PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 11
National handicrafts, judicial elections, US water treaty issue, Judicial branch trusts, missing persons meetings, Morena candidates rules, the 4t and national pride.
National handicrafts, judicial elections, US water treaty issue, Judicial branch trusts, missing persons meetings, Morena candidates rules, the 4t and national pride.
9th summit of CELAC, Procurement and Public Works Law, medicine purchases and anti-corruption fight, trade relation with the USA, judicial elections.
Trump’s tariff plan turned out worse than everyone expected but somehow Mexico has come out unscathed. While close friends and allies of Trump were hit with devastating tariffs, Mexico was spared thanks to President Claudia Sheinbaum’s negotiating and now the country is poised to take advantage of its comparative advantage in the refashioned world of global commerce.
Party and movement tension in Morena, assessing AMLO, nearshoring wave 2, Canada-Mexico relations, two journalists dead at Axe Ceremonia music festival, auto supply chains and two years on, still looking for accountability for the migrant center fire.
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.