No Agreement: Government Denies Support to Sugarcane Growers, Postpones Response for 2 Weeks
The unsuccessful meeting arose after the government agreed to it to end a November 12th sugarcane grower blockade in Mexico City.
News Briefs
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Unions Across Mexico are Demanding Immediate Approval of the 40 Hour Workweek
Thousands of trade unionists gathered outside Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies to deliver the message that the union movement will not allow the reform to be diluted or for the business sector to impose conditions that limit its scope.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Grupo Salinas; Must Pay $67 Million Fine
The ruling comes a week after the Court definitively ratified seven other tax debts totaling more than 48 billion against ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s conglomerate.
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Sheinbaum: “We don’t want intervention from any foreign government; it’s not going to happen”
The Mexican President responded to comments made by the US President Donald Trump on Monday indicating he would be okay with launching airstrikes on Mexico.
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US President Trump Says Would Be “OK” with Airstriking Mexico
Donald Trump claimed without evidence that 25,000 lives are saved for every alleged drug-carrying boat the US has illegally destroyed in international waters.
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Behind the “Gen Z” March: 90 Million Pesos, Foreign Activists, Mexican Politicians & Businessmen
Familiar, aged faces from Mexico’s right wing opposition collaborated with the international right wing.
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Desperate Times
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” march, heavily publicized by the ultra-right wing & corporate media, featured the same old geriatric gentry, with the new addition of a violent shock group.
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Mexico’s Curiously Elderly Gen-Z March
More geriatric than Gen-Z, the violence at yesterday’s astro-turfed right wing march by a shock group marked another sad degeneration for Mexico’s feckless right wing opposition.
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Clicks November 15
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including declining possibility of anti-China tariffs, Salinas Pliego’s tax debt, unequal transfer, Cuauhtémoc’s death, artists vs ICE, casinos & money laundering, the unbearable Christopher Landau, 4T & public media, new Colosio suspect, and GM in San Luis Potosí.
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Marx at the Margins
Fourteen years later, Kevin Anderson’s seminal work is finally available in Spanish, essential reading in times of genocide & climate crisis, revealing a Marx more aligned with the questions of Global South struggle than his academic caricature.
