Mexico National Farmers Strike, Day 1
Driven by concerns over US crop dumping, monopoly profiteering, the decline of food sovereignty & insufficient state support, farmers have struck for the third in six months. Now transporters have joined.
News Briefs
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Ultra-right “Masculinity” Congress in Guadalajara
Promoted by government agencies in Jalisco, Guadalajara, and Zapopan and featuring a morbid roster of misogynists, reactionaries & former boy band singer; the expensive two day event has drawn criticism.
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Mexico’s National Farmers Strike Begins Today in 20 States
Organizers considered the government’s has no interest in resolving the agricultural crisis, and balked at the demand that they not hold any demonstrations during this year’s World Cup.
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Mexico’s Unpaid & Exploited Gas Station Attendants
Slave-like working conditions and numerous abuses persist; while the majority of workers lack employment contracts, wages, social security, and benefits.
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Mexico Imports Record Amount of Corn From US
Despite this multi-billion dollar business, the US Trade Representative continues to assert a series of non-tariff barriers prevent the free access of genetically modified corn to Mexican territory.
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Camino Rojo union busting, Mexican lithium, sex workers & the World Cup, ICE deaths, national farmers strike, and mining sacrifice zones.
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President Sheinbaum: Unlikely the Right Wing Will Return to Power in Mexico
The Mexican President indicated that the financial outlook is positive for the country, which demonstrates the viability of its economic model.
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EZLN: The Nation-state No Longer Has Decision Making Power
“Sovereignty is a bad joke. They can’t say that Mexico is sovereign, even if they say so on the Mañanera, if it can’t even decide whether to send oil to Cuba.”
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Social Programs Will Cushion Impact of Global Chaos in 2026: Mexico’s Finance Secretary
By 2026, social program spending will reach nearly one trillion pesos, with the goal of sustaining the well-being of the majority of families.
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Six Months of the Nacional Monte de Piedad Strike
While acknowledging that it has been difficult, trade unionist Miguel Ángel Pérez Ramírez affirmed that workers remain committed to fighting to defend & uphold their labour rights.
