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.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on infrastructure, security, corridos, USMCA, controversial CDMX Metro appointment, Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s suggestion to nationalize TV Azteca, Zedillo’s audit proposal, and debunking circulating lies.
The 40-hour workweek will be a reality in Mexico…eventually. Plus tarrifs, troops, Sheinbaum’s letter and a New Yorker smearjob.
The new head of Mexico City’s Metro (one of the most important transportation systems in the world and the recipient of a historic increase in funding this year of 23 billion MXN) has a dark history in previous right wing governments, with many unanswered questions about his administration of finances and connections to organized criminal groups.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on construction begins on 106k units of social housing, fraud lawsuits against housing developers, national sovereignty, Telecommunications Law, & premature campaigning restrictions.