Workers Party says Mexican Musicians Betrayed

ByMexico Solidarity

This article originally appeared in the April 7, 2026 edition of El Financiero.

The Workers Party’s (PT) parliamentary leadership in the Chamber of Deputies expressed a new clash with Morena, denouncing that the Culture Commission, chaired by Morena member Alma Lidia de la Vega Sánchez, yielded and bent to the millionaire interests of transnational music companies and betrayed national artists, creators and performers.

In a press conference, PT coordinator, Reginaldo Sandoval, and vice-coordinator Magdalena Núñez, denounced that, despite the fact that in various meetings with deputies and representatives of the artistic guild, various benefits for national creators were agreed upon in the reforms to the Federal Copyright Law and the Federal Labour Law, the commission and its president eliminated said agreements from the ruling.

“Let it be heard all the way to the National Palace: we are making a public complaint and denunciation against the president of the Culture Commission and we demand that the proposals of our creators be taken up again,” said Deputy Magdalena Núñez.

“There is a multi-million dollar dance, involving billions of pesos, that ends up in the hands of very few who are the ones who profit from the creativity, the interpretation and the voice of Mexican artists.”

Núñez recalled that the ruling was already sent to the Board of Directors of the chamber for discussion and voting in the plenary of the 500 legislators since last week, but that it was stopped by the disagreements and protests of the PT. Since the reform is not what the president Claudia Sheinbaum proposes, it was modified and the commission intends to approve a “regressive” reform.

She said that “modifications had been agreed upon, but the committee informed us that the proposals that had been agreed upon with the union will not be passed, and that alarms us.” Therefore, she said that the bill will be voted on this Tuesday and they will seek to change its content through amendments, primarily to Article 118 of the law.

The parliamentary coordinator of the PT, Reginaldo Sandoval, criticized the fact that “we must not leave artists, composers, and performers defenseless; this industry generates 4 trillion pesos in profits.”

“Think the worst and you’ll be right,” because “lobbyists for the mega-corporations kept circling the commission like vultures,” and President Alma Lidia de la Vega fell into the trap of the million-dollar dance of the giants Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music, she stated.

“There is a multi-million dollar dance, involving billions of pesos, that ends up in the hands of very few who are the ones who profit from the creativity, the interpretation and the voice of Mexican artists,” she insisted.

In this regard, the parliamentary coordinator, Reginaldo Sandoval, also criticized the fact that “we cannot leave artists, composers, and performers defenseless; this industry generates 4 trillion pesos in profits, and they cannot be left defenseless against the transnational corporations that drive and operate this activity. We demand that the Secretariat of Culture listen to us as well,” he insisted.