People’s Mañanera June 10
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public safety, firearms seizures, return of 20k nationals from US, demonstrations in US, public CFE in mobile phone market and the Halconazo.
Author: Mexico Solidarity
Halconazo: 54 Years Since the Corpus Christi Massacre
In 1971, Mexican President Luis Echeverría (previously Interior Secretary during the Tlatelolco massacre) unleashed a right wing paramilitary group, connected to a police training program run by the US government, to attack and murder students in Mexico City.
War and Rebellion in Los Angeles
If the conflicts persists or escalates, political elites will attempt to solve the contradictions through political-electoral disputes between Democrats & Republicans and their allied NGOs, attempting to wage a domestic war that, like foreign wars, requires both the carrot and the discreet stick.
People’s Mañanera June 9
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on events in Los Angeles, price controls, dipolomatic actions, pensions, G7 summit in Canada, and teachers issues.
CLICKS JUNE 9
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including US regime migrant repression, judicial elections, gun lawsuits, teachers strike, and migrant labour exploitation in Canada.
MEXICAN SENATE PRESIDENT CALLS FOR COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE ICE ABUSE
Gerardo Fernández Noroña called the treatment of migrants facing military intervention, ICE attacks as “unjustifiable, despicable and unjust.”
SHEINBAUM TO TRUMP: “THEY ARE NOT CRIMINALS”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned anti-migrant raids and the repressive use of the National Guard by the American regime.
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.
A LEFT WING REFEREE
Mexico’s new Judicial Disciplinary Tribunal has been elected. Five judges will focus on the oversight and discipline of judges, magistrates, and Supreme Court ministers.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA JUNE 6
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on remittances tax, mobilizing Mexicans in US, US agencies in Mexico, SEMARNAT, Ayotzinapa judge arrested, teachers strike, and the judicial election.