade Tightening & Persecution of Those Who Help
Johana Tablada asserted that the Cuban people will follow the example of their national hero in defending the island’s right to choose its own destiny.
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Will Incorporate Legal Knowledge of Indigenous & Afro-Mexican Peoples
“[Justice] must get closer to reality, and to get closer to reality we need method, we need knowledge, we need systematization, we need the people who demand justice, who cry out for justice, who mobilize out there.”
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Mexico’s Ex-President Felipe Calderón Called a “murderer” in France
Calderón’s specious drug war produced 120,000 homicides during his reign, representing an 140% increase compared to the previous presidential term.
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Mexico’s Labour & Social Welfare Secretariat Will Protect Workers From First Brands Bankruptcy
Patrick James, founder of the US autoparts company, has been indicted on fraud charges, while 7 plants are closed and more than 4,000 Mexican workers are now jobless.
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Mexican Government Rejects Accusations of Interference in US through Consulates
On Wednesday, Trump promoted a book that accuses Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration of organizing an “invisible coup” against the United States.
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Mexico Conspires to Invade US, says Book Promoted by Trump
The book outlines a Bannon-adjacent conspiracy theory that the Mexican government and elites in the United States are using immigrants in this country as a secret weapon.
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PEMEX Cancels Cuban Oil Shipment, Humanitarian Aid Might Continue
Will the shipment of oil as humanitarian aid continue? “We have to determine that based on the request,” Sheinbaum responded.
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Mexico City Public Works for 2026 World Cup Contradicts Needs of the Majority
Mexico negotiated a complete tax exemption for FIFA during Enrique Peña Nieto’s presidency (unlike agreements reached by Canada & the US) and a substantial commitment of public investment.
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UNAM Launches Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros Exhibit
The exhibition Siqueiros, Imprisoning the Flame will combine his writings, state records and photographs, and will open on February 4.
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Betrayal? Cuba Oil Shipment Apparently Cancelled, Sheinbaum Evasive, Says “Sovereign Decision”
The Mexican President initiated evasive maneuvers in response to direct questioning about a reportedly cancelled shipment of oil to Cuba.
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Solidarity Après la Lettre Dispatch #1
The Progressive International’s Nuestra América Summit, the San Carlos Declaration, and What Comes Next
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The San Carlos Declaration of the Nuestra América Emergency Summit
Full text of the declaration arising from the Progressive International’s Nuestra América summit held on January 24th and 25th, 2026 in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Mexican Government to Investigate Ticketmaster Monopoly for BTS Ticket Sales Irregularities
Mexico’s Attorney General indicated that the fines against the ticketing company could reach up to $230k USD.
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PAN’s Desolate “Mass” Membership Drive
It began in October with an arena event where Maximiliano Cortázar fell into a pool. Three months and only 3,500 new members later, the ultra-right party is still floundering in the deep end.
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Salinas Pliego Did Not Pay Tax Debt, Still Negotiating
A five-day grace period which would allow the ultra-right winger a 39% discount on his nearly $3 billion USD tax debt has passed.
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Mexico City Investigating Ultra-right Mayors in Connection with “Gen-Z” Shock Groups
Two investigations were launched in Cuauhtémoc & Miguel Hidalgo following accusations against Alessandra Rojo de la Vega & Mauricio Tabe Echartea related to the half-geriatric, half-lumpen march in November.
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Former DEA Agent Sentenced for Protecting Drug Trafficking Friends
Such cases are not rare for the corrupt American institution, which portrays itself as waging some sort of Drug War, but in reality operates as a critical management link between drug traffickers and the US security state.
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Sheinbaum: Wage Policies & Social Programs Broke Decades of Neoliberal Neglect
During a tour of Puebla, Mexico’s President cited these changes as reversing the historical backwardness faced by the popular sectors.
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Progressive International’s Emergency Nuestra América Summit Arrives at Critical Juncture for Latin American Unity
Beset by disunity, cynical calculation, tepid reformism and an ascendant ultra-right, Latin America and the Caribbean must unite against a US imperialism which aims to snuff out any emancipatory possibilities and subjugate the continent once and for all.