People’s Mañanera August 7
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on inflation, Mexico–Peru relations, Ayotzinapa, US relations, energy sovereignty, audience rights, and México Canta.
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Mexico’s Labor Secretariat Confirms US Company Newmont Violated Workers’ Rights at the Peñasquito Gold Mine
The miners’ union’s fifth USMCA rapid-response case forces Newmont into a neutrality letter and a binational remediation plan after three leaders were fired.
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Mexico and Peru Restore Diplomatic Relations
Peru granted safe conduct to former PM Betssy Chávez, who sheltered in Mexico’s embassy; Sheinbaum vowed to keep defending ousted President Pedro Castillo.
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Experts Rule Out ‘Fracking’ in Mexico’s Tampico-Misantla; Water-Well Drilling to Assess Two Basins Will Begin
A science panel urged banning unconventional gas in the Tampico-Misantla basin; two others stay under study only if deep saltwater, not fresh, is found.
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Mexico Requests to Meet with US Agriculture Authorities to Resume Avocado Exports
US inspectors were pulled from Michoacán over threats; Sheinbaum is sending more National Guard and pitching a work plan to restart avocado exports.
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People’s Mañanera August 6
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on energy sovereignty, water, audience rights, avocado exports, and infrastructure.
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Ex-Governor of Guerrero Ángel Aguirre Arrested; Accused of Hiding Evidence on the 43 of Ayotzinapa
Aguirre governed Guerrero when the 43 vanished in Iguala in 2014; he is the first former governor detained in the case under the FGR’s new probe.
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Exposing Mexican Media’s Bogus ‘Censorship’ Claims – Soberanía 118
Mexico’s new audience rights law exposes corporate media’s phony ‘censorship’ cry, the UNAM admissions exam melts down under a private contractor, and Brazil defies Washington in an escalating visa dispute.
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Mexico Will Not Answer for Salinas Pliego’s Debt: A Defeat for US Creditors
A World Bank tribunal unanimously tossed the US funds’ US$219M claim over TV Azteca’s bonds and ordered them to cover Mexico’s arbitration costs.
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Sheinbaum Reaffirms Invitation for Pope Leo XIV to Visit Mexico, in Meeting With Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Sheinbaum met Cardinal Parolin and tied her invitation to Pope Leo’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which she calls a global reference on who controls AI and where humanity is heading.
