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.
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.
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters heralded President Claudia Sheinbaum for granting political asylum to Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Equality is not a concession or a favor, it is an act of justice. As long as women’s work remains invisible, there will be no economic justice.
90 years ago, the ILO defined the 40 hour workweek as an international standard. Mexico still has, in 2025, a 48 hour workweek, one of the longest in the world.