News
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Killed in his own office, mayor Valentín Lavín was himself under investigation for organized crime ties and as the alleged mastermind of three murders, including activist Samir Flores.
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The PAN’s old guard closes ranks behind Ernesto Ruffo, a fellow governor charged with fuel smuggling and organized crime, recasting him as a persecuted ‘political prisoner.’
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The US border, shut to Mexican cattle since May 2025 over a screwworm outbreak, reopens in late August via Agua Prieta, Sonora, then two points in Chihuahua.
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Speaking in Cuernavaca after meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, she said rules of origin remain under negotiation.
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Organizers expect a bigger turnout than the annual July 26 mobilizations, marching to the former U.S. embassy on the 73rd Moncada anniversary.
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Rosaura Ruiz met with Ambassador Chen Daojiang to advance joint AI, semiconductor, and electromobility projects, plus possible collaboration with Huawei.
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Mexican food-safety regulators found no parasite or fecal coliforms, as the U.S. FDA’s contamination alert on the lettuce turned out to be a false positive.
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The U.S. Trade Representative arrived at Palacio Nacional under heavy security, joined by Ambassador Ronald Johnson, for nearly 90 minutes of talks.
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Gustavo Castillo reports on the federal takeover of the murder case of Alejandro Leyva Aguilar, 58, a CORTV ex-director and critic of Oaxaca’s governor.
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Salinas Pliego paid Black Cube, a firm of Israeli ex-agents, £1.1M to pose as oil executives and trap his rival’s lawyer into leaking case secrets over drinks.
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At a Madrid rally, PSOE, Sumar and IU deputies and unions called Sheinbaum a ‘beacon of light’ and denounced a ’21st-century Monroe Doctrine.’
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As Maduro and Cilia Flores faced a New York court on ‘narco-terrorism’ charges, Mexico’s Anti-Imperialist Front burned photos of Trump, Vance, and Netanyahu.
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The daily homicide average in the State of Mexico fell from 6.6 to 2.8 as a single-command strategy across 15 eastern municipalities drove 3,330 arrests.
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The decree takes effect Tuesday and covers even pre-2023 concessions, with Supreme Court backing that holding a concession grants no automatic right to mine.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Morelos security, the countryside, falling insecurity, the USMCA, fuel fraud, public works, and her U.S. visit.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Mexico Sings, the culture of peace, cultural investment, young talent, the USMCA review, and the Lie Detector.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on homicides falling to 45.4 a day nationwide and to a 19-year low in the State of Mexico, housing progress in Michoacán, and tariff talks with the U.S. this Thursday.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Failed Magnate Backs Call for Deportation of Fellow Mexicans – Soberanía 116
Sheinbaum’s warm migrant welcome in New York versus Salinas Pliego’s “ICE do your thing,” El Mayo’s life sentence dashing the opposition’s dreams, and the takedown of Ruffo’s fuel-smuggling network.
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Analysis
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The Social Sector of the Economy: The Missing Piece Facing the Market
“The social sector represents all those forms that do not compulsively pursue the objectives of the capitalist economy. They have as their antecedent all the community and cooperative forms that have not been able to be subsumed under the logic of profit”
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The Right’s Strategy to Destabilize Mexico; the American Society Case
Nancy Flores reports how Larry Rubin, the dual US-Mexican citizen heading the American Society of Mexico, united opposition and corporate media behind the “narco-government” line.
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The Communities That Held Venezuela Together
After the June 24 earthquakes flattened La Guaira, the communal councils Venezuela built years earlier became the relief network sanctions couldn’t stop.
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If USMCA Disappears in the Next Decade, It Would Be the End of Economic Liberalization
Ahead of the July 20 USMCA review, UAM economist Carolina Hernández Calvario argues Mexico’s development project would outlive free trade, urging “strategic anticipation.”
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Hugo Eric Flores and the Evangelical Far Right
Hugo Eric Flores launches PAZ, his third evangelical party; a career opportunist who has passed through the PRI, the PAN, and Morena, always to hand the evangelical vote a party.
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Somos MX and the Media: Does Mexico’s New Party Revolve Around Salinas Pliego?
Somos MX, a new opposition party to Morena, is built less on a social base than on Mexico’s media oligarchy, including allies of magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
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When a Certain Argentine Right Hates Mexicans
“There is no spontaneous Argentine-Mexican conflict; there is a transnational circulation of narratives produced by influence networks, media, and algorithms that turn any disagreement between leaders into antagonism between peoples.”
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US Agencies, Especially the CIA, Pressure Mexico’s Sovereignty
Four US agents caught in Chihuahua exposed illegal intelligence on Mexican soil, reopening the debate over the CIA’s reach and Mexico’s sovereignty.
PHOTOS
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CNTE Strike Day 3: Teachers vs Privatized Pensions
Photos of the Mexican teachers actions at private banks in Mexico City which manage workers pensions, whether anyone wants them to or not.
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Petróleo Mexicano para los Cubanos!
Solidarity protestors gathered outside of the former location of the Embassy of the United States on Reforma in Mexico City on Sunday, demanding that Mexico send oil to Cuba and expressing their disavowal of Trump’s recent assault on the island and its people.
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Mexico City Mass March for Venezuela, Maduro & Flores
Defense of sovereignty and a unified continental response to US imperialist aggression comprised the collective agenda of the 10,000 strong march.
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Trump, Hands Off Venezuela Rally
Mexicans rallied outside the new US embassy in Mexico City, expressing solidarity with Venezuelans and demanding US President Donald Trump cease his aggression against the Bolivarian Republic.
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600k in Mexico’s Zócalo for Seven Years of the Fourth Transformation
Photos of the anniversary commemorating the Mexican party Morena & social movement the Fourth Transformation forming government.
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Mexico City Mobilizes on 2nd Anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, Against Genocide of Palestinians
Thousands marched in support of Palestinian national liberation, demanding Mexico break relations with the genocidal state of israel.
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Mexican Trade Unions for Palestine March Against Gaza Genocide
The march was organized by a coalition of 300 of Mexico’s trade unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations, and made five demands of the Mexican government.
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THUNDER OVER MEXICO
Publicity stills from Thunder Over Mexico, a film edited from the remnants of an aborted project by Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein.
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MAY DAY: MEXICO CITY MARCH
International Workers Day was commemorated in Mexico as unions marched from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s 100 Points
100 points outlined in Sheinbaum’s first speech as the newest President of the Mexican Republic, with 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