PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA JUNE 6
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on remittances tax, mobilizing Mexicans in US, US agencies in Mexico, SEMARNAT, Ayotzinapa judge arrested, teachers strike, and the judicial election.
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MEXICO’S MOMENTOUS JUDICIAL ELECTION
In Mexico, Morena-led reforms and the recent judicial election are a crucial step to overhauling a judiciary long plagued by corruption and nepotism, says Kurt Hackbarth on this apperance on Breakthrough News.
CETEG TEACHERS REDECORATE SNTE HQ
Striking teachers burned photographs of controversial union leader Alfonso Cepeda Salas, head of SNTE, who was last year appointed a plurinominal Senator by the Morena government, which is negotiating with striking teachers.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA JUNE 5
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on plastic, beaches, justice for the ABC daycare victims, Telecommunications reform, Sonora River pollution, and the acquital of Abarca in Ayotzinapa case.
THE JUDICIAL ELECTION’S UNEVEN MEDIA COVERAGE
Why did Mexican corporate media dismiss this election? Did they already sense a low turnout? Or did they want to dismiss and silence an uncharted voting process?
SIMULATED SOVEREIGNTY: NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE VS IMPORTED PRESTIGE
Epistemic colonialism disguised as critical modernity: a persistent intellectual subordination conditions public policy formulation in Mexico.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA JUNE 4
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on new highways, judicial elections, steel and aluminum tarrifs, and the CNTE strike.
A NEW DEMOCRACY
As former Mexican Congressperson Alejandro Robles tells us, for far too long, judges at every level ruled for the rich and against the poor. That started to change in Mexico on June 1st when Mexicans began electing their entire judiciary.
CUT & RUN GARMENTS
Trade unionist Jeffrey Hermanson says that conditions in the maquiladoras that flooded Mexico since NAFTA have somewhat improved, but in this “new” USMCA period, multinational corporations still receive favorable treatment from the government to continue their exploitation of workers and land.
MEXICO’S CORPORATE MEDIA
Kurt Hackbarth talks to Latino Media Collective about the Mexican corporate media structure and proposed telecommunications reforms.