NEWS BRIEFS
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SOBERANÍA 19 – ELECTORAL LAWFARE
The Mexican right wing attempt to steal Morena’s legislative supermajority through electoral lawfare, PAN confesses what we always knew wall along, and Tim Golden’s latest DEA sourced hit piece in ProPublica.
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CLICKS JULY 22
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US unions decry Caterpillar move to Mexico, multipolar opportunities, agroecology, Trump & Mexico, ongoing revival of passenger rail, Mexican humanism, China & Mexican green energy cooperation, the curse of water privatization, Canadian mining crimes, corn dispute.
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SOBERANÍA 18 – Will MAGA Reloaded Set its Sights on Mexico?
What are the potential consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency for Mexico? Also, Morena’s overhaul of the judiciary, new tariffs on Chinese metals and greenwashing propaganda from The Guardian.
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CLICKS JULY 15
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Communism coming to Mexico soon warns Bishop, energy reforms, steel tarrifs, rising wages for unionized workers, tech corp profiteering and the border issue.
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SOBERANÍA 17 – Fishy Financing at Anti-AMLO Outlet ‘Latinus’
Soberanía dives into the criminal investigation of the funding of a far-right propaganda outlet, Morena’s controversies surrounding Sergio Mayer and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, and President-elect Sheinbaum’s cabinet picks.
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CLICKS JULY 8
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. The Western Left takes a glance at Mexico, Taibo II’s popular press, more DEA corruption, inequality, Monsanto in Mexico, migration, David Harvey in CDMX, CNTE’s fight for popular pedagogy.
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Right wing tries to discredit Mexico’s election
An interview with Rafael Barajas, El Fisgón, head of Morena’s National Institute of Political Education.
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SOBERANÍA BONUS – International Reaction to Sheinbaum’s Victory
Kurt Hackbarth speaks with Dr. Escamilla Ham, expert on US-Mexico relations, on the international reaction to Claudia Sheinbaum’s election.
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CLICKS JUNE 30
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Neoliberalism as corruption, eco-reserves, GMO corn dispute, US flooding Mexico with guns, the figure of Alazraki.
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Historic opportunity for Mexico’s Left
Morning Star Mexico correspondent David Raby looks at how the decisive electoral victory for Morena candidates will translate into policy.
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SOBERANÍA SPECIAL – AMLO’s Progressive Reforms to Mexico’s 1917 Constitution
A special co-production with the Democratic Constitution Podcast on proposed constitutional reforms, including the controversial effort to radically change Mexico’s judiciary, and why these changes can cement AMLO’s legacy.
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CLICKS JUNE 22
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Judicial reform, Latin American integration, public sector driven energy transition, Clara Brugada’s utopias.
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This Chicano is Inspired by Mexican Election
Bill Gallegos, a veteran Chicano liberation activist, environmental justice leader, and revolutionary socialist, has a lot to celebrate and anticipate.
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Claudia Sheinbaum: Morena Comes of Age
An interview with Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete, coordinator of the Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior, on Claudia Sheinbaum & Morena’s victory.
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LEFT RECKONING w/ MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth
What does Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic electoral victory mean for Mexico’s 4th Transformation and what lessons can the US left learn from it?
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Weekly News Items June 17
The Mexican Right is defeated and the PRI bankrupt, Brugada to expand social housing, public banking success, mining strike, migration battle, state utility expansion, and new possibilities in the labor reform.
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Working Class Poverty: A Historical Turn
Working poverty is an outrageous hardship, since it cannot be attributed to the lack of will of individuals to get ahead, but rather to the pettiness of employers or failed business models that do not allow jobs to be created in conditions of respect for human rights.
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REAL NEWS NETWORK w/ MSM’s José Luis Granados Ceja
José Luis Granados Ceja debates Tamara Pearson on the meaning of AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum and the 4th Transformation.
