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.
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.
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,
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.
The CNTE teachers’ union leadership pointed out that the federal government “has only offered delaying tactics; its statements are far from the reality experienced by thousands of teachers throughout the country.”
The Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office is governed by vapid, anti-communist right wing PRI Alessandra Rojo de la Vega. In 2014, the PRI was caught running a prostitution network in the same borough.
Both websites are part of an investigation by Mexican tax authorities regarding casinos allegedly being used to launder money from criminal activities.
The announcement comes as Mexico appears to be stalling on anti-China EV tariffs, widely regarded as resulting from US pressure, and following a number of plant closures from American & European auto producers.
After 30 hours of protest, the sugarcane farmers lifted their blockade in Mexico City, signing a document that did not include their request for a 300 pesos per ton subsidy.
Former PRI Governors Ney González and Roberto Sandoval stole 9 million square meters of coastline.