Don Porfirio’s Three Visits to Mexican Education
Over the course of a century, a vision of education as a means of containing Mexico’s progress through the Porfirian, conservative ideal of social order has prevailed.
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Soberanía 82: Mexico’s Sheinbaum Condemns US Bombings
Trump’s latest round of extrajudicial military assassinations hit the Pacific this time, off the Acapulco coast; North American trade organizations and a recent delinking conference in Mexico City.
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Corn Producers: Agreement with Government Only Partially Meets Demands
Producers did not agree to formalize the base price of 5,200 pesos offered by the government in this most recent national agricultural strike.
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President Sheinbaum Instructs CONAGUA to Halt Mining Waste Concessions
Mexico’s National Water Commission had attempted to reverse a 2023 decision former President AMLO had made expressly prohibiting mining companies disposing of highly toxic waste in waterways.
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US Ambassador Called to Mexican Foreign Ministry to Address Violent Attack on Alleged ‘Drug Boat’ in Eastern Pacific
President Sheinbaum called for the meeting this morning, “to review this situation,” stating the Mexican government does “not agree with how these attacks are taking place.”
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El Taller: Busting Myths of the Tren Maya with Étienne von Bertrab
Party two of an interview with the lecturer at University College London, about his new graphic-book Más allá: una historia del Tren Maya.
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People’s Mañanera October 28
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Durango dam construction, stipends for students, campaign against addictions, Grupo Elektra’s tax debts, ex-President Zedillo, and alleged attack against Harfuch.
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Grain Producers Reject Government Offer: “It doesn’t cover costs.”
Amigos por el Campo pointed out that Altagracia Gómez as president of one of Mexico’s corn monopolies & a key advisor to President Sheinbaum, might contribute to the government’s unwillingness to resolve the dispute.
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High School Teachers Demonstrate, Demand Salary Equalization
Outside Mexico’s National Palace, they called on the federal government to “not fall into the game of passing the buck”, for President Sheinbaum to listen & comply with their 2023 agreement or they would implement a national work stoppage.
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To Wage the Cultural Battle?
The still significant legacy of the Mexican Revolution has had a dampening effect on the growth of the extreme right, but meeting them as adversaries legitimizes them.
