NEWS BRIEFS
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Mexican Women Denounce Their Torture by israel
The Global Sumud Flotilla participants denounced physical, psychological abuse & torture, demanding President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo break relations with the genocidal entity.
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Mexico City Limits Cellphone Use in Schools, Mandates Baby Changing Station in Men’s Bathrooms
Reforms were also approved to punish phishing with six years in prison, and to create a Sports Secretariat.
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Mexican Milk & Dairy Imports Start 2026 at Record High
The figures represent the highest level recorded since data has been available, as subsidized US imports, droughts, and increased grain prices have battered Mexican producers.
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Mexico City Gives Hosts & Platforms like Airbnb 30 Days to Register
The goal is to prevent a disproportionate increase in housing prices as well as temporary accommodations during the World Cup.
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FIFA’s a “global power of dubious integrity”, World Cup “bombards with advertising,” Football “is a manipulative lie”: Social World Cup Fails To Thrill Mexicans
Polling by Mexico’s La Jornada reveals Mexicans largely unimpressed with the football spectacle.
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Mexico’s Environment Secretariat Preparing Blacklist of Environment Destroyers
A draft bill proposes those listed will be barred from obtaining environmental permits, authorizations, or concessions for a period of up to ten years, & will also be denied access to subsidies or public support.
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CIA Agent Met with Chihuahua Governor, There is a Photo, says Journalist
For Luis Chaparro, beyond the political implications, the case reveals possible violations of the National Security Law & an irregular relationship with US agencies.
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Mexican Government Announces Plan to Guarantee White Corn Price
Drought, the dumping of subsidized crops from the US, middle-men profiteering and falling prices have been indebting and ruining Mexico’s corn producers.
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Sanampay. Yesterday, Today & Always.
In 1977, almost half a century ago, one of the most popular groups in Latin American folk and nueva canción was formed in Mexico, giving a new dimension to Andean music.
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Day Labourer Shot by National Guard
“It’s a miracle Marcelino is alive. We only ask that the authorities investigate this serious crime because they shot without any justification and directly at families.”
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Chihuahua State has Illegal Agreement with israel
“Mario Mata broke the law, modified the agreement on his own and evaded federal control procedures; this agreement is also a violation of national sovereignty.”
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Mexico’s Environment Secretariat halts Royal Caribbean Tourism Project in Quintana Roo
Due to the environmental impact the construction could have on Mahahual, the project will not be approved.
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Mexico City Police Close Reforma to Stop Farmers Protest
With trucks, patrol cars, riot police, and even an official tow truck, the police blocked vehicles carrying protesters, despite their right to public demonstration.
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O’Horán Hospital Begins Free Services Under IMSS-Bienestar
The Yucatán hospital, inaugurated last Sunday by President Claudia Sheinbaum, will serve more than one million people without social security.
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Mexico’s Arbitration Board Orders Reinstallation of Honda Union Leader Fired in 2010
Jose Luis Solorio Alcala was fired in 2010 along with other workers after the creation of an independent union at the Honda plant in El Salto, Jalisco.
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Mexico Confirms Mexican Women Kidnapped from Sumud Flotilla by israel are in Detention
Sol Gonzáles, Violeta Muñoz and Paulina Castillo were traveling to Palestine on a humanitarian mission and were kidnapped by the lawless, genocidal entity.
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Mexico Has Requested 269 Extraditions from the US Since 2018: None Have Been Fulfilled.
In contrast, in 2025 Mexico handed over nearly 100 people to the US, via an “expulsion” process of dubious legality.
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CNTE Announces National Strike on June 1st & Occupation of Mexico City’s Zócalo
Union leadership says “the President of the Republic’s refusal to address our legitimate demands” led to the consensus to begin the national strike.
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Capitán Marcos of the EZLN says Cuba Maintains its “social project amidst all possible threats”
“Maybe the letters to spell the word ‘surrender’ don’t exist in the Cuban alphabet.”
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20,000 Marched in Defense of the Homeland in Chihuahua
A marcher insisted it wasn’t just about politics, but about sovereignty & the feeling the state was being handed over to foreign interests. “Here, the CIA governs us.”
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Mexican State Apologizes for its Responsibility in Forced Disappearance of Gregorio Alfonso Alvarado López
Gregorio Alvarado was a teacher, poet, father, and Indigenous social leader who was forcibly disappeared along with his family, after months of surveillance & persecution in September 1996.
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CNTE Defines its Political Course for Repeal of 2007 ISSSTE Law
The Mexican teachers say they “are in a battle against financial forces that refuse to be challenged,” and that they “will have to build bridges with many organizations affected by pensions.”
