Minimum Wage Dialogue Begins
While Mexico’s minimum wage has increased substantially in years, it has yet to reach the purchasing power it had in 1976.
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Mexican Farmers & Transporters End Blockades
The government has made a commitment to farmers to discuss excluding basic grains and oilseeds from the review of the USMCA.
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80% of Mexico’s Water is Stolen by Corporations & Politicians
The insatiable appropriation of water in Mexico is a systemic problem driven by politicians and large corporations—such as Coca-Cola, Lala, mining companies, and the tourism sector.
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Mexico’s Agricultural Crisis & Transnational Corporations
National agriculture is in crisis, and if the government does not respond, the food supply for Mexicans will be left in the hands of transnational corporations.
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Mexican Corn Corporations Manipulate Prices
In October 2024, Mexico’s anti-trust authority decried the situation as being an oligopoly, and singled out Maseca, Minsa, Gruma, Cargill as paying unfair prices for white corn while reaping extreme profits selling to tortilla shops.
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President Sheinbaum: Honduran President Castro Concerned About Foreign Interference in Elections
Recently leaked audio recordings reveal a conspiracy between right wing politicians and businessmen to falsify preliminary results in the November 30th election, to intiate a crisis to steal the election from left wing candidate Rixi Moncad.
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People’s Mañanera November 26
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on water law, Mexican supercomputer, visit with Honduran President Xiomara Castro, “Gen Z” march, and debatable claims.
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Mexico’s Consumer Protection Agency Shutters Actor Palazuelos’ Tulum Hotel & Other Traps Over Rip-Off Rates
The waning power of the Tuluminati is less likely to ensnare Mexican consumers in its morbid, macramé web of infantile regression & extortionate price tags.
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Dependency & Development
Mexico’s problem is that, despite an influx of foreign capital, the economy isn’t growing: corporations profit, but don’t stimulate domestic production because they rely heavily on imported components & transfer profits abroad.
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For a Comprehensive Agricultural Plan for Mexico
It’s essential the government develop a comprehensive plan for rural development that goes beyond combating poverty & marginalization & promotes a development policy that supports farmers.
