SHEINBAUM: DIALOGUE WITH CNTE IS PERMANENT
President Sheinbaum made the comments amid the striking teachers’ blockade of the National Palace prior to the morning press conference.
Author: Mexico Solidarity
MURDERS SHAKE MEXICO CITY
Ximena Josefina Guzmán Cuevas and Jesús Muñoz Vega, murdered Tuesday morning, were young officials with long careers, public servants in the left-wing Morena administration of Clara Brugada.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 20
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on social causes of crime, reduction of truck robberies, national security report, casino regulation, corruption, US-Mexico relations, Buque Escuela Cuauhtémoc Ship Accident, and assassination of two CDMX officials.
CIA & MEXICO SPIED ON CUBAN & SOVIET DIPLOMATS, LEFTISTS UNTIL 1994
Newly declassified documents also reveal extensive spying on former President Lázaro Cárdenas, muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and plots to infiltrate the goverment, youth groups and to cultivate leftist journalists in order to surveil Latin American political activity.
DAMMING THE IRON RIVER
A Saturday, May 25th webinar by the Democratic Socialists of America and Global Exchange will discuss a campaign to help interrupt flow of guns from US to Mexico.
STRIKING TEACHERS LIBERATE HIGHWAY TOLLBOOTHS
On the national strike’s fifth day, CNTE teachers opened toll-booths to drivers in San Marcos, Tepotzotlán, Tlalpan, Chiapas and Guerrero. They stated they are willing to engage in dialogue, but the government has not set a date.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 19
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on social programs, student support, Youth Building the Future program, the Buque Escuela Cuauhtémoc accident, price controls, increase in budget for support programs, counteracting fuel theft, Elena Poniatowska, removal of Morena’s state president in Guerrero, and electing Supreme Court justices.
MEXICO CITY: MARCH AGAINST GAZA GENOCIDE
Thousands marched from the Angel of Independence to Zócalo, through rain and hail, to support Palestinian liberation.
4TV INTERVIEW WITH MEIZHU LUI
Meizhu Lui, founder and co-coordinator of the México Solidarity Project, appeared on 4TV’s Al Mediodía to discuss the project,
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 16
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on remittance tax, US agents in Mexico, SEMARNAT, arrest of judge connected to Ayotzinapa Case, teachers improvements, and the judicial elections.