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Billionaire Carlos Slim’s Telcel Illegally Charges 135,000 Customers for “AI Service”
Mexico’s Federal Consumer Protection Agency, PROFECO, reported that the captive customers did not authorize or request said service.
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Hondurasgate Confirms US Meddling in Mexico
The “Hondurasgate” scandal, stemming from leaked audio recordings in May 2026, alleges a coordinated, foreign-backed plot to destabilize the administration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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San Antonio Abad Residents Demand Expropriation of Collapsed Building for Social Housing
Two months after the collapse, Mexico City authorities have yet to clarify the condition of the site or the investigation into the negligent homicide of the three construction workers.
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Morena: “The governor of Chihuahua will not escape justice; she betrayed the nation”
The Governor is accused of inviting CIA agents to operate illegally in Mexico.
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Second Chihuahua Prosecutor Resigns Over CIA Scandal
Hours earlier, prosecutor Wendy Chávez confirmed in an internal investigation the presence of US agents inside the Attorney General’s office.
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Lucía Guadalupe Mora, Morena Political Liaison & Teacher, Murdered in Chihuahua
Morena’s state executive described Guadalupe Mora as a “combative woman, committed to a firm fight against corruption and in defense of social causes.”
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Collectives: Sending Army to Guerrero Won’t Solve Violence Against Indigenous People
“In 11 years we have documented at least 76 murders and 25 disappearances; while the Mexican State has shown an attitude of complete indifference towards the desperation of Indigenous peoples.”
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CNN Says CIA Murdered in Mexico with Car Bombs; Security Secretary Harfuch Says They Didn’t
A CNN story attributes a March 28th, 2026 car bomb which killed two in Mexico State to the CIA, along with other undisclosed operations.
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Coahuila State Police Attack, Disperse Protest by Workers from AHMSA Steel Company
Nine workers were arrested and several injured, as workers demand payment of their salaries and severance, which have been owed to them for more than three years.
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Informality Reigns Among Workers
Mexico’s enduring high levels of informality means the progress seen in recent years with minimum wage increases & vacations has not had the desired impact.
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Intentional Homicides Decrease by 40% Under Sheinbaum’s Government
With 1,020 fewer homicides, April is the month with the lowest incidence in the last 11 years.
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Monte de Piedad Board Rejects Appearance Before Court
1,800 workers have been without income or benefits since the strike began in October 2025.
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Ministry of Education Backtracks; Social Pressure Derails Plan to End School Year Early
After four days of protests from all sectors of society, Mario Delgado announced the reversal. The initial change had been justified as necessary due to a heatwave & to serve the World Cup.
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Pedro Sánchez: Ayuso’s Visit to Mexico was “embarrassing”
Spain’s Prime Minister questioned the statements and behavior of ultra-right politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso during her visit & recalled Mexico’s historical support for Republican exiles.
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Criminal Group Los Ardillos Attack in Guerrero, Four Members Disappear, Indigenous Org CIPOG-EZ Reports
The towns of Xicotlán and Tula were occupied by the criminal group after four days of attacks, displacing over a thousand people.
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Judging the Crimes of Fascist US Imperialism
The International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist Meeting, held at the headquarters of Mexico’s Electrical Workers Union, aimed to confront the onslaughts of US imperialism.
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March Called Today Against Monreal Government in Zacatecas for Repression of Bean Farmers
The arrest of 12 people has caused widespread outrage and solidarity from unions, social organizations, and civil society groups.
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Clicks
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics including Canadian mining & organized crime, Trump vs Mexico, missing children, the gringo narcowar, Mexican consulates, and school year engineering.
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School Administrators, Parents, Teachers & Unions Reject Premature End of Mexican School Year
The Secretariat of Education cut 28 days of classes, provoking protest amongst those who see the government “protecting the interests of the business class in the context of the World Cup.”
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US State Department Will Review Mexico’s 53 Consulates
Reactionary gringo author Peter Schweizer has recently advanced a dubious conspiracy theory that the Mexican government utilizes consulates to infiltrate and interfere in American domestic politics.
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Lilly Téllez’s Pro-Trump, Far-Right Agenda Gains Momentum During Her Senate Term
The acidic ultra-right Senator from the PAN has a noted preference for stateside trips and mingling with gringo reactionaries.
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Mexico Can Tax the Super-Rich & Combat Inequality, Argues Jayati Ghosh
Speaking at UNAM, the economist said extreme wealth weakens democracy and deepens inequality.
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PAN-Affiliated Cop Who Wanted to Give Offices to CIA, ICE & DEA Wants to Govern Chihuahua
Gilberto Loya Chávez, the state’s Secretary of Public Security, embroiled in Mexico’s big CIA scandal, has political aspirations.
