AMLO’s “Grandeza”
The introduction to former President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s newest book, Grandeza.
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Bill Proposes Six More Vacation Days for Mexican Workers
This is the ninth initiative in the current legislature seeking to expand the list of holidays for workers in Mexico, one of the countries with the fewest mandatory days of rest.
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Rapid Response Labor Mechanism to Review Freixenet de México Union Busting
Workers accuse the highly profitable Spanish wine company in Querétaro of harassment, unfair dismissals, and refusal to recognize their union rights since 2023.
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A Mexican Steel Company Died… Workers Followed
Privatization, corporate looting, neglect & a bosses’ union destroyed Altos Hornos de México, stranding its workforce without pay & prospects; since its closure more than 70 workers have died, now survivors petition the Mexican government to make good on former President AMLO’s promise of social justice.
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AMLO Reappears
Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador re-appeared in a video promoting his new book, saying he would return to the streets for 3 reasons: to defend democracy, the President, & national sovereignty.
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CNTE Will Strike, Protest in 2026 so President Sheinbaum Keeps Promise to Repeal Calderón’s ISSSTE Law
The teachers union will mobilize to ensure the Mexican President honours her 2024 campaign promise.
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Trump: Sowing Tragedies
Just yesterday the American gangster reaffirmed how little he cares about controlling the flow of narcotics by announcing a full & complete pardon for drug trafficker & former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández.
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Clicks November 29
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including farmers strike, 40 hour work week, Indigenous femicide, migrant protections, US imperialism vs Mexico, Gen Z marches, & poverty reduction.
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Torre Mítikah left Xoco with Little Water, Classism & Aggression
The Mítikah luxury apartment & shopping complex consumes 12 percent of all the water received by the pre-Hispanic town, increasing water shortages by 1,750% between 2018 and 2022
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Mexican Supreme Court Reinstates 2% CDMX Tax on Digital Platforms
A 2022 injunction filed by the parasitic American corporation Uber & upheld by previous neoliberal Supreme Court justices ends up in the trash, where it belongs.
