CLICKS AUGUST 19
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including Mexico respecfts Venezuelan sovereignty, the sad decline of Proceso magazine, USAID funding and US meddling in Mexican politics, and labor news.
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SOBERANÍA 22 – Paying Mexico’s Historic Debt
Mexico’s Morena-led government continues to push ahead to fulfill their mandate by approving a monumental and long overdue constitutional reform granting greater autonomy for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples,
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SOBERANÍA 21 – CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP
Morena’s moves to push forward progressive constitutional reforms on housing, the minimum wages, social programs and more.
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CLICKS AUGUST 5
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including AMLO sees no evidence of fraud in Venezuela, the diminishing fortunes of Mexico’s right wing opposition, Trump wants to strike “cartels”, minimum wage raises above inflation moves forward, US manufacturers continue rushing to Mexico, PEMEX workers win 5% wage hike, social housing for youth and elderly in CDMX.
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SOBERANÍA 20 – The Capture of El Mayo Zambada: Who Wins?
What’s behind the capture of El mayo Zambada, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug traffickers?
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SOBERANÍA 19 – ELECTORAL LAWFARE
The Mexican right wing attempt to steal Morena’s legislative supermajority through electoral lawfare, PAN confesses what we always knew wall along, and Tim Golden’s latest DEA sourced hit piece in ProPublica.
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Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left
Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.
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CLICKS JULY 22
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US unions decry Caterpillar move to Mexico, multipolar opportunities, agroecology, Trump & Mexico, ongoing revival of passenger rail, Mexican humanism, China & Mexican green energy cooperation, the curse of water privatization, Canadian mining crimes, corn dispute.
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Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike
An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.
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The Terrible Ignorance of Norma Piña
Much to the consternation of relics of the neoliberal order like Supreme Court President Norma Piña, more than 80% of Mexicans back a major change to the judiciary, blackened with a legacy of widespread accusations of corruption, questionable rulings and failing to deliver justice to victims.