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Unpaid Work in Mexico is Equivalent to Cost of 30 World Cups
More than 72 percent of unpaid domestic and care tasks are performed by women; a core part of the daily functioning of the economy that remains outside of remuneration schemes.
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Mexico City Approves Right to Care in City Constitution
The reform indicates that the human right to care is indispensable for exercising other rights.
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Workloads & Working Hours are Main Risks to Workers’ Health in Mexico
The health of four out of every ten workers in Mexico is seriously threatened by excessive workloads and working hours.
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El Buen Cine, Mexico City’s DVD Store Holding its Own Against Streaming & Gentrification
For over 15 years, a space for film buffs and the curious has been one of the last DVD stores in Mexico City.
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“No foreign power is going to tell us how to govern ourselves”: Sheinbaum
At the ceremony commemorating the Battle of Puebla, President Claudia Sheinbaum emphasized that those who resisted the invasion of 1862 left a lesson for the people of Mexico.
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Mexico Condemns Interception in International Waters of Global Sumud Flotilla
Mexican photographer Abril Rojas was traveling on one of the boats seized last Wednesday by Netanyahu’s regime in international waters near Greece.
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“Mining companies use organized crime against unions”: Napoleon Gómez Urrutia
The head of Mexico’s National Mining Union said that several mines are replicating the model of Canadian Orla Mining, hiring armed groups to interfere in union votes.
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“That a poor right-winger votes for Trump or Milei is a result of cognitive warfare”: Omar González
Cuba’s former Deputy Minister of Culture will give a seminar from May 5th to 12th at UNAM in Mexico City.
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Nacional Monte de Piedad Union Rejects Government Arbitration Proposal
1,850 workers have not received their salaries for seven months, but they reject the government’s proposal for arbitration and demand the employer respect their collective bargaining agreement.
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US Ambassador to Mexico Conspires with Far Right, Sets CIA in Motion
One year after his arrival in Mexico, America’s deathsquad diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico Ronald D Johnson is leaving an unwelcome mark on domestic politics.
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Tabasco Governor: US Accusations Against Morena Members are an “unsubstantiated act of interference”
Javier May Rodríguez said the US is going through a deep crisis and wants Mexico’s land and natural resources.
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Audio Links Milei to Regional Disinformation Operation Against Sheinbaum & Petro
Argentine President Javier Milei reportedly contributed $350,000, according to audio recordings of former Honduran and drug trafficker President Juan Orlando Hernández.
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Mexico City’s International Workers Day Mobilized 20,000
National unions such as CNTE, SME and unions representing PEMEX and TelMex workers participated in multiple marches which converged on the Zócalo.
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Housing Orgs & Experts See Fair Rents Reform as Insufficient in Face of Gentrification in Mexico City
Nine months after CDMX head Clara Brugada presented the Fair Rents Act, none of its initial promises have been fulfilled say housing advocates & newly announced initiatives will only be implemented far in the future.
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Tornel Workers Ask for President Sheinbaum’s Intervention to Resolve Strike
In March, striking workers were attacked on the picket line by an armed shock group who shot four workers.
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Mexico City Workers Call for Unity on May Day; “there are still many labour problems”
“Unity is not only found at the dialogue table but also at this event of workers and workers,” Isaías González of CROC stated.
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Mexico’s Education Secretariat Will Meet with CNTE Teachers on International Workers Day
Secretary Delgado says “there is no need for demonstrations” in the streets, but stressed, “we are respectful” of the decisions they make.
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Glyphosate: the Legal & Political Battle That Defines the Future of the World’s Most Widely Used Herbicide
A US Supreme Court decision on cancer & agrochemicals is taking place as the Trump administration declares glyphosate a national security priority.
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President Sheinbaum Presents Steel Industry Supports
Mexico’s steel industry, one of the few not dominated by foreign capital, has been hard-hit by tariffs placed on it by US President Donald Trump.
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Mexican Unions Demand Direct Dialogue with President Sheinbaum on May 1st, International Workers Day
Unions say the priority is for the President to hear firsthand the needs of the workers and improve their conditions “in a more real sense”.
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Delgado Asks CNTE Not To Obstruct World Cup
Mexico’s Secretary of Education worries for the success of the ostensible international sporting event marked by proximity to, & encouragement of, human trafficking, labour exploitation, real estate speculation and fascist collaboration.
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CIA Agents Killed in Chihuahua Were Carrying Weapons & Wearing Uniforms
A new photo contradicts the Chihuahua Prosecutor’s story about the two CIA agents, operating illegally in Mexico, who died in Chihuahua last week.
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Mexico’s Current Minimum Wage Buys 1.94 Basic Basket of Goods; in 2018, it was 0.78
The National Minimum Wage Commission says that last year’s wage increase still outpaced even the sharp inflation which hit the basic basket of goods.