Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including US threatens remittance tax, corrupt judge in Ayotzinapa case, cartel family escapes to US, CNTE strike, 40 hour work week, Morena’s cowardly approach to business interests, Mujica’s passing, and Parque Bicentenario events return to public control.
The national strike is demanding the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE Law and neoliberal ex-president Peña Nieto’s education reform.
While a proposed reform to end the plague of excessive Airbnb rentals remains stalled in Mexico City, in other areas related to social housing, advances are being made.
Jaime is a militant leader of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union, who had been organizing workers at an open-pit mine owned by Orla Mining of Vancouver, BC, Canada. His life and the lives of his family are being threatened.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on healthcare, pharmaceutical supply, publicly funded surgeries, combating screwworm infection, and the US withdrawing the visa of the Baja California Governor.
Mexico works on the basic premise that a more united Caribbean and Latin America is capable of articulating shared solutions and addressing different geopolitical scenarios.
The forum will adopt a three year plan, covering measures for collaboration in scientific and technological innovation, economic and trade investment, finance, infrastructure, agri-food, energy development, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including Communist Party of Cuba and Morena agreement, Taibo II talks TV nationalization, lawsuit against Google, Rubalcava and the Metro, Monreal family questions, USW in Mexico, Telecommunications law, no US troops, and Morena’s new ethical guidelines.
The Mexican government has released statistics showing an across-the-board reduction in crime, particularly high-impact crime, and attributed the results to the successful application of the Security Strategy, launched in October 2024.
What is promised in its rhetoric does not always coincide with the structural logic underlying Plan Mexico, which seeks to further integrate Mexico into a subordinate cog in the U.S. productive apparatus.