MEXICO’S MOMENTOUS JUDICIAL ELECTION
Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, joins US news program Breakthrough News with Eugene Puryear & Rania Khalek to discuss Mexico’s historic judicial elections. In the landmark elections where judges were chosen by popular vote, Hackbarth says the Morena-led reforms are a crucial step to overhauling a judiciary long plagued by corruption and nepotism.
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CNTE Announces National Strike on June 1st & Occupation of Mexico City’s Zócalo
Union leadership says “the President of the Republic’s refusal to address our legitimate demands” led to the consensus to begin the national strike.
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CNTE Defines its Political Course for Repeal of 2007 ISSSTE Law
The Mexican teachers say they “are in a battle against financial forces that refuse to be challenged,” and that they “will have to build bridges with many organizations affected by pensions.”
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Mexico’s Education Secretariat Will Meet with CNTE Teachers on International Workers Day
Secretary Delgado says “there is no need for demonstrations” in the streets, but stressed, “we are respectful” of the decisions they make.
