Clicks July 13
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including tarrifs, gentrification protests, rescuing Lake Texcoco, corporate taxation, racism in Mexican society, and dismal results from Mexico’s top prosecutor.
Author: Mexico Solidarity
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Sheinbaum: We Are Not Going to Build Anything the People Don’t Agree With
President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed protestors in Ensenada who oppose the expansion of the El Sauzal port.
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Lake Texcoco: Life’s Triumph
The cancelation of the airport & survival of Lake Texcoco is to be welcomed, but environmental triumphs must be reinforced through education, awareness of rights, and mobilization against those who put private profit above the common good.
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Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Confirms Death of Mexican Farmworker During ICE Raid
Jaime Alanis García, who supported his wife and daughter, fell nine meters during the raid by the US’ Immigration & Customs Enforcement gang.
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The Left’s Missing Strategic Horizon
Figures like Zohran Mamdani and Jeanette Jara are merely fireworks intended to keep afloat a rickety left wing which has lost all strategic depth, incapable of advancing past fleeting tactical maneuvers that change nothing and are quickly forgotten.
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People’s Mañanera July 11
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Oaxaca’s Guelaguetza festival, Mexico Canta singing competition, US immigration raids, migrant repatriation, White House bilateral, poverty reduction and PEMEX.
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Health Sovereignty: From Profit-Driven Disorganization to Public Reconstruction
Healthcare can no longer be treated as a business. It’s time to rebuild what was dismantled.
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New Attack in California, 100 Migrants Kidnapped
A local television station reported that around 100 farmworkers were arrested in the raid prior to the protests, and that officers fired tear gas at the crowd during a subsequent clash with federal agents.
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People’s Mañanera July 10
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on agriculture and fishing programs, public grocery stores, social food production, Chocolate de Bienestar, screwworm, US-Mexico relations, Texas flood support, and 182,000 public homes to be built in 2025.
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Mexican Government Introduces Wellness Chocolate
The chocolate is sourced from small, peasant producers who cultivate the cocoa using agroforestry methods in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, and will be first made available at public Tiendas Bienestar.
