The Right to Life, Against Profit
Despite powerful forces aligned against them, community organizations can transform trade rules, defend territories, promote agroecology, seeds, and solidarity-based ways of life.
Author: Mexico Solidarity
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Outsourcing Ban Improved Wages and Benefits
A study found Mexico’s ban on outsourcing increased workers wages and reduced precarity, despite ominous predictions from employers who resisted the reform.
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People’s Mañanera June 27
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on taking control of three banks accused by US of money laundering, re-opening Bicentennial Park, singing competition, Grupo Salinas’ tax debts, judicial elections, migrants in US, and the new intelligence law.
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Artists, Writers, Academics Call for Sheinbaum to Welcome Gaza Orphans
In a June 24th public letter titled A Home for the Orphaned Children of Gaza, the signatories requested the “valuable diplomatic and managerial intervention” of Mexico’s President to grant asylum to orphaned children in Gaza.
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A Proposal to Tax Vacant Homes and Cap Airbnb in Jalisco
Representative Mariana Casillas seeks to curb real estate speculation and the impact of gentrification in Jalisco, using tax revenues to fund social housing and public programs.
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People’s Mañanera June 26
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference with comments on US accusations against Mexican banks for money laundering, “wellbeing” hubs, and United Nations payments.
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US Sanctions Mexican Banks for Money Laundering, No Evidence Provided
The US Treasury Department provided no evidence, but did provide a list including many transfers made with legally incorporated Chinese companies, raising suspicions that the US is attempting to limit Mexico-China trade.
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US Attacks Mexico, Calling it a “Foreign Adversary”
The comments were made by US Attorney General Pam Bondi during a Senate Approprations Committee hearing.
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Against Cuba: A Fetid, Arbitrary and Despotic Obsession
The oil Cuba requires to sustain its energy demands in the face of vicious US sanctions and financial attacks is truly minimal compared to Mexican production.
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Lázaro Cárdenas and the American Left
Both Lázaro Cárdenas and Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review understood that politics of anti-imperialism and national liberation, to be effective, must foster alliances across borders.
