Soberanía’s Top 10 Stories from Mexico in 2025: #5-1
US regional threats against Latin America, the judicial election, Gen Z Astro Turf March, poverty reduction efforts, & how Sheinbaum held off Trump’s aggressive policies.
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“Clueless” Morena Governments Signed Privatization Agreement: Marx Arriaga
“Just because the government or its leaders are from Morena doesn’t mean that all institutions have a progressive vision,” the Director General of Educational Materials commented.
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Tax Evasion Affects the Health Sector
It is ironic, not to say cynical, that major tax evaders talk about the shortcomings in health services in their media outlets when the lack of resources is due, above all, to the multiple forms of tax evasion they engage in, writes ISSSTE Director Martí Batres.
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People’s Mañanera December 30
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Interoceanic train derailment, organ transplants, hand-wringing on Venezuela and migrants will get official recognition during a 2026 press conference.
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China Accuses White House Advisor of Politicizing Trade by Encouraging Others to Mimic Mexico’s Anti-China Tariffs
The Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Chen Daojiang said the US is “deliberately exporting a failed model to Latin America.”
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Supreme Court Tax Rulings Concern Samsung & Maquiladoras
The companies, who profit heavily from the exploitation of Mexican labour, seek to maintain significant fiscal advantages at the expense of the Mexican treasury after years of evading export taxes.
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Education Dissident Marx Arriaga “remains the voice of the state, let’s not be fooled”: Specialists & Teachers
Critics point to the alternative teaching and learning model of the CNTE, which aims to bring students and the community closer together.
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Mexico’s Director General of Educational Materials Sounds Alarm About Creeping Education Privatization
Marx Arriaga Navarro made a Christmas call to form Committees for the Defense of the New Mexican School to defend public education against internal operatives and corporations.
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Mexico City’s Participatory Budget Will Increase to 2.3 Billion Pesos for 2026
The participatory budgeting model was first used in 2011 as a direct democracy mechanism, allowing residents to propose and vote on specific projects to improve their neighborhoods, towns, and districts.
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People’s Mañanera December 29
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, including comments on Interoceanic train derailment, Cananea strike, Sonora River clean-up, and formal employment numbers.
