Domestic & Caregiving Work Exceeds Contribution to Mexico’s GDP of Manufacturing & Trade
INEGI estimated that the economic value of domestic and care work performed by the population aged 12 and over was approximately 8 trillion pesos.
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Flour Mills Pay $4 or $5 per Kilo for Corn & Sell Tortillas for $27
“We’re all worn out from working so hard, while you support businessmen who earn billions!,” exclaimed Salvador Ruiz, a farmer from Jalisco, to the Agriculture Secretariat’s delegate.
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Valentín Campa
Valentín Campa gave his life to the Communist Party, but he also gave it to the landless, the peasants, the workers; convinced our country would only be strengthened & belong to everyone when “we all went to sleep having eaten more or less the same thing.”
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Mexican Farmers Occupy US Border Crossing, Protesting Agricultural Policy
Campesinos are demanding the federal government craft a sovereign agricultural scheme & leave the speculative market of the Chicago Stock Exchange, which forces prices well below production value.
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Supreme Court Re-Opens Coca Cola Tax Debt
For decades, a neoliberal-captured Supreme Court allowed corporations to evade and defer massive tax debts to the Mexican state. Recent rulings suggest that era may be over.
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Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras, Arrives in Mexico
Honduras is currently experiencing what the Progressive International has called “a coordinated effort to distort, delegitimize, and ultimately interfere in the country’s sovereign democratic process.”
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Sheinbaum: 40 Hour Work Debate & Vote Delayed til February 2026
Delays and increased business demands have provoked some unions, who initially agreed with the 2030 timeline, to demand an immediate implementation of the 40 hour workweek.
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Financing Fascism: A Salinas Family Affair
Hugo Salinas Price, father of “Gen-Z” march puppeteer Ricardo Salinas Pliego, became an anti-left operator after the Cuban Revolution’s triumph, financing numerous fascist initiatives, one of them a shock group linked to the CIA.
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Campeche Corn Farmers Accuse Mexican Agriculture Secretariat of Breaking Promise to Buy Annual Production
Maseca, Minsa, Bachoco, Keken and Crio executives, who import corn from US, also failed to show up to the meeting despite promises from the government.
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Mexico Imported Record 40.7 Million Tons of Grain
Heavily subsidized corn from the US is flooding the market, destroying farmers’ livelihoods and leading to country-wide strikes & blockades as the government’s stated concern for food sovereignty is questioned.
