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.
STAGNANT WATERS
The Morena government is refusing to fulfill its campaign promise to repeal Calderón’s 2007 ISSSTE Law and is seeking to confine the issue of pensions, handed over to private banks under the predatory Afore model, to a weak and very provisional scheme.
CETEG TEACHERS REDECORATE SNTE HQ
Striking teachers burned photographs of controversial union leader Alfonso Cepeda Salas, head of SNTE, who was last year appointed a plurinominal Senator by the Morena government, which is negotiating with striking teachers.
CNTE TO CONTINUE MEXICO CITY MOBILIZATION
Teachers have been occupying Mexico City’s Zócalo for over 20 days, seeking to finally end neoliberal education reforms and privatized pensions.