NEWS BRIEFS
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Workers Party says Mexican Musicians Betrayed
The PT says “lobbyists for the mega-corporations kept circling [Mexico’s cultural] commission like vultures,” and its President fell into the trap of Universal Music, Sony, & Warner.
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Mining Company in Zacatecas Used Drug Traffickers Against Workers, Mineros Union
A USMCA Rapid Response panel pointed out that Canadian company Orla Mining “remained silent and showed tolerance”; & also did not act on the complaints of violations of freedom of association nor investigate them.
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Mexico City Begins Construction of Housing in Guerrero & Historic Center
Five properties will house 250 homes; city authorities assure that the properties will be delivered by the end of this year.
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The USMCA is Causing a Decline in Mexican Agriculture
What can the phrase “Without corn, there is no country” mean when domestic corn production is on its last legs in the face of US dumping and the state’s inability to fight neoliberal free trade?
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The 20-year Plan Placing Work at the Center of Mexico City
The city government says strengthening union organization and defending labour rights will be the pillars shaping the policies and programs of all city agencies for the next two decades.
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Mexican Government Expands Free Internet Network
As of the end of February 2026, CFE’s infrastructure already reached a total of 109,431 points installed in various public spaces, strengthening access to digital services.
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“The world and history will judge the silence of nations in the face of these crimes”
Statement from the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mexico on President Trump’s threat of genocide.
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Senators Will Vote on Electronic Registration of Working Hours & 586,000 Peso Fines
The ruling to be analyzed in the Senate adds the electronic registration of the workday to the list of employer obligations.
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Mexico’s Agriculture & Economy Secretariats Pushing to Stop Labeling GMO & Toxic Pesticide Use in Food
Mexico’s Secretariat of Health was to have established mandatory labeling regulations a year and a half ago, but is in violation of the General Law. Critics point to industry interests.
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Using Tear Gas & Water Cannon, Tlaxcala State Police Disperse Farmers & Transporters Strike
The situation of FNRCM members in Tlaxcala is unknown. Meanwhile the state government announced that traffic has been restored on the roads.
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CDMX’s Brugada Announces Campaign to Increase Participatory Budgeting Participation
Mexico City’s upcoming Citizen Consultation on Participatory Budgeting will be held on Sunday, May 3.
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Mexico National Farmers Strike, Day 1
Driven by concerns over US crop dumping, monopoly profiteering, the decline of food sovereignty & insufficient state support, farmers have struck for the third in six months. Now transporters have joined.
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Ultra-right “Masculinity” Congress in Guadalajara
Promoted by government agencies in Jalisco, Guadalajara, and Zapopan and featuring a morbid roster of misogynists, reactionaries & former boy band singer; the expensive two day event has drawn criticism.
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Mexico’s National Farmers Strike Begins Today in 20 States
Organizers considered the government’s has no interest in resolving the agricultural crisis, and balked at the demand that they not hold any demonstrations during this year’s World Cup.
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Mexico’s Unpaid & Exploited Gas Station Attendants
Slave-like working conditions and numerous abuses persist; while the majority of workers lack employment contracts, wages, social security, and benefits.
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Mexico Imports Record Amount of Corn From US
Despite this multi-billion dollar business, the US Trade Representative continues to assert a series of non-tariff barriers prevent the free access of genetically modified corn to Mexican territory.
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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Camino Rojo union busting, Mexican lithium, sex workers & the World Cup, ICE deaths, national farmers strike, and mining sacrifice zones.
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President Sheinbaum: Unlikely the Right Wing Will Return to Power in Mexico
The Mexican President indicated that the financial outlook is positive for the country, which demonstrates the viability of its economic model.
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EZLN: The Nation-state No Longer Has Decision Making Power
“Sovereignty is a bad joke. They can’t say that Mexico is sovereign, even if they say so on the Mañanera, if it can’t even decide whether to send oil to Cuba.”
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Social Programs Will Cushion Impact of Global Chaos in 2026: Mexico’s Finance Secretary
By 2026, social program spending will reach nearly one trillion pesos, with the goal of sustaining the well-being of the majority of families.
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Six Months of the Nacional Monte de Piedad Strike
While acknowledging that it has been difficult, trade unionist Miguel Ángel Pérez Ramírez affirmed that workers remain committed to fighting to defend & uphold their labour rights.
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Oaxaca’s 3rd Forum in Defense of Territory and Social Property: April 15 in Santa María Atzompa
The call comes in a context of concern about legislative reforms that put the rights of Indigenous and agrarian communities at risk.
