INEHRM: Spain’s Allusion to Pain Caused by Colonization “would be better if it were bigger & more explicit”
Finally, a Spanish official “dared to make that public acknowledgment,” said Felipe Ávila of Mexico’s National Historical Institute.
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Mexico’s Ban on Outsourcing Revealed Massive Profit-Sharing Evasion
For years, corporations in Mexico used outsourcing to evade financial obligations to workers, pocketing tens of billions, until a 2021 outsourcing ban closed their lucrative, exploitative loophole.
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Clicks November 8
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including Mexico City’s Utopias, Guanajuato corruption, Peru vs Mexico, anti-eviction reform, national farmers strike, fraudulent assassination plot against israel ambassador, and violence in Michoacán.
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Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture Favours US Producers Over Mexican Producers
The Mexican government’s response to the just demands of corn producers reveals that for all its rhetoric about food sovereignty, it remains committed to neoliberal agricultural policies that devastated Mexican agriculture.
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Mexican Senate Backs Sheinbaum in Diplomatic Conflict with Peru; Rogers Waters Celebrates Chávez Asylum
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters heralded President Claudia Sheinbaum for granting political asylum to Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez.
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People’s Mañanera November 7
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Macron meeting, Saltillo–Nuevo Laredo Railway, Zócalo festival, flood relief, social security for gig workers, and soda tax and cooperatives.
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Michoacán’s Wealth Attracted Cartels, Big Bosses & Hitmen Like Honey
The distinction between self-defense groups and organized crime grew murky during the bloody, violent period of Enrique Peña Nieto, as the state collaborated with paramilitary gangs.
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Our Enormous Debt to Armand Mattelart
The author of How to Read Donald Duck taught us that the global communication system is neither neutral nor spontaneous, but rather the result of a history of capitalist accumulation, of material organization of symbolic flows in the service of domination.
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People’s Mañanera November 6
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on actions against sexual abuse, healthcare spending, corn prices, flight reductions to US, Buen Fin, free education portal, US interference in Mexico and Mexico-France meeting.
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Normalistas: The “Gen Z March” is Being Promoted by the Right Wing
Students from rural teachers colleges demanded a meeting with the Secretary of the Interior to address violence against them, but rejected the Gen Z march in Mexico City on November 15th as a plot deriving from right wing hatred.
