NEWS BRIEFS
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Brutal Yankee Aggression Against Patria Grande Expands, says Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
The United States of America in its neo-fascist stage, no longer even retains the appearance of a democratic country.
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Nahua People of Alpuyeca Seek Indigenous Recognition via Mexico’s Supreme Court
The Nahua demanded the consultation by carried out by the Alpuyeca, Morelos municipal government to secure Indigenous rights five years ago to no avail.
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Detentions of Americans by Mexican Army & National Guard are on the Rise
Most arrests are related to firearms and explosives, and so carried out by the Army and National Guard.
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President Sheinbaum Instructs Foreign Ministry to Contact Rubio After Trump’s Comments on Attacking Mexico
A September meeting between Rubio & the Foreign Minister was followed by airstrikes off the coast of Acapulco.
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Mexico’s National Front in Defense of Sovereignty Responds to Trump’s Attack Threats
The Front denounced the possibility the US could enter Mexico militarily or coercively and identified weapons and financing sustaining the narcotics trade as originating from the US.
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Trump Says US Will Start Attacking Mexico
The US President made the comments in a Fox News interview which aired only 5 days after the US attacked Venezuela & kidnapped its President, Nicolas Maduro.
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Mexican Food Dependency Deepens: Domestic Grains & Oilseeds Only Cover 44% of Consumption
National agriculture is overwhelmed by heavily subsidized US imports & squeezed by food monopolies, while beneficial state programs only extend to the poorest of producers.
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Monte de Piedad Strike: 3 Months In Without Resolution
This article by Jessica Xantomila originally appeared in the January 7, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The National Union of Workers of Nacional Monte de Piedad and the company met again yesterday at the Federal Conciliation Center, but without progress in ending the strike that broke out on October…
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Mexico’s Afro-Descendant Communities Fight Racism & Inequality
Discrimination is compounded by a structural vulnerability exposing Afro-Descendants to systematic violence perpetrated by various powerful groups associated with capital.
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Mexican Organizations Building United Front Against US Imperialism
Representatives from trade unions, peasant groups, social organizations, Morena, left wing parties and solidarity groups were present today at the press conference at the Journalists’ Club of Mexico.
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Dockworkers Demand Justice 35 Years After Salinas, Carlos Slim Rip-Off
Veracruz’ Dockworkers Union was one of the most powerful in Latin America, until privatization and union-busting took aim, handing the port over to businessmen like Carlos Slim.
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Mexico’s Federal Labour Center Anticipates More Sanctioning Tools in 2026
After years of budget cuts, an increase in resources for the labour monitoring institution represents operational relief.
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Ex-PRI Governor of Puebla Sentenced 60 Years for Femicide of Cecilia Monzón
Helena Monzón, the victim’s sister and lawyer, celebrated the ruling against López Zavala, found responsible as the mastermind, along with perpetrators Silvestre Vargas Ruiz and Jair Mauricio Domínguez, the politician’s nephew.
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President Sheinbaum’s Comments on Venezuela
“Mexico firmly believes that the Americas are not the domain of any doctrine or power. The American Hemisphere belongs to the peoples of each of the countries that comprise it.”
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President AMLO Breaks Silence, Condemns “Arrogant Attack” by US on Venezuela, Kidnapping
The popular former President of Mexico has been in retirement from politics, but today advised President Trump to “tell the hawks to go to hell”.
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Mexican Senate Suspends Meeting That Would Have Authorized Entry of US Military Personnel for Naval Exercises
The meeting was cancelled this afternoon, citing new circumstances following US military aggression against Venezuela.
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President Sheinbaum Reiterates Condemnation of US Attack on Venezuela
The Mexican President emphasized the importance of Latin America and the Caribbean acting together in defense of sovereignty and international law.
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Venezuela Thanks Mexico for Firm Condemnation of US Attack
Foreign Minister Yván Gil reiterated the call for respect for international law and the demand “to stop these criminal attacks.”
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Trump Says “something will have to be done about Mexico” After Attacking Venezuela, Kidnapping President Maduro
The US President and international criminal claimed that President Sheinbaum does not control Mexico.
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Mexico Condemns US Aggression Against Venezuela
Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally in recent hours by armed forces of the United States of America.
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“Clueless” Morena Governments Signed Privatization Agreement: Marx Arriaga
“Just because the government or its leaders are from Morena doesn’t mean that all institutions have a progressive vision,” the Director General of Educational Materials commented.
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China Accuses White House Advisor of Politicizing Trade by Encouraging Others to Mimic Mexico’s Anti-China Tariffs
The Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Chen Daojiang said the US is “deliberately exporting a failed model to Latin America.”
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Supreme Court Tax Rulings Concern Samsung & Maquiladoras
The companies, who profit heavily from the exploitation of Mexican labour, seek to maintain significant fiscal advantages at the expense of the Mexican treasury after years of evading export taxes.
