CLICKS JUNE 22
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Judicial reform, Latin American integration, public sector driven energy transition, Clara Brugada’s utopias.
News Briefs
This Chicano is Inspired by Mexican Election
Bill Gallegos, a veteran Chicano liberation activist, environmental justice leader, and revolutionary socialist, has a lot to celebrate and anticipate.
Claudia Sheinbaum: Morena Comes of Age
An interview with Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete, coordinator of the Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior, on Claudia Sheinbaum & Morena’s victory.
LEFT RECKONING w/ MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth
What does Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic electoral victory mean for Mexico’s 4th Transformation and what lessons can the US left learn from it?
Weekly News Items June 17
The Mexican Right is defeated and the PRI bankrupt, Brugada to expand social housing, public banking success, mining strike, migration battle, state utility expansion, and new possibilities in the labor reform.
Working Class Poverty: A Historical Turn
Working poverty is an outrageous hardship, since it cannot be attributed to the lack of will of individuals to get ahead, but rather to the pettiness of employers or failed business models that do not allow jobs to be created in conditions of respect for human rights.
REAL NEWS NETWORK w/ MSM’s José Luis Granados Ceja
José Luis Granados Ceja debates Tamara Pearson on the meaning of AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum and the 4th Transformation.
SOBERANÍA 16 – Capitalist FREAK-OUT
International financial markets and their teareaders in the corporate press react to Sheinbaum’s intention to follow through on her mandate & pursue constitutional reforms.
The Challenges of Mexico’s Labor Reform
While the capitalists want to enforce borders that workers can’t cross, we are showing that yes, we can! Through communication, cooperation, and organization, working-class power can jump over borders.
Weekly News Items June 9
AMLO’s legacy, Claudia’s path forward, Supreme Court reforms, the death of the PRD, John Deere plants moving to Mexico, and the unceasing dubious punditry in Mexico and abroad.