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Cananea Miners Over 60 Receive Monthly Payments of 9,500 Pesos
The money is part of the Justice Plan for Cananea, which aims to provide a measure of justice to workers who had been striking for 18 years.
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Menstruation & Workplace Discrimination
Although Mexico’s Federal Labour Law does not yet consider menstrual leave, four states do have menstrual leave for women workers.
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High Oil & Fertilizer Prices are Impacting Mexican Agriculture
Research professor Gerardo Noriega says the cost of armed and trade wars has hit Mexican agricultural producers hard.
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Court Denies Injunction Against Puebla Cablebus
The judge determined the NGOs did not provide sufficient evidence to prove environmental damage.
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Mexico Will Bring Death of Mexicans in ICE custody in US Before IACHR
Mexico will not limit itself to a diplomatic note in the face of these serious events, President Sheinbaum indicated.
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SINTTIA Denounces Fraenkische for Collective Bargaining Violations
Workers detected excessive payroll deductions and anomalies in the savings fund at the German company.
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April 6th Transport & Farmers Strike Will Go Ahead
The National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside said although there is communication with federal authorities, “dialogue does not resolve anything if there are no decisive actions.”
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Organizations Urge Mexico to Resume Crude Oil Shipments to Cuba
The humanitarian aid approach proposed by the Mexican government “is certainly necessary, but without the possibility of oil trade, it is merely a small palliative.”
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In San Quintín, Agricultural Workers Pick for Northern Profit
Early morning starts, picking a kind of modern “red gold” that grows in the south of Baja California.
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Strengthening Tornel Workers’ Strike Fund, Promoting Work Stoppages & Coordinating Solidarity are Urgent Tasks
With four workers shot and an intransigent employer, the union needs widespread solidarity.
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Network in Defense of Corn Warns of Risk to Mexico’s Native Seeds
Communities spoke out against seed ownership systems and policies that promote land privatization and commodification, warning that these measures affect autonomy and community organization.
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Second Suspect in Attack on Striking Tornel Workers Prosecuted
What began as a workers’ protest escalated into an armed attack against those protecting the movement, with four workers shot.
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Nine Out of Ten Agricultural Workers in San Quintín, Baja California Don’t Have Social Security
“The separation between landowners, agricultural companies, and transnational corporations, combined with the multiple levels of labor intermediation, creates an extremely complicated context for workers.”
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Domestic Work: Social Security Earned, Compliance Pending
In Mexico, approximately 2.3 million people are engaged in domestic work, but incorporation into social security is stagnant and even has registered a slight decline since 2023.
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SITGM & Goodyear Reach Agreement on Wage Increase
The union secured a 5.8 percent wage increase for more than a thousand workers at the San Luis Potosí plant.
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Workers Party Senator Proposes Ban on Terms Human Resources and Human Capital in Businesses
“We are witnessing how language reflects a logic in which the primary value of people lies in their ability to generate profit,” Senator Alejandro González Yáñez said.
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Working Amidst Poverty; Life in San Quintín
Despite the more than 10 billion pesos in annual production generated by large, technologically advanced agricultural fields, farmworkers live on unpaved streets, without streetlights or public transportation; their homes lack electricity, water, and drainage.
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President Sheinbaum Champions Women Ejido Members & Communal Landowners
The President’s goal for her six-year term is to distribute 150,000 property titles to women ejido members and communal landowners.
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Families of Missing Persons Request Meeting with President Sheinbaum After Release of Disappearances Data
Families expressed their concern about an update to Mexico’s National Registry which “prioritizes administrative management over the reality of families on the ground.”
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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Mexico’s new film law, Langston Hughes, disappearances, Nuestra América convoy, evictions, deportees, and the trade spat with China.
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Mexican External Relations Secretariat Demands US Investigate Death of Mexican Citizen in ICE Custody
14 Mexican citizens have lost their lives in ICE custody or in immigration operations during President Donald Trump’s second term.
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Mexican Navy Locates Two Sailboats Carrying Aid to Cuba
“The convoy is still en route to complete its mission: to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to the Cuban people,” said Nuestra America’s spokesman, who thanked Mexican and Cuban authorities for their “support, coordination and professionalism.”
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“Off with their Event!” Private Parque Lira Party Pulverized
Facing organized opposition from neighbours, social concern over creeping privatization of public parks & increased city scrutiny, the company producing an Alice in Wonderland event has canceled it.
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Mexican Navy Searching for Nuestra América Convoy Sailboats in Caribbean en Route to Cuba
The two vessels, carrying humanitarian aid and nine crew members, set sail on March 20th from Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo and were scheduled to arrive between March 24th and 25th.
