People’s Mañanera June 30
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on the USMCA, public healthcare, trust in government, public funds, migrants, and the fertilizer plant.
Food Sovereignty
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Mexico Will Be the Fifth Market With Highest Corn Demand and Top Importer in 2035
OECD-FAO projections put Mexico at 10% of all corn traded worldwide by 2035, the widest gap between consumption and domestic production of any major buyer.
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Mexican Milk & Dairy Imports Start 2026 at Record High
The figures represent the highest level recorded since data has been available, as subsidized US imports, droughts, and increased grain prices have battered Mexican producers.
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Mexican Government Announces Plan to Guarantee White Corn Price
Drought, the dumping of subsidized crops from the US, middle-men profiteering and falling prices have been indebting and ruining Mexico’s corn producers.
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Mexico City Police Close Reforma to Stop Farmers Protest
With trucks, patrol cars, riot police, and even an official tow truck, the police blocked vehicles carrying protesters, despite their right to public demonstration.
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Restore Campesino Rights, Reject the USMCA
José Jacobo Femat of the Central of Peasant & Popular Organizations, rejects the USMCA entirely, saying free trade agreements have effectively turned Mexico into a colony of US multinationals.
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Glyphosate: the Legal & Political Battle That Defines the Future of the World’s Most Widely Used Herbicide
A US Supreme Court decision on cancer & agrochemicals is taking place as the Trump administration declares glyphosate a national security priority.
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USMCA & The Destruction of Mexican Agriculture
The treaty didn’t open a neutral market; it consolidated a mechanism in which Mexico absorbs subsidized grains that sustain income & territorial power on the US side of the border, while here, producers, communities, & margins of sovereignty are dismantled.
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Indigenous Communities Denounce Non-Compliance by Mexico’s Agriculture Secretariat, Announce Day of Protest
The Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán demanded the removal of the Agricultural Secretary, citing omissions, negligence, & mismanagement of public funds.
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USMCA: Listen to All Voices from the Countryside
It’s imperative to develop a roadmap for building Mexico’s sovereign agri-food model with broad participation, especially from producers. Our agriculture is not merely a productive activity; it is social cohesion, identity, meaning, & a formidable public good.
