Milpa Alta, The Mexico City Borough with No Retail Chains
An oasis without predatory transnational chains, where 90% of land is communally owned, and decisions are made in communal assemblies.
Mexico City
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Salvador Zarco: The Train & A Life
The locomotive mechanic, trade unionist and communist helped found the Railroad Workers Museum after fighting the neoliberal privatization of Mexico’s railways.
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Cultural Promoters: Demand for Zaco’s Resignation at Railway Workers Museum is “Arbitrary”
The trade unionist was fired by Mexico City’s Ministry of Culture, who still have yet to recover sculptures of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara that were stolen by ultra-right wing mayor Alessandra de la Rojo Vega.
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Mexico City Congress Codifies Crime of Violence Between Partners, Including Dating Relationships
The reform establishes that these crimes will be prosecuted ex officio and that aggressors must attend re-education workshops.
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Mexico City Congress Creates Commission to Investigate “Gen-Z” March Violence
The overwhelming opinion on Mexico’s left is that shock groups in the November 15th confrontation were paid for, and orchestrated by the right wing opposition.
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Mexico City Distributes Free Vouchers for Public Markets
300,000 Mexico City residents have received the vouchers, which are worth 2,000 pesos & can be redeemed at public markets and neighbourhood enterprises.
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Evicted Mexico City Families Will Protest on December 15
The protest is being organized by 11 República de Cuba tenants, who were evicted by a court officer using the ID of a tenant who had been dead for five years.
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Faced with CDMX Inaction, Committee Seeks to Recover Fidel & Che Statues
Mexico City’s Clara Brugada has made no progress recovering the statues after they were illegally removed by the ultra-right wing Cuauhtémoc mayor.
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Mexico City Fails to Control Airbnb Ahead of 2026 World Cup
Proposed legislation from both Batres’ interm administration & the current Brugada government has not been instituted: no one is monitoring property use & a digital registry that was supposed to be operational since 2024 remains inactive.
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Torre Mítikah left Xoco with Little Water, Classism & Aggression
The Mítikah luxury apartment & shopping complex consumes 12 percent of all the water received by the pre-Hispanic town, increasing water shortages by 1,750% between 2018 and 2022
