NEWS BRIEFS
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Zapotec Community in Oaxaca Strengthens Defense of its Cultural Heritage After Dispute with Adidas Over Appropriation
Villa Hidalgo Yalálag is working not only to protect its cultural designs, but also recovering the official Zapotec name they had lost in 1877.
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La Via Campesina Issues Global Call Against WTO & Free Trade Agreements
The relentless promotion of Free Trade Agreements has led to widespread privatization and deregulation, primarily benefiting corporations at the expense of the working class everywhere.
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including US arms trade, Veracruz & fracking, USMCA & Steelworkers, the ever-present trafficking discourse, cumbia rebajada, price control on gas, and social housing prototypes.
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Trump Launches Investigation into Mexico for Excessive Manufacturing Capacity & Production
US officials say the investigation will examine whether certain industries in Mexico are producing more goods than domestic demand can absorb and exporting excess supply into the US market.
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Senate Concludes Vote Against “Golden Pensions”; Sends Reform to San Lázaro
President Sheinbaum’s initiative establishes a cap on pensions and retirement benefits for high-ranking officials to prevent them from receiving more than 50% of the presidential salary.
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Three of Every Four Unpaid Caregivers Never Cease Being Poor
Performed primarily by women in Mexico, it is a determining factor in inequality of opportunity, says a new report ‘Social Mobility & Care.’
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Indigenous Communities Tell Sheinbaum Fracking Threatens Huasteca Potosina’s Social Fabric & Natural Resources
In a letter addressed to the Mexican President, communities expressed concern over what they consider a change in the government’s commitment to prohibiting hydraulic fracturing.
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People’s Republic of China Embassy Warns Mexico About Shen Yun Performances
The dubious cultural production is in fact a vast propaganda operation for the right wing Falun Gong sect, which is backed by US intelligence services and also publishes the crypto-fascist Epoch Times newspaper.
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Iran Asks President Sheinbaum to Condemn US Attacks: “If the US wins, it won’t be difficult for them to attack Mexico or Cuba”
“The best position in the world, so far, has been that of the Spanish government,” Iran’s ambassador to Mexico, Abolfazl Pasandideh said.
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Chilean Congresspeople Ask President Sheinbaum Not to Approve Chahuán As Ambassador to Mexico
Chahuán presented a bill which would released convicted criminals from the Pinochet period, believed to have been written by military officers currently imprisoned for crimes against humanity.
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Sheinbaum: Rejection of Electoral Reform Not a Defeat, Will Present Plan B
Reforms include capping the resources allocated to local deputies & municipal councilors; expanding public consultations to include political party budgets; and holding recall elections in the third or fourth year of the Presidential term.
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What Does President Sheinbaum’s New Housing Initiative Propose?
The Executive branch seeks to incorporate the concept of adequate housing into public programs, considering not only the physical characteristics, but urban environment, availability of services & accessibility to development.
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Mexico’s Sugarcane Growers Want Just Treatment Under USMCA
Mexican sugar exports face quotas in the US, but US corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup have no import restrictions in Mexico, a situation even worse than the original NAFTA agreement.
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Veracruz: Oil Spill Victims Complain Of Insufficient Action by State Government
Residents of Pajapan, who live around Laguna Ostion, demand that the authorities take prompt intervention to solve the hydrocarbon spill in the southern part of the state of Veracruz.
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San Luis Potosí Goodyear Workers Threatens Strike After Salary Increase Refusal
While Mexico’s general minimum wage has had a real increase of 116% in the last seven years, SITGM workers have received only 15.2% increases in the same period.
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Mexico Closes Embassy in Iran
This article originally appeared in the March 11, 2026 edition of El Sol de México. The Mexican Embassy in Iran, which also serves Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, announced on Tuesday the closure of its diplomatic headquarters in the country due to the escalation of the armed conflict in the Middle East and will…
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Tita Radilla: More Disappearances Today Than During Mexico’s Dirty War
The activist, who has fought for justice for victims of forced disappearances for five decades, says impunity persists & authorities at all three levels of government downplay what happens daily.
