Mexico’s Resigning Attorney General Allowed Fuel Theft to Run Rampant: Sentences Plummeted to Zero
Soon to be an ambassador, Alejandro Gertz Manero leaves, behind a Prosecutor’s Office incapable of fulfilling even its essential functions.
News Briefs
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A Century of Mexico’s Organ Grinders
For over a century, the barrel organ, weighing between 24 & 38 kilograms, has been part of the soundscape of a Mexico that revived after the revolutionary movement. Now, traditional organ grinders are protecting their sonic culture against counterfeit organilleros armed with MP3 players.
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Tribute to Guerrilla Lucio Cabañas, 51 Years After His Death
On December 2, 1974 the rural teacher, guerrilla & founder of Mexico’s Party of the Poor died during a confrontation with the Mexican military in a coffee-growing jungle of El Otatal.
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Mexico City Citizens Ask President Sheinbaum to Expropriate Water Well Granted to Televisa
Residents of Santa Ursula Coapa protested at Estadio Azteca against 2026 World Cup construction work & the privatized well which threatens public access to water.
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Bill Proposes Six More Vacation Days for Mexican Workers
This is the ninth initiative in the current legislature seeking to expand the list of holidays for workers in Mexico, one of the countries with the fewest mandatory days of rest.
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Rapid Response Labor Mechanism to Review Freixenet de México Union Busting
Workers accuse the highly profitable Spanish wine company in Querétaro of harassment, unfair dismissals, and refusal to recognize their union rights since 2023.
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A Mexican Steel Company Died… Workers Followed
Privatization, corporate looting, neglect & a bosses’ union destroyed Altos Hornos de México, stranding its workforce without pay & prospects; since its closure more than 70 workers have died, now survivors petition the Mexican government to make good on former President AMLO’s promise of social justice.
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AMLO Reappears
Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador re-appeared in a video promoting his new book, saying he would return to the streets for 3 reasons: to defend democracy, the President, & national sovereignty.
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CNTE Will Strike, Protest in 2026 so President Sheinbaum Keeps Promise to Repeal Calderón’s ISSSTE Law
The teachers union will mobilize to ensure the Mexican President honours her 2024 campaign promise.
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Clicks November 29
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including farmers strike, 40 hour work week, Indigenous femicide, migrant protections, US imperialism vs Mexico, Gen Z marches, & poverty reduction.
