NEWS BRIEFS
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Debt on the Installment Plan: Salinas Pliego Pays $10B MXN; $22B in Installments
The ultra-right winger and tax evader fumes, but begins to pay his debt piece-by-piece, but with less punitive measures than his Grupo Elektra receives.
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“Cooperation, Not Subordination?” No Oil from Mexico for Cuba, Sheinbaum Says Will Help “without putting Mexico at risk”
The sad reality behind President Sheinbaum’s oft-repeated slogan on Mexico-US relations.
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Mexico’s Gig Worker Reform Risks Institutionalizing Exclusion of Women Workers
Workers are demanding that platform companies implement real protocols against violence, with effective sanctions & a guarantee that “reporting will not bring us algorithmic punishments.”
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Mexican Union Fights in US After First Brands Bankruptcy & Factory Closures
Mexican workers with 30 years of seniority were told by the legal advisors of the US autoparts company that “there was no money to pay salaries or continue operations.”
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PEMEX & Mexico’s Energy Ministry Remain Silent on All Crude Oil Shipments to Cuba
PEMEX canceled a scheduled oil shipment this month.
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Trump Signs Executive Order: Punitive Measures Against Any Country “that directly or indirectly provides oil” to Cuba
The US President wants to destroy Cuba and starve its population and he wants Mexico to help. Or else.
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Cuban Embassy Denounces US Blockade Tightening & Persecution of Those Who Help
Johana Tablada asserted that the Cuban people will follow the example of their national hero in defending the island’s right to choose its own destiny.
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Will Incorporate Legal Knowledge of Indigenous & Afro-Mexican Peoples
“[Justice] must get closer to reality, and to get closer to reality we need method, we need knowledge, we need systematization, we need the people who demand justice, who cry out for justice, who mobilize out there.”
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Mexico’s Ex-President Felipe Calderón Called a “murderer” in France
Calderón’s specious drug war produced 120,000 homicides during his reign, representing an 140% increase compared to the previous presidential term.
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Mexico’s Labour & Social Welfare Secretariat Will Protect Workers From First Brands Bankruptcy
Patrick James, founder of the US autoparts company, has been indicted on fraud charges, while 7 plants are closed and more than 4,000 Mexican workers are now jobless.
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Mexican Government Rejects Accusations of Interference in US through Consulates
On Wednesday, Trump promoted a book that accuses Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration of organizing an “invisible coup” against the United States.
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Mexico Conspires to Invade US, says Book Promoted by Trump
The book outlines a Bannon-adjacent conspiracy theory that the Mexican government and elites in the United States are using immigrants in this country as a secret weapon.
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PEMEX Cancels Cuban Oil Shipment, Humanitarian Aid Might Continue
Will the shipment of oil as humanitarian aid continue? “We have to determine that based on the request,” Sheinbaum responded.
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Mexico City Public Works for 2026 World Cup Contradicts Needs of the Majority
Mexico negotiated a complete tax exemption for FIFA during Enrique Peña Nieto’s presidency (unlike agreements reached by Canada & the US) and a substantial commitment of public investment.
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UNAM Launches Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros Exhibit
The exhibition Siqueiros, Imprisoning the Flame will combine his writings, state records and photographs, and will open on February 4.
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Betrayal? Cuba Oil Shipment Apparently Cancelled, Sheinbaum Evasive, Says “Sovereign Decision”
The Mexican President initiated evasive maneuvers in response to direct questioning about a reportedly cancelled shipment of oil to Cuba.
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Solidarity Après la Lettre Dispatch #1
The Progressive International’s Nuestra América Summit, the San Carlos Declaration, and What Comes Next
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The San Carlos Declaration of the Nuestra América Emergency Summit
Full text of the declaration arising from the Progressive International’s Nuestra América summit held on January 24th and 25th, 2026 in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Mexican Government to Investigate Ticketmaster Monopoly for BTS Ticket Sales Irregularities
Mexico’s Attorney General indicated that the fines against the ticketing company could reach up to $230k USD.
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PAN’s Desolate “Mass” Membership Drive
It began in October with an arena event where Maximiliano Cortázar fell into a pool. Three months and only 3,500 new members later, the ultra-right party is still floundering in the deep end.
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Salinas Pliego Did Not Pay Tax Debt, Still Negotiating
A five-day grace period which would allow the ultra-right winger a 39% discount on his nearly $3 billion USD tax debt has passed.
