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.
News Briefs
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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.
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Workers Party Says No to Saúl Monreal as Zacatecas Governor Candidate
The PT will form a coalition with Morena & the Green Party, which would prevent Saúl Monreal, brother of the current Governor, from competing due to party regulations against nepotism,
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Resolves First Grupo Salinas Tax Lawsuit: 33 Billion Owing
The largest tax lawsuit was unanimously resolved against the group owned by ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego, which also controls millions of workers’ pensions.
