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12 billion USD in infrastructure investment for an economic impact of 3 billion USD. Meanwhile an opaque agreement with FIFA means big tax breaks for FIFA & foreign corporations.
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Proceso Columbo González González lost his eye from a rubber bullet reportedly fired by Mexico City riot police, while Octavio Romero was struck in the face with a metal rod.
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Mexico’s former President has released a statement on US attacks on Mexico, only his second political statement since the end of his term, accusing US official of plotting to “weaken Morena.”
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Teachers are demanding the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE and 1997 IMSS laws; as well as the repeal of Peña Nieto’s 2012 education reform and salary increases.
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The Mexican right is going through a crisis, increasingly closer to international far-right sectors and further from a political proposal capable of competing.
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Ambassador Ronald Johnson is a former Green Beret and CIA agent.
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The teachers’ national strike centers around demands to end the privatized pensions built on the Pinochet model, a dignified retirement, & for President Sheinbaum to keep her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law.
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Remarks delivered at Mexico City’s Monument to the Revolution by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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The blockade is in response to the murder of teacher Felipe de Jesús Martínez and the serious injuries of another, Adelaida Zacarías Pascual, after an attack in Pómaro yesterday.
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This scheme of free fares and free transfers serves as a tool to support the family economy of vulnerable groups.
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This figure represents a decrease of 3.2 percentage points compared to the same period of the previous year, according to INEGI.
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The teachers were found only one day after a Morena mayor organized a shock group which shot at striking teachers and kidnapped 15 of them in neighbouring Oaxaca.
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Publicly-subsidized, privately profitable: FIFA’s grotesque spectacle of graft, corruption & recreational consumption for ultra-wealthy parasites threatens the livelihoods and wellbeing of Mexico City residents.
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The LLM-saturated León Barrena Rodríguez & Partners account spreads rumours & innuendo via its X account.
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on healthcare funding, PEMEX exploration, the US Ambassador, and Vicente Fox’ re-appearance.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on pharmaceutical investments, FDI, CIA freewheelin’ in Mexico, definitely not a colony and May 31 Presidential address.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on anti-violence programs, security strategy, informal employment creation, US-Mexico relations, and megaprojects & ecosystems.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Sheinbaum to US Ambassador: Mind Your Own Business – Soberanía 109
A week of dramatic escalation in U.S.-Mexico tensions and President Sheinbaum’s forceful response.
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Analysis
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Raising Wages: a Tool for Economic Development
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
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CNTE: A Media Manual for Inciting Hatred
We have returned to the stage of prioritizing lies over a minimum exercise of truthfulness, wrote Jenaro Villamil in 2013. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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AMLO Speaks, Los Angeles Times Leaks
The truth is that these kinds of leaks often serve to foreshadow government operations carried out by US intelligence agencies to test the waters, warn, and prepare the ground.
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The Left That Learned to Distribute, But Not Produce
Mexico faces a historical contradiction: it has a government that speaks as if it has broken with neoliberalism, yet it retains too many of the economic structures that neoliberalism left untouched. It has rhetoric of sovereignty, but financial dependence.
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Mexico 2026: The Protests Behind the World Cup
In a tense political context, fueled by pressure from the US, exacerbated by the ever-consolidating power of elites, & further exacerbated by internal divisions within the ruling party and the costs of its pragmatic alliances, we must not ignore the legitimate, simmering social discontent that is resurfacing.
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Guerrero’s Montaña Baja & the Siego of Micro-criminality
The arrival of mining companies in the area represents a benefit for criminal groups that impose fees & extortion to allow the extraction and transport of minerals.
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Inflation & Subsidies
To create an environment of economic growth with low inflation, financial stability, and high employment, economic policy must stop favoring the financial sector and instead focus on Mexico’s productive sector and employment.
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Women & Gaza: “If They Touch One of Us, We All Respond”
This is a pledge of international solidarity that connects the women resisting in Mexico with those sustaining life in Palestine.
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