Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on price controls, hiring of nurses, US withdrawing visa of Baja California governor, election security, new elevated trolleybus opening, Popemania, and public perception of the 4th Transformation.
The forum will adopt a three year plan, covering measures for collaboration in scientific and technological innovation, economic and trade investment, finance, infrastructure, agri-food, energy development, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including Communist Party of Cuba and Morena agreement, Taibo II talks TV nationalization, lawsuit against Google, Rubalcava and the Metro, Monreal family questions, USW in Mexico, Telecommunications law, no US troops, and Morena’s new ethical guidelines.
There is an urgent need for the Latin American left to reflect on which programs we can join forces on, how we articulate different experiences, and how to communicate with social sectors that are not yet politicized to build a common emancipatory horizon.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on corridos for peace, increase in support for film, repatriation of Mexican migrants, the new Pope, banks urged to reduce interest rates, housing corruption, and recognizing Mexico’s mothers.
The Mexican government has released statistics showing an across-the-board reduction in crime, particularly high-impact crime, and attributed the results to the successful application of the Security Strategy, launched in October 2024.
For Black America, Cinco de Mayo needs to be seen as a day to celebrate a war of resistance against a colonial power that was, de facto, allied with the Confederacy and a day to celebrate an abolitionist state which welcomed many of our ancestors and “blood.”
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on reduction in violence and crime, free medical consultations, security strategy results, Federal Police won’t return, Teuchitlán case, judicial elections, and freedom of expression.
What is promised in its rhetoric does not always coincide with the structural logic underlying Plan Mexico, which seeks to further integrate Mexico into a subordinate cog in the U.S. productive apparatus.
Filmmaker Anne Lewis speaks about her film “A Strike and an Uprising! (in Texas)” on a historic Texas strike and its leader Emma Tenayuca.