NEWS BRIEFS
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Nayarit State Beaches Recovered: Stolen by Ex-Governors
Former PRI Governors Ney González and Roberto Sandoval stole 9 million square meters of coastline.
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Campesinos Demand Halt to Attorney General’s Investigation Into Farmers Strike Blockades
Farmers had planned to block customs & international bridges a week prior, but decided against it to avoid retaliation from the US government.
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Migrants Ask Sheinbaum to Strengthen Consular Protection Amid US Migration Crisis
More than 100 organizations in the US and Mexico expressed their deep concern about the growing vulnerability faced by Mexican communities in the US.
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Over 11,000 Labour Complaints Registered on Mexico’s New Platform
The most frequent complaints filed by workers in Mexico concern unpaid wages, minimum wage, Christmas bonus, working hours, partial or non-payment of profit sharing.
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Tribute to ex-Governor Rubén Figueroa Sparks Criticism for Role in Guerrero’s Dirty War
A Sunday tribute by the Morena state government to the murderous architect of the state’s Dirty War, responsible for thousands of deaths & disappearances, has provoked a furious response.
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Morena Needs to be Much More Critical, says Citlalli Hernández Regarding Carlos Manzo Case
The head of the Women’s Secretariat, called on Morena to “further strengthen our analysis and criticism.”
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CELAC-EU Summit Makes Vague Gesture Against Use of Force, No Rejection of US Attacks
The joint declaration took 12 hours of deliberation.
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First Units in CDMX Affordable Social Housing Program Will be Ready in 2026
By the end of Clara Brugada’s 6-year term, in 2030, there will be 20,000 new units available for youth under 35.
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INEHRM: Spain’s Allusion to Pain Caused by Colonization “would be better if it were bigger & more explicit”
Finally, a Spanish official “dared to make that public acknowledgment,” said Felipe Ávila of Mexico’s National Historical Institute.
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Mexico’s Ban on Outsourcing Revealed Massive Profit-Sharing Evasion
For years, corporations in Mexico used outsourcing to evade financial obligations to workers, pocketing tens of billions, until a 2021 outsourcing ban closed their lucrative, exploitative loophole.
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Clicks November 8
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including Mexico City’s Utopias, Guanajuato corruption, Peru vs Mexico, anti-eviction reform, national farmers strike, fraudulent assassination plot against israel ambassador, and violence in Michoacán.
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Mexican Senate Backs Sheinbaum in Diplomatic Conflict with Peru; Rogers Waters Celebrates Chávez Asylum
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters heralded President Claudia Sheinbaum for granting political asylum to Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez.
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Normalistas: The “Gen Z March” is Being Promoted by the Right Wing
Students from rural teachers colleges demanded a meeting with the Secretary of the Interior to address violence against them, but rejected the Gen Z march in Mexico City on November 15th as a plot deriving from right wing hatred.
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Six Structural Barriers Hinder Gender Equality in Mexican Workplaces
Equality is not a concession or a favor, it is an act of justice. As long as women’s work remains invisible, there will be no economic justice.
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November is a Key Month for Work Week Reduction Reform
90 years ago, the ILO defined the 40 hour workweek as an international standard. Mexico still has, in 2025, a 48 hour workweek, one of the longest in the world.
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REMA Rejects Canadian Mining Corporations’ “Sustainable Mining” Standards as Sham
The organization stated the new standard promoted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico is a self-assessment mechanism covering up socio-environmental violations & favouring impunity for Canadian corporations.
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Supreme Court Denies TV Azteca & Grupo Elektra Request to Postpone Tax Trials
The companies, owned by notorious tax scofflaw Ricardo Salinas Pliego, requested a postponement of the rulings while the Tax Service “adjusts” debts. The court also dismissed motions to recuse Justices Batres, Esquivel, & Ortiz.
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Mexican Foreign Ministry: Peru Breaking Relations is a Disproportionate Action
The Peruvian government is obligated to allow former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez to leave the country if Mexico, which granted her asylum, requests it.
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Trump is Testing Plan to Send Troops to Mexico, According to NBC
CIA agents would also be part of the operation.
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Sheinbaum: “Vultures” on the Right are Calling for a Return to the War on Drugs
Mexico’s President commented that, “Justice is the only way to build peace and security, social justice where there is zero impunity. That is why the judiciary was reformed.”
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CFE: In Mexico, 295,000 People Live Without Electricity
Mexico’s public energy utility aims to ensure that 4,473 communities, primarily in rural areas, Indigenous communities and marginalized urban areas, will have electrical services by the end of 2028.
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President Sheinbaum Celebrates Day of the Dead with National Palace Offering
“We honor those who cared for the cornfields, those who healed with herbs, those who told stories under the moon, those who defended their land and dignity,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared.
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Clicks November 1
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including Coca Cola Christmas propaganda, Acapulco airstrikes, Trump’s plans for Mexico, ICE deaths, the Sheinbaum method, cempasuchil under threat, and Indigenous autonomy.
