MURDERS SHAKE MEXICO CITY
Ximena Josefina Guzmán Cuevas and Jesús Muñoz Vega, murdered Tuesday morning, were young officials with long careers, public servants in the left-wing Morena administration of Clara Brugada.
News Briefs
CIA & MEXICO SPIED ON CUBAN & SOVIET DIPLOMATS, LEFTISTS UNTIL 1994
Newly declassified documents also reveal extensive spying on former President Lázaro Cárdenas, muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and plots to infiltrate the goverment, youth groups and to cultivate leftist journalists in order to surveil Latin American political activity.
DAMMING THE IRON RIVER
A Saturday, May 25th webinar by the Democratic Socialists of America and Global Exchange will discuss a campaign to help interrupt flow of guns from US to Mexico.
STRIKING TEACHERS LIBERATE HIGHWAY TOLLBOOTHS
On the national strike’s fifth day, CNTE teachers opened toll-booths to drivers in San Marcos, Tepotzotlán, Tlalpan, Chiapas and Guerrero. They stated they are willing to engage in dialogue, but the government has not set a date.
MEXICO CITY: MARCH AGAINST GAZA GENOCIDE
Thousands marched from the Angel of Independence to Zócalo, through rain and hail, to support Palestinian liberation.
4TV INTERVIEW WITH MEIZHU LUI
Meizhu Lui, founder and co-coordinator of the México Solidarity Project, appeared on 4TV’s Al Mediodía to discuss the project,
CLICKS MAY 17
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including US threatens remittance tax, corrupt judge in Ayotzinapa case, cartel family escapes to US, CNTE strike, 40 hour work week, Morena’s cowardly approach to business interests, Mujica’s passing, and Parque Bicentenario events return to public control.
FIRST STRIKING TEACHERS ARRIVE AT ZÓCALO
The national strike is demanding the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE Law and neoliberal ex-president Peña Nieto’s education reform.
MEXICO CITY EXPROPRIATES PROPERTIES, PROPOSES NEW PUBLIC LAND BANK
While a proposed reform to end the plague of excessive Airbnb rentals remains stalled in Mexico City, in other areas related to social housing, advances are being made.
AN URGENT PLEA FOR SOLIDARITY
Jaime is a militant leader of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union, who had been organizing workers at an open-pit mine owned by Orla Mining of Vancouver, BC, Canada. His life and the lives of his family are being threatened.