Soberanía 66: Trump Budget Declares War on Migrants
$178 billion: the amount allocated to immigration enforcement in Trump’s recently passed budget. In this episode of “Soberanía,” Kurt and José Luis analyze the implications of such a colossal figure in the context of a disastrous budget that strips away social protections to shower even more benefits on the wealthy while ratcheting up the punitive state. Also: former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto reemerges on the public scene in a fitting way: enmeshed in another corruption scandal. Will this tip the hand of the federal government to finally prosecute him? Anti-gentrification demonstrations come to Mexico City and, in our “Losers and Haters” segment, some particularly inappropriate comments about said protests.
Economy Secretariat Holds Social Economy Meeting for Mexican Cooperatives
This meeting between the Mexican government and cooperatives responds to a strong demand from Mexico’s social economic sector to be heard and taken into account.
People’s Mañanera July 29
President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on house-to-house healthcare, new hospitals and clinics, operating room renovations, Fundación Azteca, measles, pharmaceutical purchases, auto industy, INE sanctions, and the new Mexico City Cablebús.
Mexican Government Reviews Working Conditions in Public Media
The President ruled out any financial problems or a lack of resources to pay workers’ salaries, refering to the delay in paying salaries to staff of the public TV station Canal Once.
The Mexicans Who Kneel Before Trump
Mexico is facing open interference by Americans from both the DNC & GOP in Mexican affairs, supported by Mexicans endorsing a US military invasion of Mexico under the pretext of drug trafficking.
A Manicure with a Machete
At Morena’s National Council’s sixth session in May, delegates passed ethical guidelines based on President Sheinbaum’s letter to the party, but for many attendees the question remained how these guidelines would be enforced.
1.9 Million Litres of Stolen Fuel Seized in Tamaulipas and Coahuila
The fuel was recovered as part of Operation Northern Border. A significant amount of stolen fuel is delivered to US refineries, to be sold in the US market and where the US government has shown little interest in pursuing the perpetrators of the crime.