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Grupo México Loses Appeal to End Strike at San Martín Mine
Los Mineros obtained a new ruling in its favor so that the mine in Sombrerete, Zacatecas, can continue a strike that has already lasted 18 years.
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Corn Producers Maintain 12 Blockades in 5 States
Mexico’s farmers strike has not ended, as the government has only negotiated with certain producers over issues such as a low price for corn which benefits monopolies and the destruction of food sovereignty initiated by free trade with the US.
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Spain Acknowledges “Pain & Injustice” Caused to Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs made the acknowledgement, a first for Spain, at the inauguration of the exhibition “Half the World: Women in Indigenous Mexico” in Madrid.
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Orders Canadian Mining Corp to Pay $2.8 Billion Tax Bill
Primero Empresa Minera, a subsidiary of the Canadian company First Majestic Silver Corp, have previously been fined by the Court for using a procedural trick to prolong the case.
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Mexico Denounces US’ Continued Disregard for Will of Majority at UN Discussion of Cuban Blockade
Mexico’s permanent representative to the UN, Héctor Vasconcelos, reaffirmed Mexico’s historic support for the island, stressing that unilateral sanctions threaten peace & development.
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US Again Attacks Alleged Traffickers in Eastern Pacific
The attack comes only hours after President Sheinbaum said Mexico had requested the US coordinate with the Mexican Navy to arrest, and not murder, suspected traffickers.
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Civil Society Orgs Demand Action on Soda Health Crisis at Mexico’s Senate
Large multinational corporations have accumulated exorbitant profits at the expense of the health of millions of Mexican families. While their profits grow, the rest of society must cover the damage.
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Corn Producers: Agreement with Government Only Partially Meets Demands
Producers did not agree to formalize the base price of 5,200 pesos offered by the government in this most recent national agricultural strike.
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President Sheinbaum Instructs CONAGUA to Halt Mining Waste Concessions
Mexico’s National Water Commission had attempted to reverse a 2023 decision former President AMLO had made expressly prohibiting mining companies disposing of highly toxic waste in waterways.
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US Ambassador Called to Mexican Foreign Ministry to Address Violent Attack on Alleged ‘Drug Boat’ in Eastern Pacific
President Sheinbaum called for the meeting this morning, “to review this situation,” stating the Mexican government does “not agree with how these attacks are taking place.”
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Grain Producers Reject Government Offer: “It doesn’t cover costs.”
Amigos por el Campo pointed out that Altagracia Gómez as president of one of Mexico’s corn monopolies & a key advisor to President Sheinbaum, might contribute to the government’s unwillingness to resolve the dispute.
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High School Teachers Demonstrate, Demand Salary Equalization
Outside Mexico’s National Palace, they called on the federal government to “not fall into the game of passing the buck”, for President Sheinbaum to listen & comply with their 2023 agreement or they would implement a national work stoppage.
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Farmers Hold National Strike, 17 States Face Roadblocks
Mexico’s Peasant Agricultural Movement & National Union of Agricultural Workers deployed throughout the country for the second time in as many weeks, demanding the government set a minimum price on corn and end the destruction of their livelihoods caused by decades of free trade.
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CNTE Teachers Thwart Right Wing Party Assembly
Teachers from Valles Centrales disrupted a political event orchestrated for a new party being formed by ex-governor of Oaxaca Ulises Ruiz Ortiz , responsible for repression against teachers in 2006 which led to 20 murders & multiple disappearances.
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Mexico Launches Deforestation-Free Avocado Export Program
The new program will also move to regularize employment conditions for agricultural workers, along them to access social security benefits.
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Clicks October 25
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including US businessmen & fuel theft rings, Mexico’s most hated politicians, Plan Mexico, USMCA negotiations, blocked Tulum Hotel & an Old Mexican Bolshevik.
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AIFA Will Double in Size, Become Mexico’s Main Airport
One of the signature projects of the AMLO administration, the airport will be served by the new Suburban Train, bringing passengers from Mexico City to the airport in less than 45 minutes.
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II Prepares Ambitious Plan to Promote Reading for Latin American Youth
2.5 million books with 25 titles aimed at people between 15 & 30 will be given away to promote Latin American literature, explained the director of Mexico’s state publishing house.
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National Campesino Confederation Anticipates Agriculture Budget Cuts
Members of the CNC attended the Listening to the Voices of the Field forum at Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies to address their concerns about the budget directly to legislators
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National Institute of Migration Dissolves Migrant Caravan in Oaxaca; Arrives in CDMX with Visas
The exodus left Mexico’s southern border after reporting that their asylum applications took months, even more than a year, and that they didn’t have the necessary resources to wait.
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National Institute of Indigenous Peoples & Afro-Mexican Communities Agree on Comprehensive, Just Development Path
The plan will begin to fulfill Mexico’s Constitutional mandate to guarantee the effective exercise of the rights of Afro-Mexican peoples.
