CNTE: A Media Manual for Inciting Hatred
We have returned to the stage of prioritizing lies over a minimum exercise of truthfulness, wrote Jenaro Villamil in 2013. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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Mexico’s Host Cities for 2026 World Cup Will Suffer More Economic Losses Than Benefits
12 billion USD in infrastructure investment for an economic impact of 3 billion USD. Meanwhile an opaque agreement with FIFA means big tax breaks for FIFA & foreign corporations.
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AMLO Speaks, Los Angeles Times Leaks
The truth is that these kinds of leaks often serve to foreshadow government operations carried out by US intelligence agencies to test the waters, warn, and prepare the ground.
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Guerrero Teachers Injured in Mexico City Strike Repression Campaigned for Sheinbaum, AMLO
Proceso Columbo González González lost his eye from a rubber bullet reportedly fired by Mexico City riot police, while Octavio Romero was struck in the face with a metal rod.
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Former President AMLO: “The Trump of today is different from the one I dealt with”
Mexico’s former President has released a statement on US attacks on Mexico, only his second political statement since the end of his term, accusing US official of plotting to “weaken Morena.”
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People’s Mañanera June 2
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on healthcare funding, PEMEX exploration, the US Ambassador, and Vicente Fox’ re-appearance.
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Marches & Blockades by Thousands of Teachers in at Least 10 Mexican States
Teachers are demanding the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE and 1997 IMSS laws; as well as the repeal of Peña Nieto’s 2012 education reform and salary increases.
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The Left That Learned to Distribute, But Not Produce
Mexico faces a historical contradiction: it has a government that speaks as if it has broken with neoliberalism, yet it retains too many of the economic structures that neoliberalism left untouched. It has rhetoric of sovereignty, but financial dependence.
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The Return of Fox & Calderón Exposes Mexican Far Right’s Misguided Path
The Mexican right is going through a crisis, increasingly closer to international far-right sectors and further from a political proposal capable of competing.
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President Sheinbaum Calls on US Ambassador to Limit Himself to Bilateral Coordination & Collaboration
Ambassador Ronald Johnson is a former Green Beret and CIA agent.
