GOVERNMENT TO RECOVER 600,000 ABANDONED HOMES
Built mainly during the Fox and Calderón administrations, they were built for private profit with public money, and didn’t meet the needs of workers: with no services, nowhere near urban centers.
News Briefs
PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM’S LETTER TO MORENA LEADERSHIP & MILITANTS
“Some modest suggestions to the Morena leadership, for the good of our country, our people, and our Movement.”
CLICKS MAY 3
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including GMO corn ban, 40 hour workweek, Trump tarrifs and labor, Ernesto Zedillo returns, Las Solderas, Trump proposes US military action, CIA operative rapist, Mexicans relieved AMLO moved Spanish private energy corps from market.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 2
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on US-Mexico trade relations, Unilever investment, economic strength, culture and books, human rights, resisting privatization.
MAY DAY: SHEINBAUM ANNOUNCES TRANSITION TO 40 HOUR WORKWEEK
Unfortunately, the transition time is five years.
MAY DAY: AUTOWORKERS DIVIDED BY TARRIFS?
This May Day, when workers around the world rise to demand rights, respect and their just share of the wealth, autoworker solidarity is on the line.
MAY DAY: PARTIDO POPULAR SOCIALISTA DE MÉXICO
International Workers Day statement from the Popular Socialist Party of Mexico.
CAN CANADA & MEXICO TEAM UP AGAINST TRUMP?
José Luis Granados Ceja appeared on Canadian television program TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss the potentials for Mexico-Canada cooperation after Canada’s recent election.
PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 30
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on new water projects and water theft, new child care centers for children of workers, US-Mexico trade relations, economic growth, Izaguirre Ranch case, Children’s Day stipends for public school students, and debunking rumours.
MAY DAY: WORKING HOURS REDUCTION: UNION DEMAND
Reducing the workweek, pension reform, and eliminating taxes on benefits are some of the main demands that unions will raise during the International Workers Day march.