Our weekly roundup of Mexican political stories in the English and Spanish language press, including Canada-Mexico USMCA strategy, the unsolved Ayotzinapa disappearances, Gaza genocide, China-Mexico tariff spat, ICE murders, de-commodifying water, and corruption.
Parents of the Ayotzinapa students also demanded the Mexican military hand over documents pertaining to the case, asserting that “they will not deceive us against with a historical truth.”
Speaking to the victims’ families and survivors, the former Migration commissioner acknowledged that this tragedy was “unacceptable” and that “the victims’ human rights were violated.”
A Mexico City march drew over five thousand attendees, including 20 teacher training colleges, on the 11th anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students, demanding concrete results from the Mexican government.
Morena Deputy Napoleón Gómez Urrutia’s bill to double the annual bonus received by workers appears to be MIA for 2025, along with any reduction in the 48 hour workweek.
Of the 1.2 million gig workers added to the IMSS by the new reform, only 133,178 met the threshold required to access social insurance policies such as medical care, daycare, retirement savings & disability pensions.
Behind the abuses of Mexico’s privatized water system are corporations like Kimberly Clark, Banco Azteca, Coca Cola, GoldCorp, as well as political clans like the Monreals and even Mennonites.
A member of the Committee of ’68, warned that this could become “a political defeat for the 4T” against the right wing Cuauhtémoc government if the sculptures are not restored.
Mexico is currently awaiting a response that guarantees that the incidents will not go unpunished, and has requested the FBI investigate the death, which occurred during an ICE operation.
Staff from the Mexican embassies in Israel, Algeria, and Greece contacted the Mexicans, who confirmed they were safe.