People’s Mañanera October 21
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on universal breast cancer care model, surgeries, illegal sales of public medicines and PAN relaunch.
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National Institute of Migration Dissolves Migrant Caravan in Oaxaca; Arrives in CDMX with Visas
The exodus left Mexico’s southern border after reporting that their asylum applications took months, even more than a year, and that they didn’t have the necessary resources to wait.
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National Institute of Indigenous Peoples & Afro-Mexican Communities Agree on Comprehensive, Just Development Path
The plan will begin to fulfill Mexico’s Constitutional mandate to guarantee the effective exercise of the rights of Afro-Mexican peoples.
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Martí Batres & ISSSTE’s Transformation
The agency, which provides social security and health for Mexican public workers, is leaving behind the privatization and commercial logic that has plagued it for decades; building a dignified, efficient, & profoundly social institution.
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CONAGUA Wants Mining Industry to be Allowed to Dump Toxic Waste into Rivers
Mexico’s National Water Commission is pushing for the mining industry to be allowed to dump toxic waste into rivers, despite President Sheinbaum’s stated environmental objective to clean up contaminated tributaries.
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Mexican Import of White Corn, Used for Dough & Tortillas, Quadruples
2025 will close with record levels of imports, with most of the grain coming from the US, along with genetically modified yellow corn.
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People’s Mañanera October 20
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on remittances, flooding and rain recovery, relaunch of the right wing PAN party, and FONDEN corruption.
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USMCA is “dead, it no longer exists.”
UNAM’s Enrique Dussel Peters warned that it will be replaced by an American tactic of bilateral blackmail & that if Mexico unilaterally imposes tariffs on China, Mexico “is heading towards a dead end”
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Mexico Goverment Will Provide Aid to Families Affected by Flooding
Starting Wednesday, a distribution of 20 thousand pesos will begin to families registered by the Secretariat of Wellbeing in the five affected states.
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Coke Adds Life?
Without political will, without a radical prioritization of public health over corporate interests, Mexico will not emerge from the epidemiological emergency it is experiencing due to obesity and diabetes, deeply linked to soft drink consumption.
