Sheinbaum: 40 Hour Work Debate & Vote Delayed til February 2026
Delays and increased business demands have provoked some unions, who initially agreed with the 2030 timeline, to demand an immediate implementation of the 40 hour workweek.
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Financing Fascism: A Salinas Family Affair
Hugo Salinas Price, father of “Gen-Z” march puppeteer Ricardo Salinas Pliego, became an anti-left operator after the Cuban Revolution’s triumph, financing numerous fascist initiatives, one of them a shock group linked to the CIA.
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Campeche Corn Farmers Accuse Mexican Agriculture Secretariat of Breaking Promise to Buy Annual Production
Maseca, Minsa, Bachoco, Keken and Crio executives, who import corn from US, also failed to show up to the meeting despite promises from the government.
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Mexico Imported Record 40.7 Million Tons of Grain
Heavily subsidized corn from the US is flooding the market, destroying farmers’ livelihoods and leading to country-wide strikes & blockades as the government’s stated concern for food sovereignty is questioned.
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After 200 Day Student Strike, Mexico State University’s Rector Building Returned to Become Cultural Center
The student movement had been holding the property since May.
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Clicks November 22
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including Gen-Z marches and the ultra right wing, Tijuana deportees, US-Mexico wage gap, exploitation in the auto industry, Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Uruapan mayor and Peru and Mexico diplomatic spat.
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Evidence Cuauhtémoc Borough Finances Violent Shock Groups: Morena
Beleaguered ultra-right winger Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, head of a Cuauhtémoc borough in financial crisis and awash with complaints about unmaintained streets, public spaces and extortion, is accused of financing violent shock groups.
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Unions Want 30% Minimum Wage Increase in 2026
The raise would finally bring the purchasing power of the minimum wage up to the level it had 50 years ago in 1976, as workers have experienced decades of neoliberalism and superexploitation by foreign capital.
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People’s Mañanera November 21
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on free online courses, the economic model, Tabasco cacao, PEMEX, CFE, the Gen-Z march, guardianship of three banks, and women in the Armed Forces.
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Facts & Fiction of the Mexico City Protests
Drop Site’s Ryan Grim speaks with José Luis Granados Ceja about the movement behind Mexico’s recent self-declared “Gen Z” protest and what’s driving the mobilization.
