Sheinbaum: 40 Hour Work Debate & Vote Delayed til February 2026
Delays and increased business demands have provoked some unions, who initially agreed with the 2030 timeline, to demand an immediate implementation of the 40 hour workweek.
News Briefs
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Campeche Corn Farmers Accuse Mexican Agriculture Secretariat of Breaking Promise to Buy Annual Production
Maseca, Minsa, Bachoco, Keken and Crio executives, who import corn from US, also failed to show up to the meeting despite promises from the government.
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Mexico Imported Record 40.7 Million Tons of Grain
Heavily subsidized corn from the US is flooding the market, destroying farmers’ livelihoods and leading to country-wide strikes & blockades as the government’s stated concern for food sovereignty is questioned.
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After 200 Day Student Strike, Mexico State University’s Rector Building Returned to Become Cultural Center
The student movement had been holding the property since May.
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Clicks November 22
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including Gen-Z marches and the ultra right wing, Tijuana deportees, US-Mexico wage gap, exploitation in the auto industry, Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Uruapan mayor and Peru and Mexico diplomatic spat.
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Evidence Cuauhtémoc Borough Finances Violent Shock Groups: Morena
Beleaguered ultra-right winger Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, head of a Cuauhtémoc borough in financial crisis and awash with complaints about unmaintained streets, public spaces and extortion, is accused of financing violent shock groups.
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Unions Want 30% Minimum Wage Increase in 2026
The raise would finally bring the purchasing power of the minimum wage up to the level it had 50 years ago in 1976, as workers have experienced decades of neoliberalism and superexploitation by foreign capital.
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Facts & Fiction of the Mexico City Protests
Drop Site’s Ryan Grim speaks with José Luis Granados Ceja about the movement behind Mexico’s recent self-declared “Gen Z” protest and what’s driving the mobilization.
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Mexico City Will Expropriate 400 Buildings to Build Social Housing
The expropriations are part of the city government’s committment to guarantee the right to decent, affordable housing for the lowest-income population.
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El Poder del Consumidor Demands Suspension of Coca Cola Christmas Caravans
Coco Cola propaganda parades are held in different cities across Mexico, representing one of the most persuasive advertising strategies aimed at children by appropriating powerful symbols and cultural values that they associate with a product that has a serious impact on the population’s health.