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Education Dissident Marx Arriaga “remains the voice of the state, let’s not be fooled”: Specialists & Teachers
Critics point to the alternative teaching and learning model of the CNTE, which aims to bring students and the community closer together.
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Mexico’s Director General of Educational Materials Sounds Alarm About Creeping Education Privatization
Marx Arriaga Navarro made a Christmas call to form Committees for the Defense of the New Mexican School to defend public education against internal operatives and corporations.
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Mexico City’s Participatory Budget Will Increase to 2.3 Billion Pesos for 2026
The participatory budgeting model was first used in 2011 as a direct democracy mechanism, allowing residents to propose and vote on specific projects to improve their neighborhoods, towns, and districts.
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Delivery Union Rejects Government’s App Worker Law Modifications
Only 14% of workers last year were able to access the full benefits of social security, while the union believes changes are insufficient to remedy the hundreds of thousands of workers in precarity.
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Presidents of Cuba & Venezuela Express Solidarity & Send Condolences After Train Derailment
At least 13 people were killed after an Interoceanic Train carrying 250 people derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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Morena Senators Call on Mexican Government to Protect Migrants from Bounty Hunters
Huerta Ladrón de Guevara & Chavira de la Rosa denounced Trump’s strategy of hatred against migrants and citizens of the world, and said they would assess what measures to take in response.
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Left’s Incompetence Caused Return of Right in Latin America, Warns Zapatista Gathering
Despite the rhetoric of progressive left-wing governments and social programs, “none of them scratched the capitalist pyramid.”
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Clicks December 28
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Trump’s threat, FIFA’s corruption, British opinions, Christmas toys, free books, the Latin American ultraright, Sheinbaum’s clothing, Trump’s military operations, and glyphosate’s future.
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Mineros’ Leader Thanks Sheinbaum for Support Resolving Cananea Strike
Napoleón Gómez Urrutia said the union was very happy about ending the strike, which broke out in July 2007 due to serious failures in safety and hygiene, as well as labour violations by Grupo México.
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Delivery Drives Say Mexico’s Platform Law Meant Drop of 56% in Income
Only 10% of drivers managed to reach the required income threshold to access the five insurances provided by the state.
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Mexican Unions Formerly Affiliated with PRI are now with MORENA
President Sheinbaum has rejected corporatism and the bussing in of supporters, yet charro unions maintain a massive presence at government events in the Mexico City’s Zócalo.
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Land of the Godínez: Work, Obedience & Dispossession in Contemporary Mexico
José Baroja’s satire is, in reality, pure sociology: the expression of an economic order & labour regime in Mexico that normalizes long hours, insufficient wages, constant evaluations, identity loss and the sacrifice of a personal life.
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President Sheinbaum: Mexico Ships Oil to Cuba for Humanitarian Reasons
The President recalled decades of solidarity with Cuba, recalling that Mexico was the only country that opposed the US blockade on the island from the outset.
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Florida, the Race for the Presidency & Opaque Capital
Contemporary Florida is the distorted and advanced mirror of a new form of global governance, where money laundering has not only been tolerated, but institutionalized & updated for the digital age, fed by a murky river flowing from the Global South.
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Tlalpan & Coyoacán Residents Call for Action Plan Against 2026 World Cup Effects
Dubious claims of a “Social World Cup” notwithstanding, Mexico City residents say the upcoming World Cup must be met by a Plan which organizes popular defense of the territory.
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El Yunque Founder José Antonio Quintana Croaks in Puebla; Far Right Mourns
The organization, with a significant influence on Kast in Chile & the Vox Party in Spain, believes there is a “Judeo-Masonic-Communist conspiracy” against Western Civilization.
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Grupo Salinas Must Pay 51 Billion Tax Bill in January
Woes are multiplying for the ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who won’t have much to celebrate despite being a guest at US President Trump’s recent Christmas dinner.
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Clara Brugada: Zarco Not Dismissed at Railway Workers Museum
Mexico City’s head of government announced the locomotive mechanic, trade unionist, communist and founder the Railroad Workers Museum will receive a tribute in May.
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Mexico’s Elected Supreme Court Must Resolve 69 Tax Disputes Within Two Months
One pending matter is the last tax case involving ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s Grupo Salinas, involving 621.9 million pesos.
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Trump, Hands Off Venezuela Rally
Mexicans rallied outside the new US embassy in Mexico City, expressing solidarity with Venezuelans and demanding US President Donald Trump cease his aggression against the Bolivarian Republic.
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Milpa Alta, The Mexico City Borough with No Retail Chains
An oasis without predatory transnational chains, where 90% of land is communally owned, and decisions are made in communal assemblies.
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Cananea Strike Against Tycoon Germán Larrea Ends After 18 Years on the Picket Line
Severance pay, social security, and pensions for unemployment and widowhood are guaranteed for the miners in Sonora.
