NEWS BRIEFS
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CHINA ANNOUNCES FORUM WITH CELAC MEMBERS: LULA, PETRO, BORIC CONFIRMED
The forum will adopt a three year plan, covering measures for collaboration in scientific and technological innovation, economic and trade investment, finance, infrastructure, agri-food, energy development, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
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CLICKS MAY 10
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including Communist Party of Cuba and Morena agreement, Taibo II talks TV nationalization, lawsuit against Google, Rubalcava and the Metro, Monreal family questions, USW in Mexico, Telecommunications law, no US troops, and Morena’s new ethical guidelines.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 9
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on corridos for peace, increase in support for film, repatriation of Mexican migrants, the new Pope, banks urged to reduce interest rates, housing corruption, and recognizing Mexico’s mothers.
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CRIME DOWN IN MEXICO
The Mexican government has released statistics showing an across-the-board reduction in crime, particularly high-impact crime, and attributed the results to the successful application of the Security Strategy, launched in October 2024.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 8
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on reduction in violence and crime, free medical consultations, security strategy results, Federal Police won’t return, Teuchitlán case, judicial elections, and freedom of expression.
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PLAN MEXICO: PRODUCTIVE SOVEREIGNTY OR MODERNIZING DEPENDENCY?
What is promised in its rhetoric does not always coincide with the structural logic underlying Plan Mexico, which seeks to further integrate Mexico into a subordinate cog in the U.S. productive apparatus.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 7
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on infrastructure, security, corridos, USMCA, controversial CDMX Metro appointment, Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s suggestion to nationalize TV Azteca, Zedillo’s audit proposal, and debunking circulating lies.
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SOBERANÍA 57: WORKING 9 TO 5
The 40-hour workweek will be a reality in Mexico…eventually. Plus tarrifs, troops, Sheinbaum’s letter and a New Yorker smearjob.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 6
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on construction begins on 106k units of social housing, fraud lawsuits against housing developers, national sovereignty, Telecommunications Law, & premature campaigning restrictions.
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MORENA SETS RULES FOR INTERNAL COMPETITION; BANS NEPOTISM IN 2027
The document reiterates recommendations made by President Claudia Sheinbaum in a letter she wrote following the scandal involving Senator Andrea Chávez and internal disputes that have arisen in other states, such as Coahuila.
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GUIDELINES FOR ETHICAL CONDUCT FOR REPRESENTATIVES, PUBLIC SERVANTS, PROTAGONISTS OF TRUE CHANGE, AND MORENA MILITANTS
On Sunday, May 4th, Morena adopted a ban on electoral nepotism and expanded the ethical guidelines its leaders, elected officials, militants and candidates must follow. These are the guidelines.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 5
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on price controls, steel industry regulation, increasing domestic energy production, national economic outlook, SNTE strike, US-Mexico relationship, improving housing and water access, missing persons issue, and ethics within Morena.
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GOVERNMENT TO RECOVER 600,000 ABANDONED HOMES
Built mainly during the Fox and Calderón administrations, they were built for private profit with public money, and didn’t meet the needs of workers: with no services, nowhere near urban centers.
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PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM’S LETTER TO MORENA LEADERSHIP & MILITANTS
“Some modest suggestions to the Morena leadership, for the good of our country, our people, and our Movement.”
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CLICKS MAY 3
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including GMO corn ban, 40 hour workweek, Trump tarrifs and labor, Ernesto Zedillo returns, Las Solderas, Trump proposes US military action, CIA operative rapist, Mexicans relieved AMLO moved Spanish private energy corps from market.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA MAY 2
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on US-Mexico trade relations, Unilever investment, economic strength, culture and books, human rights, resisting privatization.
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MAY DAY: SHEINBAUM ANNOUNCES TRANSITION TO 40 HOUR WORKWEEK
Unfortunately, the transition time is five years.
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MAY DAY: AUTOWORKERS DIVIDED BY TARRIFS?
This May Day, when workers around the world rise to demand rights, respect and their just share of the wealth, autoworker solidarity is on the line.
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MAY DAY: PARTIDO POPULAR SOCIALISTA DE MÉXICO
International Workers Day statement from the Popular Socialist Party of Mexico.
