Mexico reckons with Trump admin officials, Sheinbaum takes one for the team by meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the final stop of her cringe tour” through Latin America, the media attempt to play up China’s supposed pivot away from Mexico, and Mexico’s new Interoceanic Corridor linking the Atlantic and Pacific is now open.
Anti-Sheinbaum slander, the necessity of taxing Mexico’s rich, judicial elections, Morelos corruption, Venezuela thanks Mexico for support, teacher’s pension fight, US autoworkers vs Canadian and Mexican workers, the Mexican ultraright, Canadian autoworker union Unifor has no interest in unity with Mexican workers, and assassination of PT militant.
What’s behind the Trump administration’s denial of Mexico’s special request for water for Tijuana and what’s the future of the 1944 treaty governing water sharing along the border? Also migrant mistreatment at Florida’s Krome Detention Center in Miami & Sheinbaum accepts the credentials of the Palestinian ambassador.
Right-wing politicians in Mexico are working with Mexican oligarch Ricardo Salinas Pliego to build links with the far right, hosting meetings with representatives from Vox, the Atlas Network, and the Fundación Internacional para la Libertad.
Mexico vs Trump, feminist advances, Jalisco’s “extermination camp”, fifis vs chairos, US dumping plastic in Mexico, reducing the work week & more in our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico.
350,000 people filled Mexico City’s Zocalo to overflowing in a national unity rally to protest Trump’s tariff threats. Plus, recent consitutional reforms on nepotism, reelection measures and a ban on GMO corn, and marches for International Working Women’s Day.
Remarks by President Claudia Sheinbaum to hundreds of thousands at an anti-imperialist rally in Mexico City’s Zocalo.
American society’s destiny is in the hands of irrationality.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded swiftly to Trump’s tarrifs, labelling his decision as “offensive” and calling for supporters to demonstrate this Sunday in the name of national unity in the face of this attack.
PT in defense of Western Sahara in Congress, judicial corruption and extradition of narcos, energy sovereignty, tarrifs (again), USAID funding of ultraright wing opposition and sea change in labour union and left alignment & more in our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico.