Vulcan: Mexico’s Victory
Vulcan plundered the Riviera Maya for decades, then demanded $1.9 billion from Mexico in a corporate tribunal and still lost. AMLO ended the mining operations and declared the site a protected natural area.
Mexican Sovereignty
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People’s Mañanera July 28
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on media regulation, phone registration, Ernesto Ruffo, sovereignty, employment, UNAM, and solidarity with Cuba.
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Thousands March in Mexico City in Support of Cuba, 73 Years After the Assault on the Moncada Barracks, Against US Attacks on the Island
Backed by over 100 organizations, from Morena to communist parties, the march condemns Trump’s invasion threats and the six-decade blockade.
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The Right’s Strategy to Destabilize Mexico; the American Society Case
Nancy Flores reports how Larry Rubin, the dual US-Mexican citizen heading the American Society of Mexico, united opposition and corporate media behind the “narco-government” line.
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Mexico’s Environment Secretariat Halts Mining Companies: Demands Environmental Authorization in Protected Areas
The decree takes effect Tuesday and covers even pre-2023 concessions, with Supreme Court backing that holding a concession grants no automatic right to mine.
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Mexico Refuses to Attend Marco Rubio Summit and Reaffirms Non-Intervention Policy
The ‘far-left political terrorism’ meeting was deemed political, not security cooperation; Washington has already been notified of the decision.
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US Returns Letter in Which Mexico Asks to Review ICE
The US returned Mexico’s letter over four Adelanto deaths, telling it to use ‘diplomatic channels’, even as 18 have died in ICE custody under Trump II.
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If USMCA Disappears in the Next Decade, It Would Be the End of Economic Liberalization
Ahead of the July 20 USMCA review, UAM economist Carolina Hernández Calvario argues Mexico’s development project would outlive free trade, urging “strategic anticipation.”
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When a Certain Argentine Right Hates Mexicans
“There is no spontaneous Argentine-Mexican conflict; there is a transnational circulation of narratives produced by influence networks, media, and algorithms that turn any disagreement between leaders into antagonism between peoples.”
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Under Calderón There Was Interference, Deals With Cartels, and Violence Increased: Sheinbaum
Sheinbaum said Calderón’s pacts with the Sinaloa Cartel and unchecked US operations drove homicides up 148%, citing Fast and Furious.
