MEXICO’S MOMENTOUS JUDICIAL ELECTION
Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, joins US news program Breakthrough News with Eugene Puryear & Rania Khalek to discuss Mexico’s historic judicial elections. In the landmark elections where judges were chosen by popular vote, Hackbarth says the Morena-led reforms are a crucial step to overhauling a judiciary long plagued by corruption and nepotism.
Striking Teachers’ Salary Cuts Will be Reinstated in August
Deductions taken from the more than 12,000 teachers for participating in the recent national strike will be reimbursed in the second half of August.
A Pact with Banking Oligarchies to Not Touch Pension Gold Mine
4T administrations have opted for agendas replicating the crisis of progressive Latin American countries: prioritizing partisan hegemonies of agreement with right-wing parties; and encouraging the electoral mobilization of citizens as the only valid form of political participation.
Teachers In the Streets
All the teachers’ demands are justified, and repeal of the ISSSTE would not just benefit all public sector workers, but all workers, says teacher Ángel Custodio Guadarrama in this interview.