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Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional Workers to Strike Tomorrow
In February, workers held a symbolic strike, demanding an end to reprisals and labor exploitation, as well as the payment of fair wages.
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US Military Illegally Entered Mexico in Nogales, Sonora
This follows a November 2025 incident when US military contractors installed “restricted area” signs on Playa Bagdad in Tamaulipas, Mexico claiming it as US Department of Defense property.
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Cities Without Drainage, Homes Without Water: the Complex Reality of Mexico
96.1% of the Mexican population has access to drinking water and 95.2% to sewage systems, but that doesn’t mean Mexicans receive sufficient, potable, or continuous water, nor does it mean all sanitation systems are functional.
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China Says it has Right to Take Retaliatory Measures Over Mexico’s Anti-China Tariffs
The tariffs, announced by Mexico in December, were seen by analysts as an attempt to placate the United States, whose President levied significant tariffs on Chinese goods.
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Striking Workers at Tornel Rubber Call for Government Intervention
The union stressed the urgency of addressing the conflict since, in addition to fearing further attacks, more than 2,000 families & over 20,000 indirect jobs are affected by the company’s intransigence.
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UAW Condemns Violent Attack on Tornel Rubber Workers in Mexico, Urges Action
The US-based autoworkers union called for immediate protection for Tornel workers and their families, as well as a public condemnation of the attack by Mexican authorities and industry leaders.
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Strike Ends at Colegio de Bachilleres After Agreement with Workers
Closing 20 campuses and road blocks throughout Mexico City and Mexico state brought management back to the table to secure an agreement for the education workers union SINTCB.
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Hit & Run: Tornel Rubber Company Didn’t Attend Labour Conciliation Hearing
On March 18, striking workers on the picket line at a Tornel Rubber plant were attacked by an armed shock group of over sixty men. Four workers were shot.
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President Sheinbaum Insists US Eliminate Tariffs on Cars, Steel & Aluminum
The Mexican President said that lowering or eliminating tariffs is part of the discussion with the US, but not yet reflected in reality.
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Mexico’s Workweek Reform Leaves Door Open to 56 Hour Workweeks
Once the 40-hour work week is implemented, the workday may be longer as long as the new limits established are not exceeded and the corresponding payment is made.
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President Sheinbaum on Cuba: “No to invasion, no to a violent solution”
The President of Mexico reiterated her position on the US’ blockade against Cuba. No fuel shipments from Mexico to Cuba have been announced.
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CDMX’s Brugada Initiates First of 100 Utopias
The Utopias are publicly owned community centres which seeks to bring recreational, cultural, health, and wellness services closer to the population.
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Monte de Piedad Union Stands Firm: “Dignity is not negotiable”
“[Management’s] main objective is to preserve the exorbitant salaries they have never been willing to make transparent,” said the SNTNMP’s General Secretary.
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The President of Mexico Who Spied for the CIA
More than six decades later, recently released CIA documents related to the JFK assassination conjure a scene that does not fit within the rhetoric of sovereignty.
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Goodyear San Luis Potosí Strike Ends with 5.8% Salary Increase
Despite the agreement, the Federal Labour complaint will go forward, as it relates to alleged violations of the Contract Law and individual rights of workers.
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Anti-World Cup Protests Announced for Mexico vs Portugal Match at Estadio Azteca
The protest against water privatization related to the FIFA tournament will take place on March 28th at the friendly match.
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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press including Cuba solidarity convoy sails from Mexico, CNTE 72 hour strike, Tornel workers shooting, USMCA dependency, ICE deaths, FEMSA cuts, PEMEX-Petrobras collab, & refinery fire.
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México te Abraza Program has Repatriated 189,830 Mexicans
“Mexico is your home and we will always receive you with dignity and respect. Your country awaits you with open arms, and with all the services and programs to help you start over,” Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez assured.
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Colegio de Bachilleres Union Will Close Roads in CDMX & Mexico State
“It is not the union’s fault, but rather the intransigence of the authorities of this institution who have violated the provisions of our Collective Bargaining Agreement,” a union rep said.
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President Lula Offers Petrobras-PEMEX Alliance for Gulf of Mexico Exploration
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva referenced the South American company’s experience in deep-water operations in his offer to Mexican President Sheinbaum.
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CNTE Strike Day 3: Teachers vs Privatized Pensions
Photos of the Mexican teachers actions at private banks in Mexico City which manage workers pensions, whether anyone wants them to or not.
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CNTE Teachers Will Protest at Privatized Pension Companies
Today is the third and final day of the 72-hour teachers strike.