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.
Elections
SOBERANÍA 10 – Xóchitl Slings Mud To Save Campaign
The winners and losers of Mexico’s second presidential debate, Mexico City’s electoral watchdog censors talk about the housing cartel, and a look at Anabel Hernández’s forthcoming book.
SOBERANÍA 9 – Pension Predators vs. Pension Protectors
Pension reform, the regional response to Ecuador’s invasion, and the campaign in Chiapas.
Weekly News Items April 20
Mexico-Ecuador embassy and lawfare rift, glyphosate dispute, US pressure on Mexico to limit trade with China, Sheinbaum interview, the neoliberal intellectual crisis.
SOBERANÍA 8 – Another Xóchitl Gaffe
Xóchitl Gálvez scorns millions of people who rent their homes in Mexico & the Mexican opposition’s lawfare campaigns.
SOBERANÍA 7 – ECUADOR INVADES MEXICAN EMBASSY
Dive into Ecuador’s persecution of leftists, which led to the embarrassing decision by Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa to invade the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
SOBERANÍA LIVE: Mexican Presidential Debate Reaction
The Soberanía Podcast will be joined by special guest Dr. Violeta Vázquez-Rojas to breakdown the first presidential debate between Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Gálvez, and Jorge Álvarez Máynez.
Weekly News Items April 6
Brash attack by Ecuador on Mexican embassy, Sheinbaum’s anti-corruption proposals, 60 Minutes, US citizens responsible for fentanyl smuggling, CDMX election, gender equity in Mexico.
SOBERANÍA 6 – Opposition Wants to Gag Debate on Social Programs
Mexican right wing seeks to stop candidates from talking about right wing opposition to universal social programs, rich tourists and gentrifiers want to silence Banda music in Mazatlan, the water crisis and TV Azteca’s campaign against Citlalli Hernández.
Mexico’s Opposition Strategy for the Coming Elections
Analysis of the dangers and prospects surrounding one of Mexico’s most importat elections from the México Solidarity Project and Mexico Solidarity Forum.