CNTE National Strike is Opportunity to Avoid World Cup Strike
Section 9’s General Secretary said a strike during the World Cup could be avoided by President Sheinbaum keeping her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law and meeting other demands.
News Briefs
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INEGI: Gross Fixed Investment Contracted 6.6%, Driven by Decline in Public Spending
Investment was affected mainly by the collapse of public construction, which contracted 28.9% annually in 2025; and of private investment in machinery and equipment, which fell 10.5%.
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Chapingo University Workers Demand Mexico’s Agricultural Secretariat Intervene to Guarantee Wages
Five salary levels are below Mexico’s legal minimum wage, such as janitors who make a daily wage of 254 pesos when the minimum is 315 & 2025 year-end bonuses have not been paid.
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Mexican Farmers to Mobilize for Food Sovereignty & Agricultural Model Transformation March 20th
Farmers will seek to prevent the transit of heavily subsidized grains imported from the US & denounced the concentration of the food market by a small number of transnational corporations.
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World Cup Construction at Estadio Azteca Causing Respiratory Problems say Residents
Doctors in the area estimate that up to 70% of their patients suffer from some ailment related to constant exposure to particulate matter & fumes emitted by heavy machinery.
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Mexico City Expected to Achieve Measles Herd Immunity by End of March
Mexico City’s Health Secretariat aims to vaccinate 2.04 million people.
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Farmers Demand Governor Monreal Open Promised Bean Collection Centers
Farmers have been waiting since October 2025 for the Morena administration to meet its commitment to purchase the bean harvest, which is now rotting, while middlemen profit from their desperation.
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Mexico’s Workers Party Proposes Wealth Tax
The socialist party, which has 49 representatives in the Chamber of Deputies, proposed a tax on Mexico’s rich, who pay exceedingly low tax rates, to fund poverty reduction, housing, public education and social programs.
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“Dignified wages are not concessions: they are constitutional rights” – Striking Cultural Workers Respond to Mexico’s Cultural Secretariat
2,000 workers have been paid below Mexico’s national minimum wage for over two years, violating the law.
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Mexico’s Coca Cola Judge
Judge Miguel Ávalos Cornejo sought to grant an injunction to Coca-Cola allowing them to continue selling in high schools and universities under the preposterous justification of protecting the mutlinational’s “right to work.”