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SOBERANÍA 16 – Capitalist FREAK-OUT
International financial markets and their teareaders in the corporate press react to Sheinbaum’s intention to follow through on her mandate & pursue constitutional reforms.
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The Challenges of Mexico’s Labor Reform
While the capitalists want to enforce borders that workers can’t cross, we are showing that yes, we can! Through communication, cooperation, and organization, working-class power can jump over borders.
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Weekly News Items June 9
AMLO’s legacy, Claudia’s path forward, Supreme Court reforms, the death of the PRD, John Deere plants moving to Mexico, and the unceasing dubious punditry in Mexico and abroad.
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SOBERANÍA 15 – Historic VICTORY for the Mexican Left
Elected on a left-wing program promising to deepen the political transformation started by outgoing President AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory has provoked the ire of Mexico’s right-wing elites and intellectuals.
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DSA & 4TV Mexico Forum
A discussion with visiting members of the Democratic Socialists of America on Morena, anti-imperialism and common areas of struggle.
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Mexico Solidarity Media on The Katie Halper Show
Mexico Solidarity Media editor José Luis Granados Ceja joined Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Angeles and Katie Halper to talk about Mexico’s historic election of Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish person elected president in North America.
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Mexico’s Political Rebellion
Ben Norton of the Geopolitical Economy Report is joined by Mexico Solidarity Media editor José Luis Granados Ceja to discuss what their Fourth Transformation means for the US, China, Russia, Latin America, and the global economy.
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The Magnitude of a Historic Election
The partisan representations of that neoliberal and oligarchic right, its intellectuals and commentators and its civil organizations are today experiencing a profound and irreparable defeat.
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MEXICO ELECTION NEWS DIGEST
English & Spanish language stories on the largest election in Mexico’s history which produced Mexico’s first female President and landslide results across the map for the left party of Morena and its coalition partners.
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Don’t Defend Us, Comadre
Residents of Chihuahua don’t need any help dealing with water issues from a representative of aquatic criminals like Xóchitl Gálvez, writes Victor M. Quintana S.
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Working Class Clara Brugada to Head Mexico City
Feminists have applauded the Utopias for years because Brugada’s was the only vision to become a reality that embraced the significance of creating care facilities for the long-awaited national care system
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Getting to “Yes” to Migrants
Can we find it in our hearts to act in solidarity with people on the move today? Can we revive the tradition of welcoming new neighbors? Author John Washington, in our interview, believes that we can. And that we must, in order to preserve our own humanity.
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SOBERANÍA 14 – Who Really is Polarizing the Electorate?
Evaluating the opposition’s failed strategy in this presidential campaign that never came close to threatening Morena’s massive lead. With mere days to go, Claudia Sheinbaum looks set to secure a landslide victory.
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Weekly News Items May 25
Mexico City leftist candidate Clara Brugada, corruption in food processing, Sheinbaum proposes water reforms, deaths at Movimiento Ciudadano rally stage collapse, potential Telmex strike, ICJ on Mexico-Ecuador, Chinese investment, the right wing opposition marches.
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SOBERANÍA 13 – Mexico’s Chief Justice Throws HAIL MARY to Save Floundering Opposition
Mexican Supreme Court President Norma Piña outrageous politicial interference, Xóchitl Gálvez’ poor performance in the third and final presidential debate, the underwhelming “Marea Rosa” rally, and Denise Dresser, rehashed and uncompelling.
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Weekly News Items May 18
US fentanyl crisis, Sheinbaum campaign, the dark history of AFL-CIO and CIA collusion against Mexican labor, US warns against Chinese EV production in Mexico, UNAM’s Palestine encampment, Supreme Court corruption, migration, and mining.
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More Than Food: US Threaten’s Mexico’s Corn
In response to AMLO’s ban, the US filed a suit to force Mexico to accept US GMO corn. Will Mexico, like China with the Opium War, be forced to import a product they judge unsafe for their people and harmful to their native agriculture?