A Raw Deal
Mining in Mexico has not led to economic development. Despite record wealth extraction, mining communities remain poor, and often poverty rates are far higher than the national average.
News Briefs
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Oxfam: Billionaires Contribute Only 21 Cents per 100 Pesos of Tax
As the tax burden in Mexico is still disproportionately on the working class, pensions and social spending are simply a form of recirculating the working class’ own money, as opposed to having the wealthy contribute a fair share for societal benefit.
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Working Poverty in Mexico Decreases in 2025
However, nearly one in three people still did not have sufficient income to cover the basic basket of goods.
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Mexican Agricultural Secretariat Receives 3,514 Applications for Corn Producer Subsidies
Mexican corn producers have been devastated by low prices resulting from the dumping of heavily subsidized corn from the US.
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Mexico Grants Official Protection to Pulque from Tlaxcala
The alcoholic beverage of pre-Hispanic origin is obtained from the heart of the maguey leaves and is made from the fermentation of the mucilage.
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Mexico City Government Claims Will Not Use Violence Against Migrants in Vallejo
César Cravioto says that of the 3,000 migrants who had been sleeping on the streets at the beginning of this administration, only 200 remain.
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Proposals, Not Protests, says Tereso Medina, New Leader of CTM
The new President of Mexico’s largest labour federation made a contradictory speech, on one hand declaring the end of corporatism, and the other disavowing protest and vowing to serve Mexico’s productive sector to an audience which included COPARMEX’ President.
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Corporatism’s Dead, Long Live Corporatism
Mexico’s historic labour unions are trying to re-align themselves with the Fourth Transformation while the PRI continues sinking.
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Strike at Tornel Rubber Plant: 1,051 Workers Walk
The union say the strike stems from systematic and repeated violations of their collective bargaining agreements and an unsuccessful application of the USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism.
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Pasta de Conchos: Industrial Homicide
Two decades since 65 miners lost their lives, families continue to demand justice. Not all the bodies have been recovered, nor has Grupo México been fully held accountable.