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas: There is a Risk of US Intervention in Mexico
The three-time presidential candidate and son of former President General Lázaro Cárdenas decried Trump’s recent Miami meeting for its “very clear anti-Mexican stance.”
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Mexico’s Alianza Nacional Telefonista Wants Government Review of Telmex Concession
Previously public owned, Telmex is one of Mexico’s largest telecommunications companies, and has been identified by the Trump administration as a barrier to US entry into the Mexican market.
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Mexico Denounces US Use of USMCA Labour Mechanism to Influence Unions
Gabriel Tamariz, head of Labour Policy and Institutional Relations, said the mechanism is also being used to promote unions, “some founded and financed in dollars,” that don’t even have representation in companies.
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500 Million Pesos in Dues Missing; Workers Believe Mexico’s Federal Labour Regulator Complicit
Alejandro Martínez Araiza, General Secretary of the National Food and Commerce Union has spent 295 days today in blatant defiance of Federal Labor Law.
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Pulling The Leash: US Sets Record with 25 Trump Cabinet Visits to Mexico in 13 Months
A non-stop parade of imbeciles & criminals who shouldn’t even be let out of their neighbourhood, nevermind their country, have stained the soil of this great Republic.
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Farmers Will Blockade World Cup if Government Doesn’t Address Agricultural Crisis
Mexico’s three year crisis is causing desperation, aggravated by US crop dumping, a hostile Agriculture Secretary, monopoly profiteering and an unwillingness from the government to protect agriculture and food sovereignty.
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Somos México: Old Salinas Supporters, Claudio X Supporters, TV Azteca Supporters, & PRIAN supporters
Neither left nor right so actually right, Mexico’s newest party Somos MX gathers together the neoliberal political detritus of other parties for one more kick at the can.
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President Sheinbaum Responds to Trump & Shield of the Americas Militarization
The Mexican President addressed comments made by the US President at the Shield of the Americas Summit, a sordid gathering of regional sycophants & lumpen-criminals held in Miami, one of the world’s worst cities.
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Mexican Farmers Announce Nation-Wide Blockades for March 20th
Citing insufficient support, bankruptcies, crop-dumping by the US, and abandoning Mexican food sovereignty in USMCA negotiations, farmers say the government’s ties to big business has pushed them to this national action.
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Morena National Council President Urges Party to Eradicate Opportunism Before 2027 Elections
The Governor of Sonora asked the National Council to take care of Morena and the Transformation, and made it clear that in the face of that objective, “we are all indispensable.”
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Mexico City’s Cooperativa de Salud Panamédica, Women-led Health Cooperative Celebrates 19 Years
Serving the south of the city, the cooperative promotes the right to health, and serves approximately 100 people every month, honouring the principles of the social and solidarity economy.
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Anti-Fuel Theft Program Stalled
Two months after Mexico’s requirement to carry a QR code & GPS came into effect, only 3,725 registrations have been issued for an estimated 1.2 million units that transport fuel.
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Monopolies like Nestlé Used COVID to Discredit Breast Milk: Study
The infant formula industry in Mexico took advantage of the pandemic to promote itself over breastfeeding with false information & unethical practices.
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Zionist Diego Olstein Expelled from UNAM
This statement was released by the Inter-University and Popular Assembly for Palestine on March 7, 2026. Yesterday, March 6, 2026, students from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and other faculties of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) decided to boycott, cancel, prevent, and expel Diego Olstein from our facilities. We did so consciously…
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Experts Warn About Excessive Overtime with Reduced Working Hours
The increase in permitted overtime hours may be seen by companies as a permanent remedy to compensate for the reduction to a 40-hour workweek.
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How a Group of Mothers Created Mexico City’s Roundabout of Women Who Fight
The anti-monument, created as a symbol of the resilience of thousands of women with missing relatives and to remember victims of femicide, replaced a statue of Christopher Columbus in 2021.