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Mexican Cinema, Receiving Increased Incentives, on the Rise at the Box Office
Mexican cinema represented 35 percent of the total films shown and accounted for 16 percent of annual attendance last year.
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FIFA, Flush with Government Subsidies, Will Distribute Only 5% of 2026 World Cup Profits
The international criminal consortium FIFA, which debased itself even further by awarding genocide manager Donald Trump a “peace prize”, is expected to make upwards of $11 to $14 billion from the trinational spectacle, whose matches are priced beyond the means of most Mexicans.
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President Sheinbaum Calls for “Non-intervention” in Face of Trump’s Aggression Against Venezuela
The Mexican President criticized the United Nations for its “absence”, calling on the international organization to assume its role in preventing conflict and bloodshed.
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Christmas Without a Bonus for 13.7 Million Workers
Mexico’s Scrooge-like employers evade their legal obligation because most employees are informal workers.
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Cultural Promoters: Demand for Zaco’s Resignation at Railway Workers Museum is “Arbitrary”
The trade unionist was fired by Mexico City’s Ministry of Culture, who still have yet to recover sculptures of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara that were stolen by ultra-right wing mayor Alessandra de la Rojo Vega.
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Trump Classifies Fentanyl as Weapon of Mass Destruction
The US President also revived a military medal originally created to recognize US soldiers who fought against Pancho Villa’s forces, to be awarded to troops “defending” the border with Mexico.
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Mexico City Congress Codifies Crime of Violence Between Partners, Including Dating Relationships
The reform establishes that these crimes will be prosecuted ex officio and that aggressors must attend re-education workshops.
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Call for “Gen Z” March Fails Again
The march was comprised, once more, primarily of adults aged 40 to 60 years old, a thin mixture of the superannuated & conspiracy-minded.
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Clicks December 14
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press.
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Mexican Farmers Protest Again Next Week
Campesino organizations are proposing the government creating a Strategic Food Reserve to stabilize prices, strengthen food sovereignty & help thousands of farmers facing ruin from the agricultural crisis.
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Ejido Members “completely shut down” Canadian Mine in Guerrero
Carrizalillo community members don’t understand why the Mexican government allows the Canadian corporation to continue committing environmental offenses for which Los Filos mine was previously shut down.
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China Calls on Mexico to Reconsider Tariffs on its Products
Under Article 32.10 of the USMCA, Mexico can only pursue a free trade agreement with a non-market economy like the People’s Republic of China if the US government approves.
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Mexico’s Strategy to Continue Handing Water Over to US is Unsustainable, Warns Expert
The Director of the Permanent Forum on Binational Waters asserted that Mexico must renegotiate the 1944 Treaty, otherwise it will not be able to guarantee deliveries.
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Mexico’s Tariff Hikes on China Will Cause Major Disruptions for Key Mexican Industries
Manufacturers reliant on Chinese inputs warned of rising costs, and lawmakers, including some from Morena, sought to avoid a dispute with a nation many consider crucial to Mexico’s trade diversification.
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Mexico City Congress Creates Commission to Investigate “Gen-Z” March Violence
The overwhelming opinion on Mexico’s left is that shock groups in the November 15th confrontation were paid for, and orchestrated by the right wing opposition.
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Bean Producers Face Ruin: Squeezed by Corporations, Government Support Insufficient
Mexico’s government has not met its commitment to enforce its agreed-upon price for farmers, who are forced to sell to an oligopsony of corporations, intermediaries and wholesale operators.
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Mexico City Distributes Free Vouchers for Public Markets
300,000 Mexico City residents have received the vouchers, which are worth 2,000 pesos & can be redeemed at public markets and neighbourhood enterprises.
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Bean Imports from US Worsen Mexico’s Farm Crisis
Subsidized US beans are flooding Mexico, above the amount required to meet national demand, while the government fails to meet commitments it made to producers only a month ago.
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Mexico’s PT: 35 Years of Struggle
The Workers Party, originating in Mexico’s Maoist movement and a long-time ally of AMLO since his 2006 Presidential campaign, was founded on December 8, 1990.
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Via Campesina Latin American Coordination Holds 8th International Congress in Mexico
The world’s largest peasant & Indigenous movement expressed its solidarity with Mexican farmers, who have been striking to demand the government remove basic grains from free trade agreements.
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Palestinian Solidarity Movement Condemns Genocide Supporter Visit to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies
Last week, Morena Deputy Pedro Haces attempted to secretly reinstitute a friendship group with israel, but was denounced by other deputies from Morena and the Workers Party.
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600k in Mexico’s Zócalo for Seven Years of the Fourth Transformation
Photos of the anniversary commemorating the Mexican party Morena & social movement the Fourth Transformation forming government.
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Seven Years of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s address to 600,000 people in Mexico City’s Zócalo.