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.
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People’s Republic of China Announces 2026 Full Scholarship Program for Mexican Citizens
Benefits include tuition and fees, a monthly stipend, accommodation in university residences or an equivalent allowance, and health insurance.
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President Sheinbaum’s Address on the 115th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution
Remarks delivered by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in the Zócalo: the Plaza de la Constitución in Mexico City.
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From Geriatric to Ghosted: Mexico’s Second Gen-Z March Fizzles
Tens of protestors, outnumbered two to one by journalists and street vendors, gathered for a dismal march in Mexico City. A planned mobilization at UNAM, where hundreds of thousands of Gen-Z members attend school, drew precisely zero protestors.
