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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People’s Mañanera September 21
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the report assemblies, education scholarships, G20 growth, diesel supply, and sovereignty.
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Companies Lobby Against Mexican Reform That Would Require Them to Report the ‘Definitive’ Price
Netflix, Uber, Rappi and DHL are pressuring Congress to weaken Morena’s bill against ‘drip pricing,’ the hidden fees tacked onto a low advertised cost.
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“I Want to Work With President Sheinbaum,” Mamdani Says; He Praises Her Policies
At the Urban 20 forum, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Mexico City an international ‘inspiration’ for how it confronts the cost-of-living and care crisis.
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Mexico Sees the US as a ‘Greater Threat’ Than China or Russia, New Survey Confirms
A Focaldata–Rockefeller poll finds 58% of Mexicans see the US as a major threat, more than double the figure for China and well above Russia.
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Mexicana Receives Its Ninth Embraer Aircraft; Increases Its Capacity by 11.04%
Mexico’s recently nationalized airline Mexicana receives its ninth Brazilian-built Embraer E2, raising monthly capacity to 57,020 seats out of the AIFA airport.
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From Fast and Furious to Walking Fentanyl: Lessons Not Learned by the US
Nancy Flores digs into declassified emails showing the DEA let fentanyl ‘walk’ New Mexico streets, echoing the ATF’s Fast and Furious guns to the Sinaloa Cartel a decade earlier.
