People’s Mañanera October 12
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Jalisco water, the 4T, Indigenous rights, and digital disinformation.
Water
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Thousands Demand Clean Water in Jalisco and Lemus Uses It to Repress Them
In Jalisco, governed by the opposition party Movimiento Ciudadano, police met the march with water cannons and tear gas, and protesters reported arrests and two people disappeared.
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People’s Mañanera September 30
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on housing, the environment, water, single nationality, Calderón, and the Lie Detector.
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Water as a Right: Sheinbaum Reports Recovery of 5 Billion Cubic Meters
Following the reform to the National Water Law, Mexico has recovered over 5 billion cubic meters of water from private concessions, enough to supply 90 million people for a year.
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People’s Mañanera August 10
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on children online, solidarity with Colombia, reforestation, renaming Paso de Cortés, avocado plants, water for the eastern Valley, and the Central American Games.
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Guadalajara’s Water at Risk of Privatization
Jalisco’s governor floats water privatization amid a contamination crisis on his own government’s watch, joining other right-wing opposition states embroiled in water scandals.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Announces Cancellation of La Parota Dam in Guerrero; Water Wells Will Be Built Instead
After a two-decade grassroots fight against the CFE dam on the Papagayo River, the government will supply Acapulco with radial wells and tanks instead.
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National Mobilization Called to Reject Water Agreement Between Chihuahua and Israel
Chihuahua’s right-wing PAN government signed the Israel water pact without registering it with Mexico’s federal foreign ministry; groups in 14 states march August 1 to cancel it.
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People’s Mañanera July 16
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on river cleanup, gasoline prices, migrant protection, El Mayo Zambada, the USMCA review, and public education.
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Mexican Government Reports Progress in Atoyac Cleanup; Textile Discharges, Main Challenge: Sheinbaum
A year into a 20-billion-peso cleanup, authorities inspected 280 firms, fined 56 million pesos, and closed eight sites; dyeing runoff is hardest to curb.