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UNAM Altar Honours Iranian Schoolgirls Murdered by US Imperialism
Attacks on schools during conflict is one of the six grave violations identified and condemned by the UN Security Council.
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Cine Mujer Collective Celebrates Sisterhood as Resistance in ‘Rebeladas’ Documentary
In the late 1970s, amidst a patriarchal society, the Cine Mujer Collective emerged, feminist filmmakers who found in cinema the ideal political tool to denounce gender problems that defined Mexican society at the time.
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Mexico’s Environmental Agency Shuts Down 6 Real Estate Developments in Cabo Pulmo
Cabo Pulmo in Baja California Sur enjoys the highest level of environmental protection in Mexico, as it is a national park.
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Soda Sell-outs: Organizations Decry Mexican Government’s Coca Cola Promotion
150,000 new cases of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Mexico result from Coca Cola consumption annually. Does the US corporation need free advertising from the President, too?
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Mexico’s Food Self-Sufficiency Declines
Agro-Industrial crops are grown for export while heavily subsidized imports from the US destroy corn and basic grain production. Has the government decided to sacrifice Mexican agriculture to save free trade?
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Employer Fines For Violating Workweek Limits Between 30,000 to 586,000 Pesos
Mexico’s Secretariat of Labour & Social Welfare will determine the fine based on a variety of criteria, but a dearth of labour inspectors across the country may hamper workers ability to obtain justice.
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CNTE National Strike is Opportunity to Avoid World Cup Strike
Section 9’s General Secretary said a strike during the World Cup could be avoided by President Sheinbaum keeping her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law and meeting other demands.
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INEGI: Gross Fixed Investment Contracted 6.6%, Driven by Decline in Public Spending
Investment was affected mainly by the collapse of public construction, which contracted 28.9% annually in 2025; and of private investment in machinery and equipment, which fell 10.5%.
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Chapingo University Workers Demand Mexico’s Agricultural Secretariat Intervene to Guarantee Wages
Five salary levels are below Mexico’s legal minimum wage, such as janitors who make a daily wage of 254 pesos when the minimum is 315 & 2025 year-end bonuses have not been paid.
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Mexican Farmers to Mobilize for Food Sovereignty & Agricultural Model Transformation March 20th
Farmers will seek to prevent the transit of heavily subsidized grains imported from the US & denounced the concentration of the food market by a small number of transnational corporations.
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World Cup Construction at Estadio Azteca Causing Respiratory Problems say Residents
Doctors in the area estimate that up to 70% of their patients suffer from some ailment related to constant exposure to particulate matter & fumes emitted by heavy machinery.
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Mexico City Expected to Achieve Measles Herd Immunity by End of March
Mexico City’s Health Secretariat aims to vaccinate 2.04 million people.
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Farmers Demand Governor Monreal Open Promised Bean Collection Centers
Farmers have been waiting since October 2025 for the Morena administration to meet its commitment to purchase the bean harvest, which is now rotting, while middlemen profit from their desperation.
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Mexico’s Workers Party Proposes Wealth Tax
The socialist party, which has 49 representatives in the Chamber of Deputies, proposed a tax on Mexico’s rich, who pay exceedingly low tax rates, to fund poverty reduction, housing, public education and social programs.
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“Dignified wages are not concessions: they are constitutional rights” – Striking Cultural Workers Respond to Mexico’s Cultural Secretariat
2,000 workers have been paid below Mexico’s national minimum wage for over two years, violating the law.
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Mexico’s Coca Cola Judge
Judge Miguel Ávalos Cornejo sought to grant an injunction to Coca-Cola allowing them to continue selling in high schools and universities under the preposterous justification of protecting the mutlinational’s “right to work.”
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego Wants His 300 Deputies
However much the ultra right winger is despised for his business practices, his TV networks lack audience and prestige, and he recruits unreliable journalists, he has plenty of money left to influence politics in Mexico.
