https://znetwork.org/category/place/north-america/mexico/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:32:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/north-america/mexico/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-empire-next-door-protests-in-mexico-grow/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-empire-next-door-protests-in-mexico-grow/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:32:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293971 An anti-imperialist movement is building in Mexico, where the U.S. invasion of Venezuela has been seen as an act of intimidation for all of Latin America. Protests are swelling in response to this latest blow after decades of political and economic subjugation by its neighbor to the north. Across the country, larger-than-usual marches on January [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-empire-next-door-protests-in-mexico-grow/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/claudia-sheinbaum-i-love-you/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/claudia-sheinbaum-i-love-you/#respond Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293032 I have a crush on Claudia Sheinbaum, who has been president of Mexico since October 2024. Foreign leaders usually strike me as more intelligent and accomplished than the ones we produce in the US. President Sheinbaum, a climate change scientist with a doctorate in energy engineering, is no exception. I wish we had someone like [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/claudia-sheinbaum-i-love-you/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2025/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2025/#respond Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:24:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292944 It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But we also had real victories that moved us closer to a better world. Here are some of my highlights from 2025: 1. Israel was forced to negotiate a ceasefire In October, a ceasefire [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2025/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-mexicos-astroturfed-gen-z-uprising/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-mexicos-astroturfed-gen-z-uprising/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:01:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291541 Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, exposes Mexico’s so-called Gen Z protests as a staged, astroturfed destabilization campaign. He breaks down the march, from the near absence of actual youth to violent scenes in the Zócalo, staged for international consumption — prompting Trump to say he’d be “okay” with airstrikes and the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-mexicos-astroturfed-gen-z-uprising/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-gen-z-protests-under-the-microscope-foreign-funding-bot-networks-and-color-revolution-2-0-pattern/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-gen-z-protests-under-the-microscope-foreign-funding-bot-networks-and-color-revolution-2-0-pattern/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:19:00 +0000 Mexico is now the latest flashpoint in a wave of Gen Z-led uprisings sweeping parts of Asia and Latin America, as violent clashes erupted across the capital last week. But the confrontation has quickly escalated far beyond the streets — morphing into a geopolitical standoff over foreign interference, digital manipulation, and hemispheric power politics. President [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-gen-z-protests-under-the-microscope-foreign-funding-bot-networks-and-color-revolution-2-0-pattern/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-right-wing-has-used-ai-and-influencers-to-make-up-an-anti-government-movement-in-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-right-wing-has-used-ai-and-influencers-to-make-up-an-anti-government-movement-in-mexico/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:36:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291331 “Down with communism,” they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and inequality. The right-wing march was also meant to be a Generation Z protest, but most of the people I could see among the 1,000 or so marching through the center [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-right-wing-has-used-ai-and-influencers-to-make-up-an-anti-government-movement-in-mexico/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-citys-utopias-a-model-of-urban-ecosocialism-in-practice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-citys-utopias-a-model-of-urban-ecosocialism-in-practice/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:59:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291149 Imagine that in the poorest neighborhoods of Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago, you could find a public park with glistening swimming pools, world-class sports and recreation facilities, and spectacular landscape architecture rather than vacant lots. If you are a single mother, rather than being forced  to lug your clothes blocks away to pay to wash your [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-citys-utopias-a-model-of-urban-ecosocialism-in-practice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/collaborations-can-drive-transitioning-to-alternative-energy-regimes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/collaborations-can-drive-transitioning-to-alternative-energy-regimes/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:35:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290567 Energy sustains life. Yet, the hegemonic model for generating, transforming, transporting, and using energy is highly destructive of life. Alternative energy models that break with the capitalist, patriarchal, racist, statist, and anthropocentric dimensions of the hegemonic energy model are therefore much needed. One such Alternative concerns the Energía para yeknemilis (Buen Vivir) en la Sierra [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/collaborations-can-drive-transitioning-to-alternative-energy-regimes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-president-sheinbaums-triumphant-year-one/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-president-sheinbaums-triumphant-year-one/#respond Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289776 On September 15, Claudia Sheinbaum — the first woman president in Mexico’s history — stepped onto the balcony of the National Palace to perform the ritual grito, or cry of independence. In keeping with her government’s drive to recognize overlooked female figures in Mexican history, she included among the familiar pantheon of independence heroes names such [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-president-sheinbaums-triumphant-year-one/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/communal-care-backbone-of-resistance-in-oaxaca/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/communal-care-backbone-of-resistance-in-oaxaca/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:12:30 +0000 The women of the Mazatecas for Freedom collective carried glowing torches along the seashore as they began their march to the federal courthouse in Boca del Río, Veracruz. On September 2, they set up a protest camp in the coastal city to demand an end to the judicial torture the Mexican state has subjected them [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/communal-care-backbone-of-resistance-in-oaxaca/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-would-be-fine-to-help-make-mexico-a-happy-place/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-would-be-fine-to-help-make-mexico-a-happy-place/#respond Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:38:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288518 When I was in graduate school, I audited a class taught by Friedrich Katz (1927–2010), one of the great historians of Mexico of his generation. During the Second World War, Katz’s father Leo was a journalist who was part of the anti-Nazi resistance in Berlin and later smuggled weapons from France to the Spanish Republic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-would-be-fine-to-help-make-mexico-a-happy-place/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sonora-river-in-resistance-a-resounding-no-to-the-dams/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sonora-river-in-resistance-a-resounding-no-to-the-dams/#respond Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288500 That is what has been heard since December of last year, when the Movement in Defense of Water, Territory and Life was created, born out of a call to an academic event in the Industrial Engineering Auditorium at the University of Sonora. The diagnosis from the academics was precise: if the project of the three dams were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sonora-river-in-resistance-a-resounding-no-to-the-dams/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mayan-art-mayan-land/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mayan-art-mayan-land/#respond Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:37:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287672 The milpa (a food garden based around maize crops that relies on ancestral techniques), the community kitchen, and assembly halls are places of learning for people of all ages in the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern Mexico. On May 3, the Autonomous iik’naj Cultural Center was inaugurated in the city of Ticul, Yucatán. The Center combines all three vital learning [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mayan-art-mayan-land/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-the-us-invade-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-the-us-invade-mexico/#respond Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:35:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287131 The Limits of Friendship Donald Trump is proving time and again to foreign leaders that counting on friendly relations is senseless. Most recently, India, Canada, Ukraine, and Brazil discovered that, contrary to expectations, Trump is not influenced by historical ties or long-term common interests. He will treat them like adversaries if there is immediate advantage [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-the-us-invade-mexico/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-is-showing-the-world-how-to-stand-up-to-donald-trump/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-is-showing-the-world-how-to-stand-up-to-donald-trump/#respond Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285822 On Sunday, March 9, over 350,000 people crammed into Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, in repudiation of US president Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just days before, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the reaching of an agreement which, under the cover of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), would exempt Mexico from most of the levies. “Fortunately, dialogue [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-is-showing-the-world-how-to-stand-up-to-donald-trump/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/upside-down-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/upside-down-world/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:04:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284494 Believe it or not, I had a transcendent experience at this year’s Border Security Expo, the annual event that brings Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) together with private industry. I hesitate to describe it that way, though, because I was on the exhibition hall floor and instantly found myself in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/upside-down-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/feminist-debates-producing-and-demanding-justice-in-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/feminist-debates-producing-and-demanding-justice-in-mexico/#respond Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:45:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284438 In Argentina, the popular feminist uprising has yet to halt the worst aspects of President Javier Milei’s right-wing economic policies, which have installed what Gago describes as “state-led anti-feminism.” In Mexico, we are undergoing a peculiar process of immense confusion, and must carefully try to identify the main nodes of conflict.  According to high-ranking officials [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/feminist-debates-producing-and-demanding-justice-in-mexico/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/militarization-another-drain-on-the-rio-grande/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/militarization-another-drain-on-the-rio-grande/#respond Fri, 30 May 2025 17:03:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284398 A persistent hum echoes on the banks of the Río Grande, under the Guadalupe-Tornillo International Bridge. It’s the heavy hauling engines of cargo trucks crossing from Mexico into Texas. Straining your ear, you might still make out the crickets’ song. In the distance, a single turtle dove coos. “Over there, you can still see water,” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/militarization-another-drain-on-the-rio-grande/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-mexican-gm-workers-get-a-fair-union-election/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-mexican-gm-workers-get-a-fair-union-election/#comments Fri, 23 May 