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Mexico City Protest Demands Mexico Continue Sending Oil to Cuba The rally condemned US President Trump's executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba and decried the over 60 year old blockade against the island.

Who Will Defend Us? Officials who are making strategic decisions for the future of Mexico must not forget that in the last elections 36 million elected them to defend our institutions, a sovereign Mexico, & to prevent intervention. We don't need lukewarm, confusing positions.

People’s Mañanera January 30 President Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on reducing violence in Baja California, not sending oil to Cuba, migration, Grupo Salinas tax debt, economic development, and Interoceanic train derailment.

Debt on the Installment Plan: Salinas Pliego Pays $10B MXN; $22B in Installments The ultra-right winger and tax evader fumes, but begins to pay his debt piece-by-piece, but with less punitive measures than his Grupo Elektra receives.

"Cooperation, Not Subordination?" No Oil from Mexico for Cuba, Sheinbaum Says Will Help "without putting Mexico at risk" The sad reality behind President Sheinbaum's oft-repeated slogan on Mexico-US relations.

Mexico's Gig Worker Reform Risks Institutionalizing Exclusion of Women Workers Workers are demanding that platform companies implement real protocols against violence, with effective sanctions & a guarantee that "reporting will not bring us algorithmic punishments."

Mexican Union Fights in US After First Brands Bankruptcy & Factory Closures Mexican workers with 30 years of seniority were told by the legal advisors of the US autoparts company that "there was no money to pay salaries or continue operations."

PEMEX & Mexico's Energy Ministry Remain Silent on All Crude Oil Shipments to Cuba PEMEX canceled a scheduled oil shipment this month.

Trump announced his executive order to murder the Cuban people on the anniversary of the CELAC declaration. Will the governments of Latin America & the Caribbean honour their commitment and stand up for peace and wellbeing and help a nation that has given so much to the world?

Trump Signs Executive Order: Punitive Measures Against Any Country "that directly or indirectly provides oil" to Cuba The US President wants to destroy Cuba and starve its population and he wants Mexico to help. Or else.

Can I Borrow You For A Minute? UK MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social on Trans-Atlantic Anti-imperialism While oppression may take different forms in different places, the same forces are behind attacks on democracy in Latin America and assaults on civil liberties in the global north.

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Cuban Embassy to Mexico Denounces US Blockade Tightening & Persecution of Those Who Help Johana Tablada asserted that the Cuban people will follow the example of their national hero in defending the island’s right to choose its own destiny.

Mexico's Supreme Court Will Incorporate Legal Knowledge of Indigenous & Afro-Mexican Peoples "[Justice] must get closer to reality, and to get closer to reality we need method, we need knowledge, we need systematization, we need the people who demand justice, who cry out for justice, who mobilize."

People’s Mañanera January 29 President Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on Donald Trump phonecall, relations with Canada, revising the story of Ryan Wedding's "arrest", Sinaloa security, and Interoceanic train derailment.

Mexico's Ex-President Felipe Calderón Called a “murderer” in France Calderón's specious drug war produced 120,000 homicides during his reign, representing an 140% increase compared to the previous presidential term.

Mexico's Labour Secretariat Will Protect Workers From First Brands Bankruptcy Patrick James, founder of the US autoparts company, has been indicted on fraud charges, while 7 plants are closed and more than 4,000 Mexican workers are now jobless.

Mexican Government Rejects Accusations of Interference in US through Consulates On Wednesday, Trump promoted a book that accuses Claudia Sheinbaum's administration of organizing an "invisible coup" against the United States.

People’s Mañanera January 28 President Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on Interoceanic train derailment, electoral reform, SMEs credit, and increased exports

Mexico's Green Party Has Served Neoliberals, Salinas Pliego & the 4T. Its Franchise Model is in Danger. Since the party's inception, it's placed its electoral profitability at the service of the winning party in power, becoming a key to passing or blocking reforms.

Mexico Conspires to Invade US, says Book Promoted by Trump The book outlines a Bannon-adjacent conspiracy theory that the Mexican government and elites in the United States are using immigrants in this country as a secret weapon.

Latin America Unites - Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast #93 Inside the @progintl.bsky.social 'Nuestra América' Anti-Imperialist Summit in Bogotá, Colombia

PEMEX Cancels Cuban Oil Shipment, Humanitarian Aid Might Continue Will the shipment of oil as humanitarian aid continue? "We have to determine that based on the request," Sheinbaum responded.

The USMCA & Economic Control Mexico is moving toward a de facto semi-customs union, but without the fiscal or political benefits of a formal union, and with a growing loss of commercial and industrial autonomy.

Mexico City Public Works for 2026 World Cup Contradicts Needs of the Majority Mexico negotiated a complete tax exemption for FIFA during Enrique Peña Nieto's presidency (unlike agreements reached by Canada & the US) and a substantial commitment of public investment.

