Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including Canadian mining corporate union-busting, US imperialism, US expanding military zones on Mexican border, monehy laundering allegations, Ricardo Salinas and Russia offers LNG deal.
Congressional lawmakers had initially set the tax at 3.5 percent in May; lower than the 5 percent planned in the bill’s initial version.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on gas prices, reimbursement on reduced remittance tax, Campeche light rail, 700 years of Tenochtitlán, Mexican humanism, fuel theft, and Hugo López-Gatell WHO appointment.
4T administrations have opted for agendas replicating the crisis of progressive Latin American countries: prioritizing partisan hegemonies of agreement with right-wing parties; and encouraging the electoral mobilization of citizens as the only valid form of political participation.
Despite powerful forces aligned against them, community organizations can transform trade rules, defend territories, promote agroecology, seeds, and solidarity-based ways of life.
A study found Mexico’s ban on outsourcing increased workers wages and reduced precarity, despite ominous predictions from employers who resisted the reform.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on taking control of three banks accused by US of money laundering, re-opening Bicentennial Park, singing competition, Grupo Salinas’ tax debts, judicial elections, migrants in US, and the new intelligence law.
In a June 24th public letter titled A Home for the Orphaned Children of Gaza, the signatories requested the “valuable diplomatic and managerial intervention” of Mexico’s President to grant asylum to orphaned children in Gaza.
Representative Mariana Casillas seeks to curb real estate speculation and the impact of gentrification in Jalisco, using tax revenues to fund social housing and public programs.
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference with comments on US accusations against Mexican banks for money laundering, “wellbeing” hubs, and United Nations payments.