NEWS BRIEFS
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‘School by School’ There Will Be Direct Dialogue With Teachers, Not Only With Union Leadership: Sheinbaum
Starting in August, the federal government will consult Mexico’s teachers school by school, bypassing union leaderships, on the elimination of Ussicamm and its alternative.
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CNTE Agrees to Mobilize to the Estadio Ciudad de México During World Cup Inauguration
After failed negotiations with the federal government on ISSSTE pensions, the CNTE teachers union will march to the Estadio Azteca during the World Cup opening.
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Hundreds Enter the Zócalo Fan Fest After Opening Announcement; There Are Long Lines
Hundreds of fans line up on Madero and Simón Bolívar streets to enter the Zócalo Fan Fest, passing CNTE protest tents along the way to the World Cup opening event.
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With Violent Acts, They Seek to ‘Stage’ an Image of Chaos in Mexico: Sheinbaum
President Sheinbaum says recent violent acts during teacher protests aim to stage an image of chaos in Mexico, linking the strategy to Salinas Pliego.
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More Than a War, During Felipe Calderón’s Six-Year Term They Allied with the ‘Narco’: Sheinbaum
President Claudia Sheinbaum accused Felipe Calderón’s government of colluding with the Sinaloa cartel, pointing to the García Luna corruption cases as evidence.
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Mexico’s Exports to the United States Grew 21.1% in April
Mexico’s exports to the U.S. grew 21.1% year-on-year in April, with Mexico holding firm as Washington’s top trading partner ahead of July USMCA talks.
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Authorities Seize 59 Homemade Explosives on Bus Bound for CNTE Solidarity March
Federal and Mexico City authorities seized 59 homemade explosives on a bus carrying students and teachers to a CNTE solidarity march, the Secretary of Interior says.
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CNTE Warns Sheinbaum: Meet Our Demands or We Protest at World Cup Inauguration
With 48 hours to go before the FIFA World Cup opens, the CNTE warns Sheinbaum: meet our pension demands or we will protest at the inauguration.
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‘QRGate’: the PRI’s New Vote-Buying Scheme in Coahuila
Morena says the PRI ran a vote-buying scheme in Coahuila’s Sunday election, with voters paid via QR codes after photographing their marked ballots.
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June 7 Had 28 Homicides, the Day With Fewest Killings in the Last Decade: Security Cabinet
Mexico’s Security Cabinet says June 7 saw 28 homicides, the country’s lowest daily total in a decade. It beats the previous record of 29 set on May 15.
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Public Insurer is the Way to Meet CNTE Demands; 2007 ISSSTE Law Can’t Disappear ‘Overnight,’ Batres Says
Mexican officials offered a gradual path on teachers’ pension demands: full repeal would cost 7 trillion pesos (20% of GDP), so Pensionissste will grow progressively, with August consultations feeding next session’s bill.
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Sheinbaum Drives the First Mexican Electric Vehicle: Olinia 1 to Sell for 150,000 Pesos
Sheinbaum took the wheel at the debut of the Olinia 1, a plug-in with 125 km range that goes on sale next summer as Mexico’s bet on building its own electric vehicle.
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Historic Profit-Sharing of 1.5 Million Pesos for Each Worker at Peñasquito, Mexico’s Second-Largest Mine
Mexico’s Mining Union wins the largest profit-share in the country’s mining history: 1.5 million pesos for each of Peñasquito’s 2,000 workers.
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Michoacán Congress to Reconsider President Sheinbaum’s “Golden Pension” Reduction Reform
Workers and retirees believe the reduction in pensions violate acquired rights.
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Mexico Must Define a Position For Its Relationship with the US & China: Enrique Dussel Peters
Mexican elites have for decades failed to keep pace with the global changes involving China.
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Mexico’s Host Cities for 2026 World Cup Will Suffer More Economic Losses Than Benefits
12 billion USD in infrastructure investment for an economic impact of 3 billion USD. Meanwhile an opaque agreement with FIFA means big tax breaks for FIFA & foreign corporations.
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Guerrero Teachers Injured in Mexico City Strike Repression Campaigned for Sheinbaum, AMLO
Proceso Columbo González González lost his eye from a rubber bullet reportedly fired by Mexico City riot police, while Octavio Romero was struck in the face with a metal rod.
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Former President AMLO: “The Trump of today is different from the one I dealt with”
Mexico’s former President has released a statement on US attacks on Mexico, only his second political statement since the end of his term, accusing US official of plotting to “weaken Morena.”
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Marches & Blockades by Thousands of Teachers in at Least 10 Mexican States
Teachers are demanding the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE and 1997 IMSS laws; as well as the repeal of Peña Nieto’s 2012 education reform and salary increases.
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The Return of Fox & Calderón Exposes Mexican Far Right’s Misguided Path
The Mexican right is going through a crisis, increasingly closer to international far-right sectors and further from a political proposal capable of competing.
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President Sheinbaum Calls on US Ambassador to Limit Himself to Bilateral Coordination & Collaboration
Ambassador Ronald Johnson is a former Green Beret and CIA agent.
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What Are Mexico’s Striking Teachers of the CNTE Demanding?
The teachers’ national strike centers around demands to end the privatized pensions built on the Pinochet model, a dignified retirement, & for President Sheinbaum to keep her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law.
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President Sheinbaum’s 2nd Election Anniversary Speech
Remarks delivered at Mexico City’s Monument to the Revolution by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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CNTE Blocking Zirahuén Toll Booth After Murder of Teacher in Michoacán
The blockade is in response to the murder of teacher Felipe de Jesús Martínez and the serious injuries of another, Adelaida Zacarías Pascual, after an attack in Pómaro yesterday.