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CAN CANADA & MEXICO TEAM UP AGAINST TRUMP?
José Luis Granados Ceja appeared on Canadian television program TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss the potentials for Mexico-Canada cooperation after Canada’s recent election.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 30
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on new water projects and water theft, new child care centers for children of workers, US-Mexico trade relations, economic growth, Izaguirre Ranch case, Children’s Day stipends for public school students, and debunking rumours.
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MAY DAY: WORKING HOURS REDUCTION: UNION DEMAND
Reducing the workweek, pension reform, and eliminating taxes on benefits are some of the main demands that unions will raise during the International Workers Day march.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 29
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on measles and whooping cough, National Vaccination Week, ISSSTE extends workday to support health, new Oaxacan healthcare center, earthquake drill, open investigations against pharma profiteers, revealing the truth of Fobaproa bank bailout, US Mexico water issue, Veracruz municipal elections, & government pharmaceutical purchases.
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SOBERANÍA 56: CORPORATE MEDIA OPPOSE NEW TELCOMS LAW
President Sheinbaum wants to stop foreign governments from being able to run offensive ads and seeks to revamp Mexico’s outdated telecom laws, including making internet more accessible and increasing community access, but corporate media and some critics are accusing her government of censorship.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 28
Sheinbaum tours public infrastructure projects, gas prices drop, counterfeit ticket sales, support for Reynosa and Rio Bravo residents, Mexicans play an important role in US economy, Axe Ceremonia and Parque Bicentenario, Sheinbaum responds to PRI hypocrisy.
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CLICKS APRIL 27
Sheinbaum to ban gringo propaganda, missing persons progress, undocumented Americans in Mexico, Mexico biggest poverty reduction in Latin America, social housing, Mexico City metro durgging, corridos contra femicides, Mexican nationalism, & Morena and Workers Party relations.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 25
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the progress on improving labour conditions, the new Telecommunications Law, criminalization of 3D printed weapons, judiciary trust funds allocated to social security, judicial elections, and the search for María del Carmen Morales and her son Jaime Daniel.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 24
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Grupo Modelo investment, foreign investment, Shared Prosperity projects, Plan Mexico, minimum wage, Silvano Aureoles, Telecommunications Law reform, & Claudia’s letter to Morena.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 23
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on a national network of women community organizers, 678 women’s centres to be established, hotline for misogynistic violence, early registration for pension for women ages 60 to 64, 5 new childcare centres, Claudia’s letter to Morena, defense of Ariadna Montiel.
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SOBERANÍA 55: TRUMP MILITARIZES BORDER ZONE
Donald Trump has militarized the border, to get US troops to take part in the deportation of migrants, the questionable Ecuadorean election and Mexican President Sheinbaum’s pledge to not restore relations; also, why is Mexican private media running Trump’s anti-migrant ads in primetime?
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 22
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public security, the Teuchitlán case, Pope Francis’ funeral, Plan México, judicial reform transparency, corporate involvement in education, dubious IMF outlook, and Claudia’s book report.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 21
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the passing of Pope Francis, gasoline price controls, digitizing the bureaucracy, National Digital Investment Window timeline, three proposed legislative reforms, rethinking parliamentary immunity, denying Ecuador’s allegations, US government propaganda discriminatory, and universal social programs.
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CLICKS APRIL 20
GM workers win big wage hike, Ecuadorean propaganda provocation, new plan to tackle the housing crisis, PT and Morena issues, corporate hotel malfeasance, Marco Rubio’s dirty laundry, judicial election candidates, fentanyl trafficking decline and loss of public forests.
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PEOPLE’S MAÑANERA APRIL 16, 2025
Claudia Sheinbaum’s inclusion in Time’s 100 most influential people is a recognition of the Mexican people, judicial election news, narcocorridos, medicinal pricing, 1944 Water Treaty with the US, Mexican tomato sanctions, Mexico will not have diplomatic relations with Ecuador so long as Noboa remains President.
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SOBERANÍA 54: COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW
These dangerous times call for regional unity, but can Latin America unite against Trump threats?