Summit of the Americas in L.A. Next Month
L.A.Times
Mexican president is unlikely to attend.
Mexican president is unlikely to attend.
Mexican president is unlikely to attend.
labor
A New Union, At Last? Mexican Auto Parts Workers Get to Vote, Three Years After Strike Wave
Labor Notes
Mexico’s labor law reform went into effect in 2019, requiring unions to hold secret-ballot votes to validate all existing contracts by May 2023. Next week, workers at Tridonex will hold a vote and attempt to get rid of their employer-friendly union.
Tidbits - Feb. 10, 2022 - Reader Comments: Russia, Ukraine And the U.S.; Free Leonard Peltier; Brian Flores Sues NFL; Unpaid Labor; Medicare for All - How; Ozark - new show; Cuban Blockade After 60 Years; resources, announcements, more....
Portside
Reader Comments: Russia, Ukraine And the U.S.; Free Leonard Peltier; Brian Flores Sues NFL; Unpaid Labor; Medicare for All - How; Ozark - new show; Cuban Blockade After 60 Years; resources, announcements, more....
Global Left Midweek - February 9, 2022
Portside
A time for serious reflection and careful observation
How the Mexican Revolution Made John Reed a Red
Jacobin
John Reed’s thrilling dispatches from the front lines of the Mexican Revolution could have made him a pop culture celebrity. Instead, the experience made him a committed socialist.
Jesus ‘Chuy’ Negrete, Chicago folklorist, writer, singer of Chicano movement, dead at 72
Chicago Sun-Times
‘He told our stories,’ actor Edward James Olmos says of the Chicago writer of corridos some called the ‘Chicano Woody Guthrie.’
AMLO Is Nationalizing Mexico’s Lithium Supply
Jacobin
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is attempting to transform the country’s overpriced energy industry by nationalizing lithium — a move essential to kicking out private mining and developing a robust and affordable public energy sector.
Cuban and Mexican Presidents Strengthen Solidarity in Remarkable Display
CounterPunch
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commemorating Grito de Dolores, invited Cuba’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel, to share the podium with him as an act of solidarity.
Global Left Midweek - Indigenous World
Portside
Indigenous peoples in action on five continents! And more news and analysis from all over
Tenochtitlan, the Mexico City Wound That Hasn’t Healed in 500 Years
La Prensa Latina
August 13, 1521, the date on which the contingent of Spanish conquistadors led by Hernan Cortes along with thousands of indigenous allies took over the capital of the Mexica or Aztec empire, the most powerful force in Mesoamerica at the time.
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