PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 26
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on preventive healthcare, price controls, teachers issues, judicial election, remittances, and Veracruz election security.
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ACADEMICS ON HUNGER STRIKE, DEMAND MEXICO END RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL
The academics asked if Mexico wants to be known as a country which defends the free self-determination of all peoples, or if it will be among the cowards who dared not fight to build a better future for all.
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WTF IS GOING ON IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN?
The popular anti-imperialist podcast returns with Teri Mattson, Alina Duarte and Marco Castillo discussing the ongoing and forthcoming issues with the US-Mexico relationship.
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CLICKS MAY 25
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including judicial elections, teachers strike, murder of two Morena staffers in Mexico City, battle for union at GM plant, remittances and gringos buying up real estate.
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MEDIA CRIMINALIZATION
While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.
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THE LAW IS NOT THE SAME AS JUSTICE
An interview with Supreme Court candidate Federico Anaya Gallardo
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TEACHERS’ RESISTANCE
In the days of Porfirio Díaz, a soldier earned 90 pesos and a teacher barely 40: even today, such a disparity is clear, a new teacher earns 8,000 pesos and a new soldier 12,000.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 23
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on García Luna & Wife owing Mexico US$2.49 Billion, park concession expropriated, Calderón’s blathering, canceling meeting with striking teachers, remittances, energy reform, judicial elections, and the new telecommunications law.
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DESPAIR & NOSTALGIA
As the government’s social programs and security strategy produce results, organized crime groups must be feeling a potent (and dangerous) mixture of despair and nostalgia.
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CULTURAL EVENTS IN CDMX PARK RETURN TO PUBLIC CONTROL
The Parque Bicentenario concession, previously privatized by the Peña Nieto government, will return to public hands, with the Secretary of Culture and CDMX government ensuring there are no corporate events.
