Weekly News Items June 9
AMLO’s legacy, Claudia’s path forward, Supreme Court reforms, the death of the PRD, John Deere plants moving to Mexico, and the unceasing dubious punditry in Mexico and abroad.
AMLO’s legacy, Claudia’s path forward, Supreme Court reforms, the death of the PRD, John Deere plants moving to Mexico, and the unceasing dubious punditry in Mexico and abroad.
Elected on a left-wing program promising to deepen the political transformation started by outgoing President AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory has provoked the ire of Mexico’s right-wing elites and intellectuals.
Mexico Solidarity Media editor José Luis Granados Ceja joined Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Angeles and Katie Halper to talk about Mexico’s historic election of Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish person elected president in North America.
Mexico’s first woman president faces an uneasy road after opponents falsely accuse Morena party of authoritarianism.
The partisan representations of that neoliberal and oligarchic right, its intellectuals and commentators and its civil organizations are today experiencing a profound and irreparable defeat.
English & Spanish language stories on the largest election in Mexico’s history which produced Mexico’s first female President and landslide results across the map for the left party of Morena and its coalition partners.
Mexicans voted in election in the largest election in the country’s history. More than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs, as well as the Presidential position, which was won by Claudia Sheinbaum of Morena.
Hundreds of thousands filled the Zocalo and side-streets in Mexico City to attend the closing event for Mexican Presidential candidate Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum.
Mexico City leftist candidate Clara Brugada, corruption in food processing, Sheinbaum proposes water reforms, deaths at Movimiento Ciudadano rally stage collapse, potential Telmex strike, ICJ on Mexico-Ecuador, Chinese investment, the right wing opposition marches.
US fentanyl crisis, Sheinbaum campaign, the dark history of AFL-CIO and CIA collusion against Mexican labor, US warns against Chinese EV production in Mexico, UNAM’s Palestine encampment, Supreme Court corruption, migration, and mining.