CNTE BLOCKS ROADS IN MEXICO CITY
“The average real salary of a teacher is between 14 and 15 thousand pesos per month ($725-$775USD), which is totally insufficient to support a family.”
CONTENT
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 22
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Mexico-US relationship, respect for national sovereignty, economic update, healthcare investment, demonstrations, and food sovereignty.
LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BARRICADES
An interview with Rafael Barajas Durán, El Fisgón, the cartoonist on political humour and political education.
THE TRUMP DOCTRINE
Given that Trump’s use of soft power has the threat of “hard power” behind it, Mexico should orient its foreign policy away from the unreliable US and look instead to the Global South.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 21
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on murder of Clara Brugada staff members, railway advances, CNTE dialogue, auto tarrifs reduced, dependency, and refuting circulating lies.
SOBERANÍA 59: THE CIA’S MAN IN MEXICO
Trump’s Green Beret/CIA ambassador has arrived to take up his post as US ambassador to Mexico. And his first day in the country was… interesting.
SHEINBAUM: DIALOGUE WITH CNTE IS PERMANENT
President Sheinbaum made the comments amid the striking teachers’ blockade of the National Palace prior to the morning press conference.
MURDERS SHAKE MEXICO CITY
Ximena Josefina Guzmán Cuevas and Jesús Muñoz Vega, murdered Tuesday morning, were young officials with long careers, public servants in the left-wing Morena administration of Clara Brugada.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 20
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on social causes of crime, reduction of truck robberies, national security report, casino regulation, corruption, US-Mexico relations, Buque Escuela Cuauhtémoc Ship Accident, and assassination of two CDMX officials.
CIA & MEXICO SPIED ON CUBAN & SOVIET DIPLOMATS, LEFTISTS UNTIL 1994
Newly declassified documents also reveal extensive spying on former President Lázaro Cárdenas, muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and plots to infiltrate the goverment, youth groups and to cultivate leftist journalists in order to surveil Latin American political activity.