PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 27
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on obesity, public health, August launch of public pharmacies, screwworm, remittances battle, CNTE strike, and observers for the judicial elections.
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JOURNALISTS CONSIDER OBSTACLES TO MEXICO’S FIRST JUDICIAL ELECTIONS
Issues that look to hamper participation in the democratic procedure include a poorly managed and restricted campaign to promote the vote by the country’s electoral institute.
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ARE YOU WITH THE TEACHERS OR WITH THE BANKS?
Teachers’ pensions provide private banks massive profits in the form of commissions, they fund the investments the banks make in their own businesses, and the profits the banks make from usurious activity with other people’s money. What public benefits would there be if the system was de-privatized?
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MAGISTERIUM PLAINS RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
Mexican teachers face the enormous power of finance capital and a neoliberal retirement system, owned by major banks, the true right wing of this country, which the government refuses to touch with even a single tax.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 26
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on preventive healthcare, price controls, teachers issues, judicial election, remittances, and Veracruz election security.
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ACADEMICS ON HUNGER STRIKE, DEMAND MEXICO END RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL
The academics asked if Mexico wants to be known as a country which defends the free self-determination of all peoples, or if it will be among the cowards who dared not fight to build a better future for all.
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WTF IS GOING ON IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN?
The popular anti-imperialist podcast returns with Teri Mattson, Alina Duarte and Marco Castillo discussing the ongoing and forthcoming issues with the US-Mexico relationship.
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CLICKS MAY 25
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including judicial elections, teachers strike, murder of two Morena staffers in Mexico City, battle for union at GM plant, remittances and gringos buying up real estate.
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MEDIA CRIMINALIZATION
While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.
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THE LAW IS NOT THE SAME AS JUSTICE
An interview with Supreme Court candidate Federico Anaya Gallardo
