MEXICO ELECTION NEWS DIGEST
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.
Elections
Mexico Votes!
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.
Working Class Clara Brugada to Head Mexico City
Feminists have applauded the Utopias for years because Brugada’s was the only vision to become a reality that embraced the significance of creating care facilities for the long-awaited national care system
Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Close
Hundreds of thousands filled the Zocalo and side-streets in Mexico City to attend the closing event for Mexican Presidential candidate Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum.
Weekly News Items May 25
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.
Weekly News Items May 18
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.
SOBERANÍA 12 – Dirtying Elections Abroad
The DEA, with the help of ProPublica, again interferes in Mexico’s election, grassroots efforts by university students to hold a mock election, catching up with Enrique Krauze and his horrible piece in the Financial Times.
Weekly News Items May 13
UNAM Palestine encampment, maternity and labor, Ecuador vs Mexico diplomatic conflict, Cooperative Pascual, Trump and the “cartels,” economic development, mining workers rights.
SOBERANÍA 11 – USAID Corruption NGO Faces Corruption Allegations
Scandalous accusation surrounding the head of Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, bribery allegations against US Representative Henry Cuellar, false news reports on an alleged secret crematorium, and our bad coverage of the week from The Economist.
Weekly News Items May 5
Canada losing to Mexico in investment, Palestine and repression, manipulated surveys, government will investigate lack of new collective bargaining agreements, and GMO corn.