A local television station reported that around 100 farmworkers were arrested in the raid prior to the protests, and that officers fired tear gas at the crowd during a subsequent clash with federal agents.
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on agriculture and fishing programs, public grocery stores, social food production, Chocolate de Bienestar, screwworm, US-Mexico relations, Texas flood support, and 182,000 public homes to be built in 2025.
The chocolate is sourced from small, peasant producers who cultivate the cocoa using agroforestry methods in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, and will be first made available at public Tiendas Bienestar.
Even after one revolution, and the two significant reforms of Cárdenas and of López Obrador, the struggle for water and land continues to divide the interests of peasant communities and the large monopolies who profit from them.
Gentrification proceeds through every day developments, causing prices ito skyrocket, and what was once a territory of urban resistance becomes a tourist showcase and, ultimately, a territory of expulsion.
The announcement follows long-standing criticism of Morena’s practice of recruiting dubious candidates from disgraced political parties above its own membership, criticism which grew louder from within Morena and the Fourth Transformation movement in the previous months
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on a new rail and public transportation agency, US Mexico relations, Fitch Ratings, Ricardo Salinas’ rampage, Vicente Fox, and gentrification.
Social predators like Diego Fernández, Salinas Pliego, and Germán Larrea, who arose in the neoliberal period but continue to prosper under the Fourth Transformation, point towards a pressing need: to decommodify large sectors of Mexican society.
$178 billion allocated to immigration enforcement in a disastrous budget that strips away social protections to shower benefits on the wealthy while ratcheting up the punitive state.
Pegasus, the israeli-spawned spyware that monitors Mexico, has made news again amid corruption allegations against former President Peña Nieto.