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CNTE Announces 72 Hour National Strike & March to Mexico City’s Zócalo
The class-conscious teachers union will also make “courtesy visits” to the embassies of countries who committed atrocities against Iran, to show their rejection of US imperialism.
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Yet Another Mexican Citizen Dies in ICE Custody
The unidentified victim is the 9th Mexican citizen to have been killed in ICE detention since the beginning of 2025; this time in Adelanto, California.
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Workers Occupy Culture Secretariat, Demand 13% Wage Increase
2,000 workers have been receiving incomes below Mexico’s minimum wage for over two years.
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Mexican Delegation To Participate in April Global SUMUD Flotilla to Gaza
The aim is to work towards ending the genocide that the Israeli government—with the support of the governments of the EU & the fascist US government—is carrying out against the Palestinian people.
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Workers Party Claims Sheinbaum Electoral Reform Will Eliminate Party System
The socialist party’s leader recalled the democratic spaces that the left managed to conquer with the 1977 & 1996 reforms, a “fruit of countless struggles, repressions, imprisonments, disappearances and even armed uprisings.”
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Anti-FIFA Challenge: Football Defends the Territory
Mexico City residents are organizing Anti-World Cup Days to protest water theft and gentrification that have accompanied preparations for the World Cup, put on by the corrupt, international criminal consortium known as FIFA.
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Tridonex Strike in Matamoros to Start March 6th
1,300 workers are expected to strike, demanding the company fulfill its obligation to pay workers in full. Tridonex is owned by First Brands, the US autoparts corporation accused of massive fraud.
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Consultations for Community, Indigenous & Afro-Mexican Social Radio Guidelines Begin
For the first time, Mexico’s telecommunications regulator is expected to eliminate requirements such as economic, administrative, legal and financial capacity, which were a barrier for communities to access a concession.
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Iranian Ambassador Asks Mexico to Condemn US & Israeli’s Illegal Attacks
The Ambassador confirmed 106 young children were confirmed murdered after the US & Israel regimes bombed a girl’s school.
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Clicks February 28
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including El Mencho and US imperialism, World Cup of Gentrification, field workers fight for justice, migrant farmworkers lawsuit, and Mexico misses out on Chinese EVs.
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Two Haitian Children Die in Mexican Migrant Custody
Consorcio Oaxaca reiterated the urgent need to guarantee effective measures to prevent recurrence, a thorough review of security conditions in institutional shelters, independent oversight, clear protection protocols, and accountability mechanisms.
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137 Months Since Disappearance of the 43 of Ayotzinapa
Parents of the missing students demand the Army hand over 800 files it has it in its possession and complain no new meeting has been scheduled with President Sheinbaum since their last meeting in November.
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Kimberly-Clark, Pepsi & Truper Charge Truckers for Narco Blockade Delays
Corporations stop paying for trips worth 10,000 pesos and others try to charge 1,000 pesos for each hour of delay, even when it’s due to acts of violence.
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TV Azteca Declares Insolvency, Will File for Voluntary Bankruptcy Proceedings
The network, which is owned by ultra-right winger Ricardo Salians Pliego and operates a concession granted to it by the Mexican state, appears to have been viable only if it never had to pay taxes.
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Mexican Film’s Dreary Reality: Workers Announce Work Stoppages, Decry Informality
President Sheinbaum’s Comprehensive Plan to Support National Cinema arrives as public film workers raise the alarm over unpaid wages and illegal, informal labour conditions.
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A Raw Deal
Mining in Mexico has not led to economic development. Despite record wealth extraction, mining communities remain poor, and often poverty rates are far higher than the national average.
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Oxfam: Billionaires Contribute Only 21 Cents per 100 Pesos of Tax
As the tax burden in Mexico is still disproportionately on the working class, pensions and social spending are simply a form of recirculating the working class’ own money, as opposed to having the wealthy contribute a fair share for societal benefit.
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Working Poverty in Mexico Decreases in 2025
However, nearly one in three people still did not have sufficient income to cover the basic basket of goods.