Clicks August 10
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics.
Maria Abi-Habib, Mexico’s President Says U.S. Forces Are Unwelcome in Her Country New York Times. The Mexican government thought it had turned a corner in cooperating with the Trump administration on combating the cartels, having launched an aggressive crackdown of its own.
Rubén Martín, Nueva amenaza de Trump Sin Embargo. Intervenir México sería una catástrofe que regresaría las relaciones entre ambos países cien años atrás
Luis F. Munguía, How Mexico Doubled the Minimum Wage Phenomenal World. With the radical shift in Mexico’s wage policy, these recent increases in the minimum wage—while translating into an average income growth of 25 percent in real terms and a significant decrease in poverty and inequality—have only begun to chip away at corporate power.
Canadá intenta salvar su relación con México tras desacuerdo con Trump La Jornada. El primer ministro Mark Carney está luchando por salvar la relación de su país con México, después de que se estropeó a fines del año pasado cuando funcionarios canadienses sugirieron que sería mejor que negociaran un acuerdo comercial solo con el gobierno de Donald Trump.
Caroline Tracey, The Mexicali Experimental Project: A Contemplative, Human-Scale Approach to Housing on the Border The Border Chronicle. In the 1970s, the Mexican state worked with an avant-garde architect to build unique homes for workers in Mexicali. Could this forgotten experiment hold answers for Mexico’s housing crisis today?
Elia Castillo Jiménez, Pablo Gómez, un histórico de la izquierda para empujar la reforma electoral y convencer al PT y al Verde El País. Un puñado de pesos pesados del oficialismo, todos cercanos a la presidenta, integran la comisión presidencial que se encargará de impulsar la propuesta de reforma electoral que se ha fijado la mandataria aprobar en su Administración.
Mexican legislators promote progressive integration of America Prensa Latina. The 2nd Pan-American Congress closed its doors in Mexico after three days of debates focused, among other issues, on the integration of progressive legislators of the continent.
Viri Ríos, ¿Por qué se redujo la desigualdad con Obrador? Milenio. Mientras que en 2018 los hogares del 1% más rico del país concentraban el 49% del ingreso, ahora solo tienen el 44%. Una reducción de 5 puntos porcentuales que ahora se distribuye entre hogares de ingresos medios y bajos.
Maya Averbuch, Mexico’s Sheinbaum Finds Unlikely Ally in Young Heir to Corn-Flour Fortune Bloomberg. Altagracia Gómez Sierra , from a family with a fortune built on the privatizations and Fobaproa bailout of the neoliberal period, reaches out to business for President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Georgina Saldierna y Enrique Méndez, Sin PT y Verde no habrá enmienda, admite Morena La Jornada. Un primer problema es convencer a todos en Morena, y luego a los partidos del Trabajo y el Verde Ecologista de México. Sin ellos, no hay reforma constitucional, subrayó Fernández Noroña.
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Workers Requested Support from Mexico’s Army & Navy to Face a Mining Company & Narco Alliance, Authorities Ignored Them
Workers at the Camino Rojo mine, owned by Canada’s Orla Mining, faced violence & threats from drug traffickers.
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The USMCA Review: Big Pharma, Glyphosate, & Secure Electronic Payments
Our main trading partner is pressuring the Mexican government in several economic areas, including digital payment services and intellectual property, seeking to gain ground for US companies.
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Unresolved Issues with Teachers
Until this crisis is addressed at its root, public education will remain the weakest link in a chain of inequalities that can no longer tolerate excuses. Mexico owes its teachers much more than applause in the Zócalo: it owes them justice.
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Reports of its Death May Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
BlackRock, fracking, public-private partnerships, the financial elites and Mexico’s inertia and budgetary shortcomings.
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Workers Party says Mexican Musicians Betrayed
The PT says “lobbyists for the mega-corporations kept circling [Mexico’s cultural] commission like vultures,” and its President fell into the trap of Universal Music, Sony, & Warner.
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History, Culture & Mental Health
Community-rooted and culturally responsive, Colorado’s El centro AMISTAD provides unique health, education and social services.
