Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics.
Rob Gillies, Canadian officials blast Trump’s tariff threat, and one calls Mexico comparison an insult Los Angeles Times. In a banner week for Canadian diplomatic foot-shooting, Canadian politicians attempting to use anti-China sentiment to convince Trump to cut Mexico out of the USMCA ended up being threatened with 25% tariffs on Canadian exports by the USA’s President-elect. Mexican President Sheinbaum responded to the tariff threat with a stern open letter to Trump that resulted in an amicable phone call that appeared to settle the tariff issue favourably for Mexico. Mexico’s 4T: One, Vassal State of Canada: Zero.
Dulce Olvera y Montserrat Antúnez, Mal vecino, y peor socio Sin Embargo. Canadienses se llevan riqueza de México por casi nada. Y todavía regatean impuestos.
GM temporarily lays off 6,000 workers in Mexico due to strike Agence France-Presse. GM’s Mexican arm notified workers at the Silao assembly plant that they had been placed on indefinite, mandatory vacation and would receive 55 percent of their pay, according to an internal document obtained by AFP.
Antonio López Cruz y Enrique Gómez, Morena presenta reforma para reducir a 40 horas la jornada laboral El Universal. Mientras que afuera de la Cámara de Diputados, la activista María Luisa Luévano, se mantiene en huelga de hambre para exigir la aprobación de la reforma para reducir a 40 horas la jornada laboral, adentro el diputado de Morena, Manuel Vásquez Arellano presentó la misma iniciativa.
Diana Baptista, Mexican female gig workers push to fix “sexist” algorithms Context. Female delivery workers want deeper changes in the upcoming gig work labour reform to tackle what they see as entrenched sexism on online platforms. This includes modifying app algorithms to assign them smaller packages, ensure they are not sent into areas with high rates of gender-based crime, and a guarantee of equal pay.
Ulises Rodríguez López, Sheinbaum pone en su lugar a político de Canadá que minimizó a México Polemón. La Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo declaró que su gobierno no acepta el tipo de declaraciones que hizo Doug Ford, primer ministro de Ontario, Canadá, pues reiteró que México, Estados Unidos y Canadá deben de ser vistos como iguales.
David Bacon, Domestic Workers: A New Face of International Solidarity The Reality Check. In the US and Canada, rising activism has accompanied the increase of immigrant workers in the domestic worker labor force. This wave of migration was in part the product of the displacement of families and communities in Mexico under the impact of NAFTA, as it adopted neoliberal structural adjustment policies.
Alonso Urrutia y Alma Muñoz, Coordinación, no subordinación, con EU para enfrentar migración y tráfico de fentanilo: Sheinbaum La Jornada. Al referirse nuevamente a su conversación con Trump, Sheinbaum aseveró que no hay diferencia entre los planteamientos que se le hicieron a Trump en la carta con el contenido de la conversación telefónica.
David Mantey, General Dynamics Subsidiary to Pay $1.4 Million in Back Wages to Mexican Engineers Yahoo! Finance. An investigation by the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division found National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) used the L-1B visa program to bring the workers to San Diego from a General Dynamics subsidiary in Mexicali, Mexico, to install power plants, engines and machinery; complete structures and finish and furnish ships interiors.
Patricia Carrasco, Noroña en la CTM La Prensa. En la casa de la central obrera más grande del país dijo: “no pocas veces los sindicatos son culebras… se madrean a los trabajadores”… “Lo que se necesita es que sean un instrumento de defensa de la clase trabajadora”, citó.