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Mexico City Investigating Ultra-right Mayors in Connection with “Gen-Z” Shock Groups
Two investigations were launched in Cuauhtémoc & Miguel Hidalgo following accusations against Alessandra Rojo de la Vega & Mauricio Tabe Echartea related to the half-geriatric, half-lumpen march in November.
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Former DEA Agent Sentenced for Protecting Drug Trafficking Friends
Such cases are not rare for the corrupt American institution, which portrays itself as waging some sort of Drug War, but in reality operates as a critical management link between drug traffickers and the US security state.
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Sheinbaum: Wage Policies & Social Programs Broke Decades of Neoliberal Neglect
During a tour of Puebla, Mexico’s President cited these changes as reversing the historical backwardness faced by the popular sectors.
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Progressive International’s Emergency Nuestra América Summit Arrives at Critical Juncture for Latin American Unity
Beset by disunity, cynical calculation, tepid reformism and an ascendant ultra-right, Latin America and the Caribbean must unite against a US imperialism which aims to snuff out any emancipatory possibilities and subjugate the continent once and for all.
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Saúl Morán Oropeza, Unwavering Communist, Defender of the Poor & the People of Guerrero’s Red Mountain
Saúl didn’t remain at the level of words or ideologies, but transformed his convictions into daily action, traveling through communities and fighting to ensure that the voice of his people was heard.
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Greater Palestine Raises its Voice & Brings Visibility to the Gaza Genocide
The film, by Rafael Rangel and Mahmoud M. Zaqout and in close collaboration with 12 Palestinian photographers, exposes the human cruelty of imperialism against the Palestinian nation.
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Mexico City Approves Participatory Budget of $114 Million USD
Some proposed projects include street light replacement, sidewalk and street repairs, park restoration, security modules, rainwater harvesting and other infrastructure projects aimed at improving residents’ quality of life.
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Trump Insists Land Strikes Against Drug Traffickers Coming Soon, Rambles About Gulf of Mexico
“We have designated the Tren de Aragua, MS-13, & the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They have seen what we have done on the water. We are beginning to do it on land.”
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Mexico To Limit Entry of US Military Aircraft
President Sheinbaum’s decision to deny US military aircraft entry comes after a C-130J Super Hercules belonging to the US Air Force was spotted landing at Toluca International Airport on Saturday.
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President Sheinbaum Formalizes New Guanajuato Ejido, Closing Agrarian Conflict of More Than 80 years
Mexico’s President delivered legal, collective land ownership to the new community of Cruz del Palmar and announced support in housing, youth, community health & artisanal roads.
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Normalista Students Block Morelia Avenues While CNTE Teachers Occupy Education Secretariat
Trained teachers were protesting the lack of placements, while the CNTE union demanded the state government meet its hiring and salary obligations.
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7.4 Times Increase in Adult Literacy Program Graduates
For the governments of the Fourth Transformation, literacy is considered a national priority and a strategic action of the Mexican State to reduce inequalities, strengthen social inclusion and expand development opportunities throughout the country.
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Mexican Grains Crisis Persists: Farmers Threaten More Protests
Producers in the Bajío region report they have at least 1.5 million tons of corn unsold, while in Zacatecas, 80% of bean producers cannot sell their harvest.
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San Quintín: Exploitation of Agricultural Day Labourers Persists
Baja California day labourers arrive at ranches in the early morning and begin harvesting agricultural products on a piece-rate basis until they finish, without benefits or social security, in a completely illegal scheme.
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Mexican Farmers Will Stop World Cup
Campesinos, who shut down border crossings and major highways twice last year and face ruin due to the dumping of US crops, believe the government is sacrificing Mexican agriculture in order to secure a USMCA deal.
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38 Billion Pesos Withdrawn from AFORE Accounts Due to Unemployment
The large number of Mexicans withdrawing from their pensions to survive unemployment indicates an urgent necessity to establish national unemployment insurance.
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including a world without the USMCA or the death of Mexican agriculture, Indigenous rights, and the lingering threat of US military aggression against Mexico.
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University & Intervention
Our country cannot repeat the mistakes of the past, such as when Latin American unity was rejected or when it disregarded Cuban and Venezuela initiatives to connect with labor and educational forces, along with their proposals and warnings.
