Mexico often imagines its relationship with the US as a partnership based on economic interdependence, mutual respect, and strategic cooperation. This narrative is functional for diplomacy & reassuring for national elites, but it is false.
Only 14% of workers last year were able to access the full benefits of social security, while the union believes changes are insufficient to remedy the hundreds of thousands of workers in precarity.
At least 13 people were killed after an Interoceanic Train carrying 250 people derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Huerta Ladrón de Guevara & Chavira de la Rosa denounced Trump’s strategy of hatred against migrants and citizens of the world, and said they would assess what measures to take in response.
Despite the rhetoric of progressive left-wing governments and social programs, “none of them scratched the capitalist pyramid.”
A new phase in the reconstruction of Mexico would be more visible, credible, and truly inspiring if the prices of food and other goods were to decrease so that wage increases could have the necessary positive effect.
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Napoleón Gómez Urrutia said the union was very happy about ending the strike, which broke out in July 2007 due to serious failures in safety and hygiene, as well as labour violations by Grupo México.
Only 10% of drivers managed to reach the required income threshold to access the five insurances provided by the state.
The opposition’s missteps, the ambitious Plan Mexico, the influence of US actors in Mexico, mass Morena demonstrations, and Claudia Sheinbaum’s impactful first year in office.