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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Washington’s strategy to recolonize America, public rail, cross-border unionization, FOBAPROA’s legacy, and the dubious 40 hour workweek reform.
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WTF: The Donroe Doctrine Vs Mexico
Saturday, February 7 morning broadcast of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean with José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth from Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast.
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A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere
This major setback in nearly three decades offers an uncomfortable lesson: measles elimination is not lost overnight; it erodes slowly.
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Sheinbaum: The Regime of Privileges Will Not Return
The Mexican President spoke at the 109th anniversary of the 1917 Mexican Constitution, which was one of the most advanced social constitutions at its time, & inspired the Soviet constitution.
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Committee Rejects CDMX Mayor Brugada’s Cultural Project at Tlaxcoaque Memorial
The building was identified as one of the main centers of torture & clandestine detention during the period of state political violence, and is part of an ongoing investigation into forced disappearances.
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In 2025, 297 Businesses Polluted Mexico’s Atoyac River & Were Only Fined An Average $1,800 USD Per Offender
While Puebla’s Water Agency uses fines to settle debts, the Atoyac River continues to receive discharges from factories that pay a minimal cost for failing to comply with wastewater regulations.
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Aceves del Olmo Leaves CTM, PRI’s Labour Wing, After a Decade
The leadership of Mexico’s largest trade union federation has traditionally, and controversially, been a lifetime position.
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Cambiémosla Ya: US-Mexico Critical Minerals Action Plan Puts Mexican Sovereignty At Risk
The collective believes the action plan is a betrayal of campaign promises, and a threat to Mexico, its town and its common resources.
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Constellation Brands Brewery Workers Seek Alternate Union
Workers in Obregón City, Sonora affiliated with Frente Unido Section 27, supported by SINAGA.
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Morena’s Magdalena Rosales Says Mexican Oil for Cuba Represents Essential Humanitarian Support
“We Mexicans stand in solidarity with the Cuban people, we stand in solidarity with all the peoples that the empire wants to crush.”
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Morena Legislators Defend Gradual 40 Hour Workweek, Lack of Two Days Off
Mexico’s 40 hour workweek will only come into effect in 2030, critics say the legislation opens the door to 12 hour workdays and reduced overtime pay.
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White House Commemorates War with Mexico as Origin of Military Power & Territorial Expansion
Donald Trump added humiliation to his diplomatic Donroe doctrine of subjugation, not cooperation.
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Mexico’s Proposed Workweek Law Promises Triple Overtime, but Fear Rules the Workplace
Dozens of consulted workers agree on a pattern: overtime is not negotiated, it is ordered and refusing it usually results in veiled threats, shift changes, pay cuts or disguised firings.
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Morena and Workers Party Deputies Create Mexico-Cuba Sisterhood Group
“Access to energy is not a luxury: it is a basic condition to guarantee health services, education, water supply, food production and the functioning of daily life.”
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A Migrant by Any Other Name is a Migrant
Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete lived in the US as an undocumented immigrant for 20 years. Now back in Mexico City, he’s a founder of Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior.
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“Historic Day” – Final Section of El Insurgente Train Inaugurated
The 57.7-kilometer journey between Mexico City and Toluca will take less than an hour and cost 100 pesos.
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San Quintín Workers Blockade, Sheinbaum Reprimands Morena Members: “Work more with the people!”
Farmworkers in the San Quintin Valley initiated a blockade to protest corruption in the San Quintin municipality prior to President Sheinbaum’s visit.
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Petróleo Mexicano para los Cubanos!
Solidarity protestors gathered outside of the former location of the Embassy of the United States on Reforma in Mexico City on Sunday, demanding that Mexico send oil to Cuba and expressing their disavowal of Trump’s recent assault on the island and its people.
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Mexican Anti-imperialist Front in Support of Venezuela Founded in Morelos
On February 7th, a national march for Venezuela will be held to demand the release of Maduro and Flores, and marches or rallies will take place in the capitals of each state.
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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Mexican oil for Cuba, the Pascual cooperative, negative view of US, Mexican gas dependence, US immigration policy, and Mexico City’s missing Utopias.
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Mexico City Protest Demands Mexico Continue Sending Oil to Cuba
The rally condemned US President Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba and decried the over 60 year old blockade against the island.
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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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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.