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CONAGUA Wants Mining Industry to be Allowed to Dump Toxic Waste into Rivers
Mexico’s National Water Commission is pushing for the mining industry to be allowed to dump toxic waste into rivers, despite President Sheinbaum’s stated environmental objective to clean up contaminated tributaries.
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Mexican Import of White Corn, Used for Dough & Tortillas, Quadruples
2025 will close with record levels of imports, with most of the grain coming from the US, along with genetically modified yellow corn.
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USMCA is “dead, it no longer exists.”
UNAM’s Enrique Dussel Peters warned that it will be replaced by an American tactic of bilateral blackmail & that if Mexico unilaterally imposes tariffs on China, Mexico “is heading towards a dead end”
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Mexico Goverment Will Provide Aid to Families Affected by Flooding
Starting Wednesday, a distribution of 20 thousand pesos will begin to families registered by the Secretariat of Wellbeing in the five affected states.
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Mexico City Trains 100 Officers Against Dispossession
The program seeks to provide Public Prosecutors with legal tools to more effectively handle cases of dispossession, which is an ongoing issue related to the gentrification of the city.
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Clicks October 19
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including Sheinbaum to skip Summit of the Americas, Cuba & Venezuela aid Mexico after floods, farmers strike against USMCA, Tina Modotti, Coca Cola politics, and USMCA and unions.
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Mexican Senators Propose Pay Transparency
Senators highlight that without salary transparency, it’s virtually impossible to file a claim for unfair pay, thus perpetuating the gender pay gap.
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Sheinbaum: USMCA Won’t Affect Diesel Sales to Cuba
Sheinbaum also highlighted agreements for Cuban doctors to care for the vulnerable Mexican population, which she described as transparent and beneficial.
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Mexican Government & Soft Drink Monopolies Agree to Reduce Soda Tax
The reduction was announced after representatives from different parties complained about pressure from lobbyists to avoid imposing the tax on light beverages.
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President Sheinbaum on US Operations in Venezuela
Mexico’s President responded to news the US is utilizing the CIA to target Venezuela, after murdering dozens in the Caribbean over the past month and a half.
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Mexican Journalist from Global Sumud Flotilla Responds to US Deputy Secretary of State Landau
The former diplomat and US government’s self-proclaimed Visa Remover has been reduced to spending his last few years on earth as a virtual hall monitor.
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Palestinian Ambassador Demands Economic Sanctions & Arms Embargo on israel
The Hague must prosecute war crimes: ending genocide is not enough, she points out in Mexico’s Senate.
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16 Proposals for 40 Hour Workweek in Chamber of Deputies
With nothing coming from the President, proposals for a 40 hour work week continue to emerge in the Chamber of Deputies, along with calls to stop postponing the debate.
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Threats, Lobbying, & Manipulation: Coca Cola Pulls Out Arsenal to Fight Tax
Soft drink companies, with the help of front groups, have been spreading false information and denying scientific evidence about the harm their products cause, in an attempt to stop an upcoming tax.
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Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba ends with Demand to end Genocidal Blockade, Support for Venezuela
This article by Emir Olivares Alonso originally appeared in the October 13, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. Dozens of delegates from 35 countries demanded that the United States government and Congress end the “genocidal” economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. In the final declaration of the Ninth Continental…
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Anti-Corruption Secretariat Sanctions Pharma Corps Impromed & Total Farma
The companies will be barred from entering into contracts with federal, state, and municipal government agencies for a year and a half.
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SME Asks Supreme Court to Review Decree Disbanding Luz y Fuerza Electrical Utility
Marking the 16th anniversary of former President Felipe Calderón’s order to abolish the utility, electrical union members claim it violated their human and labour rights.
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CDMX’ Brugada Delivers Report on First Year in Office
Mexico City’s head of government announced before the capital’s Congress the submission of five initiatives on care, gender, and security in her first Informe.
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Clicks October 12
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including Sheinbaum’s big Zocalo speech, CDMX head Brugada, Mexicans of Global Sumud Flotilla, neoliberalism, pesticide lobbyists, USMCA, and Cuban Solidarity.
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Touchy “Alito” & His Mysterious Fortune
PRI President & Senator Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas is accused of illicit enrichment, embezzlement, misuse of powers, tax fraud, and money laundering; and is acutely sensitive to questions about his wealth.
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9th Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba Opens in Mexico City
More than 250 delegates from 23 countries attended the opening ceremony, where they expressed their support for the Cuban Revolution and solidarity with Palestine.
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Sheinbaum Coordinates Action to Address Rain Emergency
5,400 personnel, and state and civil protection protocols were activated to assist affected populations across Mexico.
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2026 Budget Requires “Re-engineering” to Address Urgent Social Issues
At a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies’ Budget Committee, the inadequacy of forensic personnel was highlighted.
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Sheinbaum: Boluarte Became Peru’s President Through a Coup
President Sheinbaum expressed her solidarity with Pedro Castillo, still imprisoned by the coup government.