Mexican Grains Crisis Persists: Farmers Threaten More Protests
Producers in the Bajío region report they have at least 1.5 million tons of corn unsold, while in Zacatecas, 80% of bean producers cannot sell their harvest.
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San Quintín: Exploitation of Agricultural Day Labourers Persists
Baja California day labourers arrive at ranches in the early morning and begin harvesting agricultural products on a piece-rate basis until they finish, without benefits or social security, in a completely illegal scheme.
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Mexican Farmers Will Stop World Cup
Campesinos, who shut down border crossings and major highways twice last year and face ruin due to the dumping of US crops, believe the government is sacrificing Mexican agriculture in order to secure a USMCA deal.
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People’s Mañanera January 19
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with the ever-frequent reading of the polls, raising revenue without raising taxes, Salinas Pliego tax debt comes due, US Hercules plane landing in Mexico, and Mexican dying in ICE custody.
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Our Water, In Whose Hands?
A promising vision from President Sheinbaum for public water management rapidly disappeared. Yet again the Mexican state openly assumes the role it has always played under neoliberalism: facilitating access to natural resources for special interests.
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38 Billion Pesos Withdrawn from AFORE Accounts Due to Unemployment
The large number of Mexicans withdrawing from their pensions to survive unemployment indicates an urgent necessity to establish national unemployment insurance.
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Plot of Complicity
Mexico’s consumer protection agency has not sanctioned a real estate company since 2020 & the consequences in Puebla, where real estate fraud runs rampant, are obvious and dire.
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Trump’s Pressure on Mexico & The Drugs Pretext
Agencies like the CIA are ready to “accompany” Mexican operations, but does Trump really want to combat drug trafficking, or is his intention to manage & manipulate Mexico?
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including a world without the USMCA or the death of Mexican agriculture, Indigenous rights, and the lingering threat of US military aggression against Mexico.
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University & Intervention
Our country cannot repeat the mistakes of the past, such as when Latin American unity was rejected or when it disregarded Cuban and Venezuela initiatives to connect with labor and educational forces, along with their proposals and warnings.
