38 Billion Pesos Withdrawn from AFORE Accounts Due to Unemployment
The large number of Mexicans withdrawing from their pensions to survive unemployment indicates an urgent necessity to establish national unemployment insurance.
Pensions
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Michoacan Sugarcane Farmers Demand Decent Pension; They Live on 5,000 Pesos a Month
The sugarcane workers currently receive a pension of less than 60% of Mexico’s minimum wage, which places them in poverty and violates Article 123 of the Mexican Constitution and Mexico’s social security law.
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A Pact with Banking Oligarchies to Not Touch Pension Gold Mine
4T administrations have opted for agendas replicating the crisis of progressive Latin American countries: prioritizing partisan hegemonies of agreement with right-wing parties; and encouraging the electoral mobilization of citizens as the only valid form of political participation.
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NOT AGAINST A PARTY, AGAINST A MODEL
The national strike, initiated by the CNTE but joined by other public workers, is not a mobilization of workers against a political party, but against the neoliberal model that is still unfortunately in good health.
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MAGISTERIUM PLAINS RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
Mexican teachers face the enormous power of finance capital and a neoliberal retirement system, owned by major banks, the true right wing of this country, which the government refuses to touch with even a single tax.
