SOBERANÍA 60: CALDERÓN’S EX ‘TOP COP’ ON HOOK FOR BILLIONS
Brother, can you spare $2.4 billion? In a coup for Mexico’s Financial Investigation’s Unit, a Florida court has found Felipe Calderon’s former Security Minister and his wife guilty of embezzling funds from the state. Kurt and José Luis have the full rundown of what it means and the precedent it sets. Also, the dissident sections of the federal teachers’ union, known as the CNTE, are out on strike: how to handle labor actions under a progressive government? We’ll have the nuanced, contextualized discussion you won’t find anywhere else in English. And this coming Sunday, June 1st, Mexico will make history by holding its first-ever judicial elections. In two waves, Mexican voters will be electing not only the Supreme Court but the entire federal judiciary, and conservative voices in and out of the country are up in arms. Finally, in a collective “losers and haters,” a compilation of voices calling to boycott these very elections, continuing an anti-electoral streak for the Mexican right which also includes the nation’s first referendum in 2021 and the recall election called by AMLO in 2022 in fulfillment of a key campaign promise.
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People’s Mañanera June 23
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference with comments on gasoline prices, education reforms, post-secondary education, attacks on Iran and Palestine, PEMEX, and the three guiding principles of the Fourth Transformation.
Unpunished Destruction
Canadian mining company Equinox Gold has been extracting gold from Guerrero for decades. Now it wants to close the Los Filos mine, leaving behind environmental degradation, exploitation and emiseration, while pocketing big profits.
Clicks June 22
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including GM workers voting on union membership, Canadian mining crimes, upcoming women’s conference, the long drive to the 40 hour workweek, Trump admin plans for counterinsurgency in Mexico, the attack on Iran, Sheinbaum at G7, ICE custody deaths and microfinance bankruptcy.