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The PAN’s “Trophy” in Guanajuato: 30,000 Murders in the Last Decade
Over three decades of rule, the right wing PAN implemented failed policies and oversaw record levels of violence in the state.
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Mexico City Landgrabs: 94 Properties Recovered, Six People Arrested
Mexico City has been plagued with high-profile night raids by criminal gangs, sometimes accompanied by police, invading and capturing properties throughout the capital.
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Dual American Mexican Citizen Dies Under ICE Custody in Private Prison
The unidentified man is the fifth person to die in ICE custody since the beginning of this year.
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Mexican Farmers & Agriculture Secretariat Dialogue Resumes Today
Mexican agriculture remains in crisis: 10 million tons of grain can’t be sold, the government is not meeting agreements while US dumping destroys the market & even limits access to credit to help farms last another season.
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Mexican Unions To Rally for 40 Hour Workweek… With Two Days of Rest
In the face of President Sheinbaum’s roundly criticized workweek reform proposal, considered excessively flexible & accommodating to capital & the danger to workers from USMCA renegotiations Mexican labour isn’t standing still.
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30 Mexican Unions Unite in Face of USMCA & Labour Demands
The bloc announced it will intensify regional meetings & coordination efforts, towards consolidating a unified trade union front.
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Evangelical zionists Close to Forming Political Party
Amongst other political malformities, two evangelical groups are set to become national political parties in Mexico, one with ties to the US ultra-right and the israeli government.
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Record Corn Imports for Third Year in a Row
Mexico’s food sovereignty is being rapidly eroded thanks to the dumping of heavily subsidized US corn and the USMCA, which is an erroneously named “trade” agreement to subjugate, not develop, the Mexican nation.
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Mexican Government to Invest Billions in Safe Pathways Illumination Program
The street lighting program matches illumination with sidewalk improvements and murals to bring security and a sense of community to previously dim and neglected urban areas.
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Zacatecas Bean Farmers Protest Non-Operational Collection Centers
Farmers are guaranteed a price of 27 pesos per kilo from the federal government centers, compared to the 7-12 pesos that intermediaries or coyotes pay them. But there’s one catch: they aren’t operating.
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CDMX Neighbourhood Organizations Call for World Cup Boycott After US Attack on Venezuela
Hyper-charged gentrification, dispossession and social cleansing are intensifying neighbourhood resistance near Azteca Stadium, the opening venue for the FIFA sporting event.
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Four People Arrested In Guadalajara Fare Hike Protest Released
More than a thousand people protested to demand that the Governor of Jalisco reverse his decision to increase public transport fares.
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Sheinbaum: Those Seeking US Intervention Have No Internal Power in Mexico
President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated that Mexico’s and her government’s position is enshrined in the Mexican Constitution, which establishes the principle of non-military intervention.
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World Cup Boycott Calls Grow in Response to Trump
“How can the United States be rewarded with hosting the World Cup, with its hands stained with Palestinian blood and an illegal attack on Venezuela?”
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CIA Cutouts Get $23.4M From US Gov to Interfere in Mexican Unions
Creative Associates International, the spooky group behind the infamous Cuban Twitter operation, and an NGO involved in dismantling Venezuela’s food system get fresh injections of cash.
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Falling Grain Prices Stifling Embattled Mexican Producers
Another blow for Mexican food sovereignty & farmers, who are already battling the US dumping some of the most heavily subsidized crops in the world.
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Mineros leader Gómez Urrutia says There are Those Who Want to Eliminate Unions
The trade unionist, who lived in forced exile in Canada for 12 years, discussed the necessity of international working class solidarity in defense of unions.
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Supreme Court’s Aguilar: Reversing Judicial Reform is “just wishful thinking”
Mexico’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court indicated that the people of Mexico are unlikely to want to return to a “justice system behind closed doors.”
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Café Bienestar Supports Only 1% of Coffee Farmers
Coffee producers are hoping that 2026 will be a year where the government expands support for the industry and ensures fair prices.
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including the ever ubiquitous Trump threat, deportations, and Mexico rises for Venezuela and Maduro’s freedom.
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Mexico City Mass March for Venezuela, Maduro & Flores
Defense of sovereignty and a unified continental response to US imperialist aggression comprised the collective agenda of the 10,000 strong march.
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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…