UNAM Launches Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros Exhibit The exhibition Siqueiros, Imprisoning the Flame will combine his writings, state records and photographs, and will open on February 4.

Betrayal? Cuba Oil Shipment Apparently Cancelled, Sheinbaum Evasive, Says "Sovereign Decision" The Mexican President initiated evasive maneuvers in response to direct questioning about a reportedly cancelled shipment of oil to Cuba.

Solidarity Après la Lettre Dispatch #1 The Progressive International’s Nuestra América Summit, the San Carlos Declaration, and What Comes Next @progintl.bsky.social

The San Carlos Declaration of the Nuestra América Emergency Summit Full text of the declaration arising from the Progressive International's Nuestra América summit held on January 24th and 25th, 2026 in Bogotá, Colombia.

People’s Mañanera January 26 President Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on approval ratings, Grupo Salinas tax debt, PROFECO vs Ticketmaster, and FIFA World Cup 2026.

Mexican Government to Investigate Ticketmaster Monopoly for BTS Ticket Sales Irregularities Mexico's Attorney General indicated that the fines against the ticketing company could reach up to $230k USD.

PAN's Desolate "Mass" Membership Drive It began in October with an arena event where Maximiliano Cortázar fell into a pool. Three months and only 3,500 new members later, the ultra-right party is still floundering in the deep end.

USMCA Review Needs to Include More Than Just Corporate Interests Mexico's Economy Secretary Ebrard has cancelled social organization consultations and adopted a rhetoric of supplication towards corporate interests in advance of the USMCA review.

Salinas Pliego Did Not Pay Tax Debt, Still Negotiating A five-day grace period which would allow the ultra-right winger a 39% discount on his nearly $3 billion USD tax debt has passed.

Berdegué, Agribusiness Hatchet Man With a crippling national farmers strike only one bad meeting away, the government's disregard for Mexico's agricultural crisis has a surprising face: its Secretary of Agriculture.

Mexico City Investigating Ultra-right Mayors in Connection with "Gen-Z" Shock Groups Investigations began in Cuauhtémoc & Miguel Hidalgo following accusations against Alessandra Rojo de la Vega & Mauricio Tabe around the half-geriatric, half-lumpen "Gen-Z" march.

DEA Agent Sentenced for Protecting Drug Trafficking Friends Such cases aren't rare for the corrupt US institution, which portrays itself as waging a Drug War, but in reality works as a critical management link between drug traffickers & the security state.

Classism & Racism in the Era of the Fourth Transformation In a world where dehumanization, exclusion, persecution based on ethnicity, racism, & classism are exponentially increasing, these practices are not isolated incidents; they are symptoms.

People’s Mañanera January 23 President Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on Interoceanic trail derailment report, collaboration with US, extortion, declining homicides in Veracruz, and Veracruz infrastructure investment.

Sheinbaum: Wage Policies & Social Programs Broke Decades of Neoliberal Neglect During a tour of Puebla, Mexico's President cited these changes as reversing the historical backwardness faced by the popular sectors.

Communism Without Rifles The Communist Party of Mexico's mere existence helps prevent the political landscape from being reduced to a false dilemma between a managed progressivism & an increasingly aggressive right wing.

Emergency Nuestra América Summit of the Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social Arrives at Critical Juncture for Latin American Unity The summit opens tomorrow in Bogotá, Colombia. Mexico Solidarity Media's Seth Garben will be covering it, as well as Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast.

Morena is not the PRI of the '70s The opposition's claim that Morena is the PRI of the 70s lacks foundation; the votes with which it won in 2018 and 2024 reflect genuine popular support.

Mexico SA Canada has begun to make moves (such as rapprochement with China), but Mexico is clinging to the USMCA: all its eggs in one basket. Given the frenzied dynamic imposed by Trump, that doesn't seem to be the wisest course of action.

People’s Mañanera January 22 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily press conference, with comments on tough talkin' on the global stage, economic update, Puebla violence, Puebla flooding reconstruction and electoral reform.

Progressive International's Nuestra América Summit Arrives at Critical Juncture Beset by disunity, cynical calculation, tepid reformism & an ascendant ultra-right, the region must unite against a US imperialism aiming to snuff out emancipatory possibilities & subjugate the continent once & for all.

No Happy Ending for 2025 If Mexican public investment continues to decline, the economy & employment will be highly vulnerable, and the foundations for sustained growth will not be laid. At best, we will remain a vast assembly plant; at worst, a country without decent employment opportunities.

Why Chicanas & Chicanos Must Defend Venezuela Simultaneous attacks on Venezuela and our communities via the criminal actions of ICE and the Border Patrol expose the twin pillars of the Trump/MAGA project.

Saúl Morán Oropeza, Unwavering Communist, Defender of the Poor & the People of Guerrero's Red Mountain He didn't remain at the level of words or ideologies, but transformed his convictions into daily action, traveling through communities and fighting to ensure that the voice of his people was heard