Clicks July 20
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics.
David Bacon, Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid? The Nation. With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold.
Ricardo Pérez Trejo, El Fisgón: ‘Lo que Alessandra Rojo no podrá borrar es que la Revolución Cubana se concibió en México’ Diario Red. La decisión de la alcaldesa de Cuauhtémoc de retirar un monumento de Fidel y El Che de una plaza en la Ciudad de México desató un intenso debate en México. Para Rafael Barajas, El Fisgón, se trata de una medida desesperada de la derecha en medio de la batalla ideológica y cultural por la ciudad.
Diego Stacey, Colombia hosts first Hague Group summit to finalize action against Israel’s Gaza offensive El País. Mexico participated as an observer, but did not join twelve countries in implementing measures to prevent the genocide of the Palestinians.
Otro frente de Trump contra gobierno de Sheinbaum: ataque a la aviación Resumen Latinoamericano. El gobierno del presidente estadunidense Donald Trump anunció ayer una serie de medidas contra México por la decisión del gobierno mexicano de rescindir algunas franjas horarias de vuelo para las aerolíneas de Estados Unidos y obligar, en 2023, a las de carga a reubicar sus operaciones de la Ciudad de México al AIFA.
Mexico City plans to tackle gentrification after protests against mass tourism ABC News. Head of government Clara Brugada and Mexico City officials have unveiled a preliminary plan to tackle gentrification
Andrea Becerril y Fernando Camacho, Pugnas y polémica rodean el Consejo Nacional de Morena La Jornada. Hay expectación por la posible presencia de Adán Augusto López Hernández, en la octava sesión extraordinaria del Consejo Nacional de Morena.
Outra Saude, Mexico raises the flag for health sovereignty People’s Dispatch. Mexico launches a national plan to expand domestic drug production and move toward a free, universal, and public healthcare system.
Brasil refuerza alianza con México para exportación de alimentos Revista Cultivar. Ampliación del Pacífico contribuye a fortalecer flujo comercial entre ambos países.
The US Must Respect the USMCA, Mexico and Canada Stress Telesur English. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Goldman Sachs banker, has used the trade crisis to push through an austerity agenda combining tax cuts for the rich, the deepest public spending cuts in Canadian history, and a promise to US President Donald Trump to raise military spending to 5% of Canada’s GDP.
Tráfico de armas EE.UU.-México: el negocio detrás de los cárteles mexicanos Telesur. Según el informe más reciente de la ATF (2019–2024), el 74 % de las armas recuperadas a criminales en México provienen de EE.UU.
Geopolitics & Mexico’s Power
Current Mexican sovereignty has. from the Italian perspective, managed to differentiate itself from that of Europe and the United States, reclaiming autonomy, resources and the power of the state and national economy.
The Redemption Committee
Morena’s mushy-headed, pseudo-Christian doctrine of pluralistic redemption has outlived whatever usefulness it had, offering salvation only to the crooked and opportunistic. It’s time to flip over some tables and cleanse the temple.
What to do with Criticism?
Let the nepobabies dream of tasting the honey of power, let them be frivolous and equivocal as they usually are. The political process in Mexico is moving forward.