NEWS BRIEFS
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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.
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Morena’s Manuel Vázquez Arellano Warns of Ulterior Motive in Pedro Haces – israel Friendship
The deputy warned of an “undertone” linked to the interests of large israeli companies in the context of Mexico’s new Water Law, which Haces didn’t vote on.
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Evicted Mexico City Families Will Protest on December 15
The protest is being organized by 11 República de Cuba tenants, who were evicted by a court officer using the ID of a tenant who had been dead for five years.
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Faced with CDMX Inaction, Committee Seeks to Recover Fidel & Che Statues
Mexico City’s Clara Brugada has made no progress recovering the statues after they were illegally removed by the ultra-right wing Cuauhtémoc mayor.
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Mexico City Fails to Control Airbnb Ahead of 2026 World Cup
Proposed legislation from both Batres’ interm administration & the current Brugada government has not been instituted: no one is monitoring property use & a digital registry that was supposed to be operational since 2024 remains inactive.
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A French Precedent for Mexican Workers
La France Insoumise’s popular proposal to nationalize France’s largest steelmaker can inspire Mexican workers to force the government to make strategic decisions in support of the workers’ struggle.
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President Sheinbaum Proposes Her Timeline for Mexico to Reach 40 Hour Workweek by 2030
95 years after the International Labour Organization adopted 40 hours as a standard, Mexico, whose workers work the most among OECD countries, will finally adopt it.
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Mexico Raises Minimum Wages for 2026: 13% & 5%
President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the increase, which will bring the daily wage from $278.80 to $315.04 pesos and from $419.88 to $440.87 in the northern border zone.
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Morena Deputy & “Trade Unionist” Pedro Haces Establishes a Friendship Group with israel
The meeting was opposed by other Morena deputies who had squashed an earlier attempt to institute a friendship group with the genocidal, racist state.
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Let’s Talk About Migration
Trump’s actions & rhetoric have once again placed migrants at the center of public debate, creating an adverse climate characterized by restrictive measures & open xenophobia.
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Mexico’s Resigning Attorney General Allowed Fuel Theft to Run Rampant: Sentences Plummeted to Zero
Soon to be an ambassador, Alejandro Gertz Manero leaves, behind a Prosecutor’s Office incapable of fulfilling even its essential functions.
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A Century of Mexico’s Organ Grinders
For over a century, the barrel organ, weighing between 24 & 38 kilograms, has been part of the soundscape of a Mexico that revived after the revolutionary movement. Now, traditional organ grinders are protecting their sonic culture against counterfeit organilleros armed with MP3 players.
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Tribute to Guerrilla Lucio Cabañas, 51 Years After His Death
On December 2, 1974 the rural teacher, guerrilla & founder of Mexico’s Party of the Poor died during a confrontation with the Mexican military in a coffee-growing jungle of El Otatal.
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Mexico City Citizens Ask President Sheinbaum to Expropriate Water Well Granted to Televisa
Residents of Santa Ursula Coapa protested at Estadio Azteca against 2026 World Cup construction work & the privatized well which threatens public access to water.
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Bill Proposes Six More Vacation Days for Mexican Workers
This is the ninth initiative in the current legislature seeking to expand the list of holidays for workers in Mexico, one of the countries with the fewest mandatory days of rest.
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Rapid Response Labor Mechanism to Review Freixenet de México Union Busting
Workers accuse the highly profitable Spanish wine company in Querétaro of harassment, unfair dismissals, and refusal to recognize their union rights since 2023.
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A Mexican Steel Company Died… Workers Followed
Privatization, corporate looting, neglect & a bosses’ union destroyed Altos Hornos de México, stranding its workforce without pay & prospects; since its closure more than 70 workers have died, now survivors petition the Mexican government to make good on former President AMLO’s promise of social justice.
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AMLO Reappears
Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador re-appeared in a video promoting his new book, saying he would return to the streets for 3 reasons: to defend democracy, the President, & national sovereignty.
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CNTE Will Strike, Protest in 2026 so President Sheinbaum Keeps Promise to Repeal Calderón’s ISSSTE Law
The teachers union will mobilize to ensure the Mexican President honours her 2024 campaign promise.
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Clicks November 29
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including farmers strike, 40 hour work week, Indigenous femicide, migrant protections, US imperialism vs Mexico, Gen Z marches, & poverty reduction.
