Clicks February 21
Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Mexico City’s Trolleybus Workers Could Bring the City to a Grinding Halt Labor Notes. Their union is one of Mexico’s oldest democratic unions. The 2,700 workers are fighting for raises, job security language, and more hires and training in order to expand and maintain Mexico City’s electric transport infrastructure.
Alejandro Calvillo, La Copa de la Diabeti-Cola Sin Embargo. La Copa Mundial comenzará a recorrer el territorio con la marca de Coca-Cola al frente para generar la idea de que fútbol es Coca-Cola.
Labeling with a taste of Coca Cola Poplab. “I am a consumer of their products, a daily consumer; I can tell you that the President drinks Coca Cola every day”. These were Enrique Peña Nieto’s words in 2016, just two months before the Secretary of Health declared a national emergency over the widespread occurrence of obesity and diabetes
Etiquetado con sabor a Coca Cola Poplab. “Yo soy un consumidor de sus productos, un consumidor cotidiano; les puedo decir que el presidente de la República toma Coca Cola todos los días”. Estas fueron las palabras de Enrique Peña Nieto, dos meses antes de que la Secretaría de Salud emitiera, en 2016, una declaratoria de emergencia nacional por obesidad y diabetes.
Emir Olivares Alonso, Mexico City: Collection Center in the Zócalo Has Gathered 6 Tons of Food for Cuba Resumen Latinoamericano English. The collection demonstrated the solidarity of Mexicans with the island, which has been besieged by the recent oil embargo decreed by the US president.
Darío Brooks, Por qué los mexicanos trabajan tantas horas (y por qué es difícil que cambie con la reducción de la jornada) BBC News Mundo. Si no existe una contabilidad precisa de horas de trabajo, como recomienda la OCDE, quedará a discreción de los empleadores la repartición de las cargas de trabajo.
Amy Stillman, Visa’s Takeover of Prosa Rejected by Mexico’s Antitrust Watchdog Bloomberg. The CNA said in a statement Friday that the solutions proposed by Visa and Prosa “were not suitable or sufficient to avoid the risk to markets and consumers detected by the commission.”
Viri Ríos, Qué significa ser soberano Milenio. Hay dos ámbitos en los que los intereses de México y Estados Unidos discrepan de manera fundamental.
Gaby Cepeda, Art in the Age of Claudia Sheinbaum North South Notes. A bit of Dubious characterizations of the Gen-Z protests but the essay maps some of the substantive anxiety around Mexico’s cultural industries and the state’s retreat from support.
Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga, Derecho a la vivienda y al patrimonio cultural La Jornada. No podemos permitir que groseras, especulativas y destructivas empresas inmobiliarias y descastadas fundaciones que han perdido rumbo y su misión original, avancen en la destrucción de la ciudad Déco y su patrimonio cultural.
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Sheinbaum Says the 152 Hospital Projects Planned for the Six-Year Term Advance, with an Investment of 181 Billion Pesos
Of the 152 projects, 50 are brand-new hospitals; the plan adds 13,300 census beds by 2030, more than triple the neoliberal era’s 4,300.
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Colossal Archaeological Exhibition of Mesoamerica Amazes in China
Nearly 3,000 pre-Hispanic relics, 804 of them from Mexico, fill the Shanghai Museum in Asia’s largest such show since 2001, drawing 10,000 visitors a day.
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FDA Corrects Itself: Mexican Lettuce Did Not Cause ‘Explosive Diarrhea’ Outbreak; It Was a ‘False Positive’
The FDA apologized to Taylor Farms after wrongly blaming Guanajuato-grown lettuce supplied to Taco Bell for an outbreak; no positive samples were confirmed.
