Briefs
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SOBERANÍA 19 – ELECTORAL LAWFARE
The Mexican right wing attempt to steal Morena’s legislative supermajority through electoral lawfare, PAN confesses what we always knew wall along, and Tim Golden’s latest DEA sourced hit piece in ProPublica.
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CLICKS JULY 22
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US unions decry Caterpillar move to Mexico, multipolar opportunities, agroecology, Trump & Mexico, ongoing revival of passenger rail, Mexican humanism, China & Mexican green energy cooperation, the curse of water privatization, Canadian mining crimes, corn dispute.
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SOBERANÍA 18 – Will MAGA Reloaded Set its Sights on Mexico?
What are the potential consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency for Mexico? Also, Morena’s overhaul of the judiciary, new tariffs on Chinese metals and greenwashing propaganda from The Guardian.
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CLICKS JULY 15
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Communism coming to Mexico soon warns Bishop, energy reforms, steel tarrifs, rising wages for unionized workers, tech corp profiteering and the border issue.
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SOBERANÍA 17 – Fishy Financing at Anti-AMLO Outlet ‘Latinus’
Soberanía dives into the criminal investigation of the funding of a far-right propaganda outlet, Morena’s controversies surrounding Sergio Mayer and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, and President-elect Sheinbaum’s cabinet picks.
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CLICKS JULY 8
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. The Western Left takes a glance at Mexico, Taibo II’s popular press, more DEA corruption, inequality, Monsanto in Mexico, migration, David Harvey in CDMX, CNTE’s fight for popular pedagogy.
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Right wing tries to discredit Mexico’s election
An interview with Rafael Barajas, El Fisgón, head of Morena’s National Institute of Political Education.
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SOBERANÍA BONUS – International Reaction to Sheinbaum’s Victory
Kurt Hackbarth speaks with Dr. Escamilla Ham, expert on US-Mexico relations, on the international reaction to Claudia Sheinbaum’s election.
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CLICKS JUNE 30
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Neoliberalism as corruption, eco-reserves, GMO corn dispute, US flooding Mexico with guns, the figure of Alazraki.
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Historic opportunity for Mexico’s Left
Morning Star Mexico correspondent David Raby looks at how the decisive electoral victory for Morena candidates will translate into policy.
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SOBERANÍA SPECIAL – AMLO’s Progressive Reforms to Mexico’s 1917 Constitution
A special co-production with the Democratic Constitution Podcast on proposed constitutional reforms, including the controversial effort to radically change Mexico’s judiciary, and why these changes can cement AMLO’s legacy.
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CLICKS JUNE 22
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Judicial reform, Latin American integration, public sector driven energy transition, Clara Brugada’s utopias.
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This Chicano is Inspired by Mexican Election
Bill Gallegos, a veteran Chicano liberation activist, environmental justice leader, and revolutionary socialist, has a lot to celebrate and anticipate.
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Claudia Sheinbaum: Morena Comes of Age
An interview with Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete, coordinator of the Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior, on Claudia Sheinbaum & Morena’s victory.
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LEFT RECKONING w/ MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth
What does Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic electoral victory mean for Mexico’s 4th Transformation and what lessons can the US left learn from it?
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Weekly News Items June 17
The Mexican Right is defeated and the PRI bankrupt, Brugada to expand social housing, public banking success, mining strike, migration battle, state utility expansion, and new possibilities in the labor reform.
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Working Class Poverty: A Historical Turn
Working poverty is an outrageous hardship, since it cannot be attributed to the lack of will of individuals to get ahead, but rather to the pettiness of employers or failed business models that do not allow jobs to be created in conditions of respect for human rights.
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REAL NEWS NETWORK w/ MSM’s José Luis Granados Ceja
José Luis Granados Ceja debates Tamara Pearson on the meaning of AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum and the 4th Transformation.
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SOBERANÍA 16 – Capitalist FREAK-OUT
International financial markets and their teareaders in the corporate press react to Sheinbaum’s intention to follow through on her mandate & pursue constitutional reforms.
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The Challenges of Mexico’s Labor Reform
While the capitalists want to enforce borders that workers can’t cross, we are showing that yes, we can! Through communication, cooperation, and organization, working-class power can jump over borders.
ANALYSIS
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Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left
Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.
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Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike
An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.
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The Terrible Ignorance of Norma Piña
Much to the consternation of relics of the neoliberal order like Supreme Court President Norma Piña, more than 80% of Mexicans back a major change to the judiciary, blackened with a legacy of widespread accusations of corruption, questionable rulings and failing to deliver justice to victims.
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‘The Coup’ at Ford: Political Intrigue Across Borders
“US labor was on the wrong side of history. And that’s the truth.” An interview with Rob McKenzie on US complicity in the 1990 murder of Mexican workers.
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Innuendoes, Distortions, Omissions and Blatant Lies by NACLA
A substantial part of the “character assassination” includes a torrent of innuendoes, guilt by association, and plenty of other tricky ambiguities aimed at allegedly “demonstrating” the long-term connection, if not association, between AMLO and narco-traffickers since at least 2006.
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Learning from Mexico’s “4th Transformation”
Claudia Sheinbaum’s landslide victory offers lessons for the U.S. Left
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Mexican Solidarity with Palestine
An interview with Aracely Cortés-Galán, a long-time Palestine solidarity activist who in the 2019 book, “El militarismo israelí en América Latina,” explored how Israel’s involvement in Mexico has contributed to countless deaths.
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Leftist Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Landslide Victory in Mexico Presidential Election
Mexico’s first woman president faces an uneasy road after opponents falsely accuse Morena party of authoritarianism.
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Sembrando Vida: Seeding Life
Mayan Values are reflected in the government program to support reforestation and repair ecosystems after years of damage from agribusiness and tourism.
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Judge Ociel Baena: Hero/Heroine
In November 2023, Jesús Ociel Baena-Saucedo, Mexico’s first openly nonbinary magistrate, was killed. An interview with the poet Edwing “Canuto” Roldán.
PHOTOS
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Mexico Votes!
Mexicans voted in election in the largest election in the country’s history. More than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs, as well as the Presidential position, which was won by Claudia Sheinbaum of Morena.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Close
Hundreds of thousands filled the Zocalo and side-streets in Mexico City to attend the closing event for Mexican Presidential candidate Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum.
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CDMX Rally Against Ecuador’s Attack on Mexican Embassy
The provocative assault was ordered by the ultra-right wing government of Miami-born, nepo-baby Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Launch
Hundreds of thousands crowded the Zócalo and beyond in Mexico City. Sheinbaum polling over twice the amount of her nearest competition.
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Mexico City Global Day for Palestine
The demand was made for Mexico to end diplomatic relations with Israel.
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Massive march brings over 20,000 into Mexico City streets for Palestine
Various social and political organizations participated, as well as students and a substantial number of trade unions, including the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas and Sindicato de Trabajadores de la UNAM.
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CDMX with Palestine
On Saturday, October 28th, Chilangos marched in solidarity with Palestine from the Angel of Indepence to the Zócalo,
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Mexico City in Solidarity with Palestine
Over 10,000 rallied in Mexico City in solidarity with Palestinians
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XXII Feria Internacional del Libro
For this edition, tributes were made to Almudena Grandes, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, Carlos Martínez Rentería and Elena Poniatowska.
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Energy Reform Vote
Mexicans gathered at the Chamber of Deputies to show support for a bill to amend the Mexican Constitution regarding the energy sector