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.
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Failed Magnate Backs Call for Deportation of Fellow Mexicans – Soberanía 116
Sheinbaum’s warm migrant welcome in New York versus Salinas Pliego’s “ICE do your thing,” El Mayo’s life sentence dashing the opposition’s dreams, and the takedown of Ruffo’s fuel-smuggling network.
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Mexican Billionaire Salinas Pliego Used Private Spies to Cheat in Court, British Judge Accuses
Salinas Pliego paid Black Cube, a firm of Israeli ex-agents, £1.1M to pose as oil executives and trap his rival’s lawyer into leaking case secrets over drinks.
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The Spanish Left Backs Sheinbaum Against the Threat of Far-Right Interference
At a Madrid rally, PSOE, Sumar and IU deputies and unions called Sheinbaum a ‘beacon of light’ and denounced a ’21st-century Monroe Doctrine.’
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Protesters at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico Demand the Release of Maduro and His Wife
As Maduro and Cilia Flores faced a New York court on ‘narco-terrorism’ charges, Mexico’s Anti-Imperialist Front burned photos of Trump, Vance, and Netanyahu.
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Homicide Incidence in the State of Mexico Falls 56% from September 2024 to This Past June
The daily homicide average in the State of Mexico fell from 6.6 to 2.8 as a single-command strategy across 15 eastern municipalities drove 3,330 arrests.
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People’s Mañanera July 22
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on homicides falling to 45.4 a day nationwide and to a 19-year low in the State of Mexico, housing progress in Michoacán, and tariff talks with the U.S. this Thursday.
