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.
Author: Mexico Solidarity
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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.
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The Fight for Water & Land
Even after one revolution, and the two significant reforms of Cárdenas and of López Obrador, the struggle for water and land continues to divide the interests of peasant communities and the large monopolies who profit from them.
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This House is not a Hotel
Gentrification proceeds through every day developments, causing prices ito skyrocket, and what was once a territory of urban resistance becomes a tourist showcase and, ultimately, a territory of expulsion.
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Morena to Establish Admissions Committee
The announcement follows long-standing criticism of Morena’s practice of recruiting dubious candidates from disgraced political parties above its own membership, criticism which grew louder from within Morena and the Fourth Transformation movement in the previous months
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People’s Mañanera July 9
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on a new rail and public transportation agency, US Mexico relations, Fitch Ratings, Ricardo Salinas’ rampage, Vicente Fox, and gentrification.
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Solidarity, Greed & the State
Social predators like Diego Fernández, Salinas Pliego, and Germán Larrea, who arose in the neoliberal period but continue to prosper under the Fourth Transformation, point towards a pressing need: to decommodify large sectors of Mexican society.
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Soberanía 66: Trump Budget Declares War on Migrants
$178 billion allocated to immigration enforcement in a disastrous budget that strips away social protections to shower benefits on the wealthy while ratcheting up the punitive state.
