Experts Warn About Excessive Overtime with Reduced Working Hours
The increase in permitted overtime hours may be seen by companies as a permanent remedy to compensate for the reduction to a 40-hour workweek.
News Briefs
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How a Group of Mothers Created Mexico City’s Roundabout of Women Who Fight
The anti-monument, created as a symbol of the resilience of thousands of women with missing relatives and to remember victims of femicide, replaced a statue of Christopher Columbus in 2021.
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UNAM Altar Honours Iranian Schoolgirls Murdered by US Imperialism
Attacks on schools during conflict is one of the six grave violations identified and condemned by the UN Security Council.
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Cine Mujer Collective Celebrates Sisterhood as Resistance in ‘Rebeladas’ Documentary
In the late 1970s, amidst a patriarchal society, the Cine Mujer Collective emerged, feminist filmmakers who found in cinema the ideal political tool to denounce gender problems that defined Mexican society at the time.
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Mexico’s Environmental Agency Shuts Down 6 Real Estate Developments in Cabo Pulmo
Cabo Pulmo in Baja California Sur enjoys the highest level of environmental protection in Mexico, as it is a national park.
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Soda Sell-outs: Organizations Decry Mexican Government’s Coca Cola Promotion
150,000 new cases of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Mexico result from Coca Cola consumption annually. Does the US corporation need free advertising from the President, too?
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Mexico’s Food Self-Sufficiency Declines
Agro-Industrial crops are grown for export while heavily subsidized imports from the US destroy corn and basic grain production. Has the government decided to sacrifice Mexican agriculture to save free trade?
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Employer Fines For Violating Workweek Limits Between 30,000 to 586,000 Pesos
Mexico’s Secretariat of Labour & Social Welfare will determine the fine based on a variety of criteria, but a dearth of labour inspectors across the country may hamper workers ability to obtain justice.
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CNTE National Strike is Opportunity to Avoid World Cup Strike
Section 9’s General Secretary said a strike during the World Cup could be avoided by President Sheinbaum keeping her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law and meeting other demands.
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INEGI: Gross Fixed Investment Contracted 6.6%, Driven by Decline in Public Spending
Investment was affected mainly by the collapse of public construction, which contracted 28.9% annually in 2025; and of private investment in machinery and equipment, which fell 10.5%.
