China Accuses White House Advisor of Politicizing Trade by Encouraging Others to Mimic Mexico’s Anti-China Tariffs
The Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Chen Daojiang said the US is “deliberately exporting a failed model to Latin America.”
News Briefs
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Supreme Court Tax Rulings Concern Samsung & Maquiladoras
The companies, who profit heavily from the exploitation of Mexican labour, seek to maintain significant fiscal advantages at the expense of the Mexican treasury after years of evading export taxes.
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Education Dissident Marx Arriaga “remains the voice of the state, let’s not be fooled”: Specialists & Teachers
Critics point to the alternative teaching and learning model of the CNTE, which aims to bring students and the community closer together.
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Mexico’s Director General of Educational Materials Sounds Alarm About Creeping Education Privatization
Marx Arriaga Navarro made a Christmas call to form Committees for the Defense of the New Mexican School to defend public education against internal operatives and corporations.
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Mexico City’s Participatory Budget Will Increase to 2.3 Billion Pesos for 2026
The participatory budgeting model was first used in 2011 as a direct democracy mechanism, allowing residents to propose and vote on specific projects to improve their neighborhoods, towns, and districts.
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Delivery Union Rejects Government’s App Worker Law Modifications
Only 14% of workers last year were able to access the full benefits of social security, while the union believes changes are insufficient to remedy the hundreds of thousands of workers in precarity.
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Presidents of Cuba & Venezuela Express Solidarity & Send Condolences After Train Derailment
At least 13 people were killed after an Interoceanic Train carrying 250 people derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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Morena Senators Call on Mexican Government to Protect Migrants from Bounty Hunters
Huerta Ladrón de Guevara & Chavira de la Rosa denounced Trump’s strategy of hatred against migrants and citizens of the world, and said they would assess what measures to take in response.
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Left’s Incompetence Caused Return of Right in Latin America, Warns Zapatista Gathering
Despite the rhetoric of progressive left-wing governments and social programs, “none of them scratched the capitalist pyramid.”
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Clicks December 28
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Trump’s threat, FIFA’s corruption, British opinions, Christmas toys, free books, the Latin American ultraright, Sheinbaum’s clothing, Trump’s military operations, and glyphosate’s future.
