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06/08/2025

Supreme Court to Review Which Union Rightfully Represents Workers at Camino Rojo Mine

Court to examine violations against workers, committed by the Canadian company Orla Mining, which has pressured them to join a pro-company protection union.

Mexico's highest court will examine violations against workers from the Mineros' union, committed by the Canadian company Orla Mining, which has pressured them to join a pro-company protection union.

06/08/2025

People’s Mañanera August 6

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily press conference for August 6, 2025, with comments on Alameda Oriente infrastructure, digital platform workers rights, Canadians, Fourth Transformation unity, and debunking rumours.

President Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on Alameda Oriente infrastructure, digital platform workers rights, Canadians, Fourth Transformation unity, and debunking circulating rumours.

06/08/2025

Sheinbaum Meets with Canadian Ministers, Prepares for Visit from Prime Minister Carney

The President revealed Canada wants to expand investment in Mexico, but also emphasized the need for Canadian mining corps to comply with environmental regulations.

President Sheinbaum revealed Canada wants to expand investment in Mexico, while she also emphasized the need for Canadian mining companies to comply with environmental regulations.

06/08/2025

Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
#70 Bridges, Not Walls: Dispatches from the Progressive International's 2nd Annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City

Bring it! On this episode of Soberanía – with a brand-spanking-new intro and outro – Kurt and José Luis break down their experience at the second Panamerican Congress held in Mexico City. Is there any way for the peoples of the Americas to truly understand each other?

Also, good economic news on three fronts: reducing poverty, rescuing PEMEX and holding tariffs at bay. Expanding the definition of “cartel” north of the Rio Grande with reports from Seth Harp (Fort Bragg) and José Olivares (Cibola County Correctional Center). And finally, a hyper-gentrified loser and hater.

Is there any way for the peoples of the Americas to truly understand each other? Dispatches from the Pan-American Congress and good news on reducing poverty, rescuing PEMEX and holding tariffs at bay. Plus, expanding the definition of "cartel" north of the Rio Grande.

05/08/2025

Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s ushered in a frontal attack on labor. It was an era of outright union busting and lost strikes. But the story of the one thousand mainly Mexicana workers of Watsonville Canning, the largest plant in what was then the “frozen food capital of the world,” had a surprisingly different ending.

An interview with Peter Shapiro on the Watsonville Canning Strike of 1985-87.

05/08/2025

US Used Zyklon B on Mexicans

Before the N***s used Zyklon B in the Holocaust, the US Public Health service used the poisonous gas in a "de-lousing" station on over 100,000 Mexicans crossing from Juárez to El Paso, Texas.

"The use of Zyklon B on the U.S.-Mexican border was a matter of keen interest to the firm of DEGESCH. In 1938, Dr. Gerhard Peters called for its use in German Desinfektionskammern. Romo has tracked down an article Peters wrote in a German pest science journal, Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde, which featured two photographs of El Paso delousing chambers. Peters went on to become the managing director of DEGESCH, which handled the supply of Zyklon B for the N**i death camps. He was tried and convicted at Nuremberg. Hilberg reports that he got five years, then won a retrial that netted him six years. He was re-tried in 1955 and found not guilty."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/a-short-history-of-zyklon-b-on-the-us-mexican-border-please-dont-share-with-donald-trump/

05/08/2025

People’s Mañanera August 5

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on PEMEX, murder of Federal Attorney General staff member in Tamaulipas, and US-Mexico security agreement.

President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on PEMEX, murder of Federal Attorney General staff member in Tamaulipas, and US-Mexico security agreement.

05/08/2025

Over 5 million agricultural day labourers in Mexico, (approximately half of whom lack employment contracts, benefits and health services) produce untold wealth for Mexican and transnational agribusiness corporations, in conditions of exploitation & abuse.

There are more than 5 million agricultural day labourers in Mexico, approximately half of whom lack employment contracts, benefits and health services; many are Indigenous, often children work in the fields. These workers produce untold wealth for Mexican and transnational agribusiness corporations,...

05/08/2025

Mexico & The Uncomfortable Proximity

Mexico can't choose its neighbors, but Mexico can choose a new path of unity and strength with other Latin American and Global South countries that share our values to make us stronger.

Mexico can't choose its neighbors, but Mexico can choose a new path of unity and strength with other Latin American and Global South countries that share our values to make us stronger.

04/08/2025

Asymmetric Dependence, the New Economic Order

Mexico ceased to be energy sovereign in 2014, but rebuilding state-owned enterprises gives it the flexibility to avoid Trump using energy as a weapon to extract concessions. Europe is too far gone.

Mexico ceased to be energy sovereign in 2014, but rebuilding state-owned enterprises gives it the flexibility and capacity to avoid Trump using energy as a weapon to extract concessions and halt the national development of strategic sectors. Europe is too far gone.

04/08/2025

People’s Mañanera August 4

President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on remittance & basic basket prices, Tuxtepec hospital opens, youth weight & vision, Israel Vallarta, electoral reform, & ABC Daycare owner extradition.

President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on remittance prices, basic basket of goods prices, Tuxtepec hospital opens, youth weight and vision issues, Israel Vallarta, electoral reform, & ABC Daycare owner extradition.