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Torre Mítikah left Xoco with Little Water, Classism & Aggression
The Mítikah luxury apartment & shopping complex consumes 12 percent of all the water received by the pre-Hispanic town, increasing water shortages by 1,750% between 2018 and 2022
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Mexican Supreme Court Reinstates 2% CDMX Tax on Digital Platforms
A 2022 injunction filed by the parasitic American corporation Uber & upheld by previous neoliberal Supreme Court justices ends up in the trash, where it belongs.
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Mexican Legislators Approve Protection for Public Sector Union Autonomy
“Today marks a turning point for the guarantee & progressivity of the labor rights of workers in the service of the State by safeguarding the right to free unionization and elevating union autonomy to the level of law.”
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Minimum Wage Dialogue Begins
While Mexico’s minimum wage has increased substantially in years, it has yet to reach the purchasing power it had in 1976.
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Mexican Farmers & Transporters End Blockades
The government has made a commitment to farmers to discuss excluding basic grains and oilseeds from the review of the USMCA.
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80% of Mexico’s Water is Stolen by Corporations & Politicians
The insatiable appropriation of water in Mexico is a systemic problem driven by politicians and large corporations—such as Coca-Cola, Lala, mining companies, and the tourism sector.
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Mexican Corn Corporations Manipulate Prices
In October 2024, Mexico’s anti-trust authority decried the situation as being an oligopoly, and singled out Maseca, Minsa, Gruma, Cargill as paying unfair prices for white corn while reaping extreme profits selling to tortilla shops.
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President Sheinbaum: Honduran President Castro Concerned About Foreign Interference in Elections
Recently leaked audio recordings reveal a conspiracy between right wing politicians and businessmen to falsify preliminary results in the November 30th election, to intiate a crisis to steal the election from left wing candidate Rixi Moncad.
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Mexico’s Consumer Protection Agency Shutters Actor Palazuelos’ Tulum Hotel & Other Traps Over Rip-Off Rates
The waning power of the Tuluminati is less likely to ensnare Mexican consumers in its morbid, macramé web of infantile regression & extortionate price tags.
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Two Mexican States Cancel Predatory “Coca Cola Christmas Caravan”
Tabasco and Puebla will cancel the Christmas marketing campaign, which is heavily subsidized by local and state governments, after El Poder del Consumidor argued its aggressive marketing violated Mexico’s General Health Law and the right to health of children.
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In Honour of Pancho Villa, Mexico’s Flag Will be Flown at Half-Mast Every July 20th
The Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa represents the struggle of the unprotected in the collective memory of the people.
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Mexican Government Commits to Eradicating Violence Against Women
The agreement establishes 10 commitments, such as ensuring that no complaint is dismissed by prosecutors or courts of justice.
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Domestic & Caregiving Work Exceeds Contribution to Mexico’s GDP of Manufacturing & Trade
INEGI estimated that the economic value of domestic and care work performed by the population aged 12 and over was approximately 8 trillion pesos.
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Flour Mills Pay $4 or $5 per Kilo for Corn & Sell Tortillas for $27
“We’re all worn out from working so hard, while you support businessmen who earn billions!,” exclaimed Salvador Ruiz, a farmer from Jalisco, to the Agriculture Secretariat’s delegate.
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Mexican Farmers Occupy US Border Crossing, Protesting Agricultural Policy
Campesinos are demanding the federal government craft a sovereign agricultural scheme & leave the speculative market of the Chicago Stock Exchange, which forces prices well below production value.
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Supreme Court Re-Opens Coca Cola Tax Debt
For decades, a neoliberal-captured Supreme Court allowed corporations to evade and defer massive tax debts to the Mexican state. Recent rulings suggest that era may be over.
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Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras, Arrives in Mexico
Honduras is currently experiencing what the Progressive International has called “a coordinated effort to distort, delegitimize, and ultimately interfere in the country’s sovereign democratic process.”
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Sheinbaum: 40 Hour Work Debate & Vote Delayed til February 2026
Delays and increased business demands have provoked some unions, who initially agreed with the 2030 timeline, to demand an immediate implementation of the 40 hour workweek.
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Campeche Corn Farmers Accuse Mexican Agriculture Secretariat of Breaking Promise to Buy Annual Production
Maseca, Minsa, Bachoco, Keken and Crio executives, who import corn from US, also failed to show up to the meeting despite promises from the government.
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Mexico Imported Record 40.7 Million Tons of Grain
Heavily subsidized corn from the US is flooding the market, destroying farmers’ livelihoods and leading to country-wide strikes & blockades as the government’s stated concern for food sovereignty is questioned.