People’s Mañanera July 8
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public security, huachicol fuel theft strategy, and former President Peña Nieto.
Author: Mexico Solidarity
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Supreme Court Will No Longer be Held Hostage
Mexico’s incoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz says power groups persist within the judiciary, and that monitoring and sanctions are urgently needed, otherwise, within five years, vices will be widespread.
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Protest at Labor Ministry Demands 40 Hour Work Week Immediately
Front members accused Morena of using the proposal to win votes in its 2024 campaigns and now wanting to use it again until 2030.
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People’s Mañanera July 7
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on price controls, youth stipends, school financing, wellbeing programs, Argentinian-Mexican actress racist freakout, Indigenous and Afro-Mexican social infrastructure, BRICS, Texas flooding, IMSS, and digital platform workers.
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Airbnb-linked Fund Behind Mexico’s Rental Monopoly
Blueground is the largest provider of 30-day minimum stays in Mexico City; like Airbnb, it is funded by WestCap, an investment fund headed by Airbnb’s former CFO.
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CLICKS JULY 6
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including the ubiquitious and dismal saga of US-Mexico relations, Mexico City anti-gentrification protests, public-private partnerships in renewables, Heineken to suck Yucatán dry, sanctions on Mexican banks, and Peña Nieto and Israel deal.
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Puerto Vallarta House to House Healthworkers Strike
35 workers from the Mexican government’s new preventative healthcare initiative struck after not receiving any wages for the entire month of June.
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Gringo with Apparent CIA ID and Weapons Arrested in Mexico State
A search of the gringo’s home revealed four pistols, two AR-15s; more than 100 rounds of ammunition, six magazines, and a knife.
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“Your Airbnb was my home!” Anti-Gentrification Protest in Mexico City
A large mobilization against social cleansing began in the heavily gentrified area of Roma Norte.
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Collective Warns About Shady Building in Puerto Escondido
The developer behind the project is GDC, considered to be part of the widely reviled real estate cartel in Mexico City.
