Clicks September 14
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics.
Stephanie Weatherbee and Alina Duarte, Mexico and the Fourth Transformation Tricontinental Institute. Since 2018, Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) has sought to roll back neoliberalism and democratise the country. Though the ideological battle has advanced, economic transformation continues to lag behind.
Claudia Sheinbaum llama vende patrias a ‘Alito’ Moreno por viajar a EU a ‘acusar’ nexos con el narco El Financiero. La presidenta Sheinbaum acusó que ‘Alito’ Moreno fue a pedir la intervención de Estados Unidos en México.
Viri Ríos and Humberto Beck, The Mexican Model Dissent. Does Morena’s success offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange in the old, cold war, anti-communist journal with some interesting points, weighed down by a banal, liberal focus on the fraudulent notion of judicial independence.
Rolando Cordera Campos, Las decisiones que no deben ser pospuestas La Jornada. Falta la voluntad del gobierno, la llamada a articular visiones e intereses, remprender los esfuerzos de programación del Estado y arriesgar una oferta mayor: planear el desarrollo.
Drazen Jorgic and Laura Gottesdiener, Inside the CIA’s secret fight against Mexico’s drug cartels Reuters. President Sheinbaum denied that the CIA was operating in Mexico in her morning press conference a last week.
México se prepara para negociaciones complejas del TMEC con Estados Unidos y Canadá Los Reporteros. El gobierno mexicano revisará cada desacuerdo del TMEC mientras enfrenta la presión de Washington sobre energía, agricultura y propiedad intelectual.
Yielding to external coercion will only make Mexico more passive Global Times. A pointed editorial from one of the primary journals of the Communist Party of China implies that, by placing tariffs on certain imports, the Mexican government is doing the bidding of Donald Trump and could face a substantive response from the Chinese government. Canada faced a significant economy-damaging response from the Chinese government after putting tariffs on Chinese EVs.
Jared Laureles y Daniel González, Solo 1 de cada 10 trabajadores por aplicación accedió a seguridad social universal: UNTA La Jornada. La organización que encabeza Sergio Guerrero señaló que los llamados porcentajes de exclusión —que reducen hasta en 60 por ciento el ingreso reconocido como salario— “están generando una barrera estructural para el reconocimiento de derechos”.
Mexico’s CFE seeks private investors for grid expansion amid budget cut Bnamericas. Further public-private partnerships in Mexico’s public sector have been a little commented on feature of Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration, in contrast to her predecessor.
Norberto Paredes, El boicot de las estrellas de Hollywood, un enorme concierto de Residente en México y otras acciones de protesta y solidaridad con los palestinos alrededor del mundo BBC News Mundo. El concierto, que fue organizado por la Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, estuvo cargado de mensajes políticos.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Announces Cancellation of La Parota Dam in Guerrero; Water Wells Will Be Built Instead
After a two-decade grassroots fight against the CFE dam on the Papagayo River, the government will supply Acapulco with radial wells and tanks instead.
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Thousands March in Mexico City in Support of Cuba, 73 Years After the Assault on the Moncada Barracks, Against US Attacks on the Island
Backed by over 100 organizations, from Morena to communist parties, the march condemns Trump’s invasion threats and the six-decade blockade.
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The Study of the Far Right Is Necessary: Mexico’s Science Secretary
Scholars at a Secihti panel traced how far-right movements, “neither new nor spontaneous,” are gaining ground by borrowing the left’s own vocabulary on jobs, freedom, and crisis.
