Marx Arriaga Navarro made a Christmas call to form Committees for the Defense of the New Mexican School to defend public education against internal operatives and corporations.
The participatory budgeting model was first used in 2011 as a direct democracy mechanism, allowing residents to propose and vote on specific projects to improve their neighborhoods, towns, and districts.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, including comments on Interoceanic train derailment, Cananea strike, Sonora River clean-up, and formal employment numbers.
Mexico often imagines its relationship with the US as a partnership based on economic interdependence, mutual respect, and strategic cooperation. This narrative is functional for diplomacy & reassuring for national elites, but it is false.
Only 14% of workers last year were able to access the full benefits of social security, while the union believes changes are insufficient to remedy the hundreds of thousands of workers in precarity.
At least 13 people were killed after an Interoceanic Train carrying 250 people derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Huerta Ladrón de Guevara & Chavira de la Rosa denounced Trump’s strategy of hatred against migrants and citizens of the world, and said they would assess what measures to take in response.
Despite the rhetoric of progressive left-wing governments and social programs, “none of them scratched the capitalist pyramid.”
A new phase in the reconstruction of Mexico would be more visible, credible, and truly inspiring if the prices of food and other goods were to decrease so that wage increases could have the necessary positive effect.
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Trump’s threat, FIFA’s corruption, British opinions, Christmas toys, free books, the Latin American ultraright, Sheinbaum’s clothing, Trump’s military operations, and glyphosate’s future.