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State of Mexico Allocates Over 611 Million Pesos in Free Transportation Subsidies for Vulnerable Groups
This scheme of free fares and free transfers serves as a tool to support the family economy of vulnerable groups.
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Working Poverty in Mexico Will Fall to 30.7% in 2026
This figure represents a decrease of 3.2 percentage points compared to the same period of the previous year, according to INEGI.
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Missing Striking Teachers from CNTE Found in Chiapas; Prosecutor’s Office Investigates Alleged Extortion
The teachers were found only one day after a Morena mayor organized a shock group which shot at striking teachers and kidnapped 15 of them in neighbouring Oaxaca.
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The World Cup of Gentrification
Publicly-subsidized, privately profitable: FIFA’s grotesque spectacle of graft, corruption & recreational consumption for ultra-wealthy parasites threatens the livelihoods and wellbeing of Mexico City residents.
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Lawfirm Linked to PAN & American Asset Management Firm Grey Catalyst Promoting US Interference in Mexico
The LLM-saturated León Barrena Rodríguez & Partners account spreads rumours & innuendo via its X account.
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Chiapas, Governed by Morena, Seeks Security Cooperation with israel
Neighbouring Oaxaca, also governed by Morena, made news last year for ordering assault rifles from israeli weapons manufacturer IWI.
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Corporate Vandals: Companies Indiscriminately Saturate Neighbourhoods Around World Cup Venue with Advertising
Disgruntled residents pointed out that the area has lost its sense of community and now resembles an “advertising corridor”.
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Morena Mayor who Organized Shock Group That Shot at & Kidnapped Striking Teachers in Oaxaca Resigns
The attack by the mayor of San Pablo Villa de Mitla sparked outrage among teachers’ unions & the local Congress, who were already demanding his removal and an immediate arrest warrant.
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United Steelworkers Request Canadian Criminal Intervention Against Orla Mining
The USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism confirmed union meetings and workers were targeted and threated by armed individuals.
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Morena Mayor Organized Armed Group Which Shot at CNTE Teachers in Oaxaca
The teachers agreed to move to the side of the road and allow free passage, asking for time to do so. The mayor’s companions, who were carrying high-caliber weapons, began to shoot.
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Morena Spokesperson Distances Deputies from Support for Raul Castro, Cuba Solidarity Group
Morena’s parliamentary spokesperson, Arturo Ávila, who owns a weapons company that sells armoured vehicles to Bukele & trains with israeli weapons manufacturers, said the solidarity statement was not an official position of all Morena deputies.
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Mexico City Deputies Unanimously Approve Care System Law
More than three million people in Mexico City require care due to life stage, disability, or dependency: unpaid work in this area is equivalent to approximately 12% of GDP.
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200,000 Mexican “Dreamers” at Risk of Deportation
Changes and delays in procedures implemented by the Trump administration put them at risk, according to Mexico’s External Relations Secretariat.
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INEGI: Mexican Job Insecurity Increased in First Quarter 2026, Informal Employment Rate 54.78%
Mexico’s employed population increased by 551,651 in Q1, the lowest creation since 2011, but it was entirely informal.
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Trump’s Migrant ID Restrictions Could Curb Remittances: IBERO Specialist
After more than a decade of sustained growth, remittance flows to Mexico in 2025 saw their first decrease due to increasingly restrictive conditions for migrants in the US.
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The Origins of Cruz Azul
Once the workers took control of the factory, they began to seek the development of well-being, and that is how the group of cooperatives was created and with it the town of Jasso.
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Cruz Azul Cooperative Expands Production Plant; Expects 17% Growth in 2026
The cement producer has been a workers cooperative since 1931, when Hidalgo Governor Bartolomé Vargas Lugo expropriated it.
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CNTE Sets Up Indefinite Sit-in in Mexico City After Riot Police Tear Gas Teachers
Teachers are demanding that President Sheinbaum keep her campaign promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law.
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Shadowy, Well-Funded Group Close to Billionaire Salinas Pliego is Challenging Fourth Transformation with Flash Mobs
Mexicanos al grito de paz has promoted campaigns against President Claudia Sheinbaum in recent weeks.
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Río Sonora Basin Committees Accuse Grupo México & Government of Trying to Close Toxic Spill Issue
Grupo México failed to clean-up one of the worst environmental disasters in Mexico’s history, while a government complaint pertaining to it was withdrawn after closed door meetings which failed to consult affected communities.
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CDMX’ Brugada Inaugurates Utopia “La Heróica” with Senior Citizens Day Center
The Mexico City mayor has been heavily criticized in recent months for a backlog in Utopia construction and a preference for painting everything lavender.
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Tornel Strike Resolution Hinges on 40 Hour Workweek & Tornel’s Legal Obligations
The tire plant strike attracted international attention after four workers were shot during a mid-March attack on the picket line by a shockgroup of over 60.
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Zapatistas: FIFA is a Shithole, Reality in Mexico Prevails Over Frivolous, Superficial World Cup
Captain Marcos decried the “Trumpist FIFA, which pretends to give lessons in morality and good customs.”
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Organizations Reject Mexican Government Meeting with Tobacco Industry
Meeting with an industry that “only seeks to sell its products and make profits at the expense of the health and lives of its consumers,” is contradictory and dangerous.
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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.”