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284126 Workers at a second General Motors assembly plant in Mexico are campaigning to join SINTTIA (the National Auto Workers Union), the independent union that won a landmark election to represent workers at another Mexican GM plant in 2022. The 6,500 workers at the San Luis Potosí plant produce the GMC Terrain and the Chevrolet Trax [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-mexican-gm-workers-get-a-fair-union-election/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/organized-crime-and-paramilitary-rule-in-chiapas-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/organized-crime-and-paramilitary-rule-in-chiapas-mexico/#respond Sat, 17 May 2025 10:33:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283852 Residents of highlands, central and border regions of the Mexican state of Chiapas are living under Pax Narca, a kind of “peace” among drug traffickers. On December 8, 2024, Eduardo Ramirez Aguilar of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), took office as governor of Chiapas. One of his biggest promises has been to achieve “peace” in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/organized-crime-and-paramilitary-rule-in-chiapas-mexico/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-activists-are-building-digital-defenses-against-big-tech-colonialism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-activists-are-building-digital-defenses-against-big-tech-colonialism/#respond Thu, 15 May 2025 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283769 In Mexico, the tech oligarchy is thriving. Amazon is increasing its spending and plans to lavish $6 billion in U.S. currency in Mexico during this year and next. Meanwhile, the multinational technology company Nvidia is manufacturing AI servers (exempted from tariffs) at factories in Mexico. Roughly 60 percent of the U.S.’s AI servers are made in Mexico, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-activists-are-building-digital-defenses-against-big-tech-colonialism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-usa-problem/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-usa-problem/#respond Fri, 02 May 2025 15:04:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283274 Donald Trump is on a rampage. His second presidency is off to an even more explosive start than the first. Much of Trump’s approach consists of trial and error, feeling out where he’ll encounter more or less resistance. There isn’t always a plan, but there is a goal: to protect the United States from a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-usa-problem/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unmoved-by-tariff-threats-mexican-gm-workers-win-a-double-digit-wage-hike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unmoved-by-tariff-threats-mexican-gm-workers-win-a-double-digit-wage-hike/#respond Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:31:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282769 Mexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 percent,” said Norma Leticia Cabrera Vasquez about management’s offer at bargaining. “We knew they were going to show up with that, but we said, ‘We still have weeks [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unmoved-by-tariff-threats-mexican-gm-workers-win-a-double-digit-wage-hike/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beetles-and-bandits-threaten-mexico-states-forests/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beetles-and-bandits-threaten-mexico-states-forests/#respond Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:59:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282312 Every spring and summer, a team of biologists monitors forests in the State of Mexico, outside of Mexico City, looking for insects known as wood borers. These small beetles tunnel under tree bark, killing their hosts and threatening the entire ecosystem. Borers can wipe out hectares of forest by feeding on trunks and laying their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beetles-and-bandits-threaten-mexico-states-forests/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-tariffs-and-the-dollar-as-the-world-reserve-currency/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-tariffs-and-the-dollar-as-the-world-reserve-currency/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:39:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281030 With Trump threatening to impose big taxes (tariffs) on imports from all our major trading partners, many people are desperate to find some grand scheme that would justify this seeming absurdity. Just to be clear, as economic policy, Trump’s tariffs are absurd. There can be arguments for tariffs as part of an industrial policy that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-tariffs-and-the-dollar-as-the-world-reserve-currency/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-citys-trolleybus-workers-took-on-austerity-and-won/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-citys-trolleybus-workers-took-on-austerity-and-won/#respond Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:00:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280946 The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13. Their union, the Tram Workers Alliance of Mexico (Alianza de Tranviarios de México, ATM), secured vital investments in green transportation and saved hundreds of jobs in a 2016 “Save the Trolleybus” campaign [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexico-citys-trolleybus-workers-took-on-austerity-and-won/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-vision-is-mexican-humanism-and-fraternity-among-peoples/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-vision-is-mexican-humanism-and-fraternity-among-peoples/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280854 Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the Republic, from all social strata and of all ages, gathered in the Zócalo in Mexico City to show their support for the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.With flags of unions, town halls and universities and under a blazing sun, the crowd greeted Claudia with shouts [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-vision-is-mexican-humanism-and-fraternity-among-peoples/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/speak-claudia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/speak-claudia/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:36:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280578 Watching that procession of hapless European supplicants passing through the Oval Office this week, my mind wandered briefly and came back with an imaginary scene I found pleasurable and instructive all at once: What if Claudia Sheinbaum went to see President Trump right after Andrzej Duda, the ineffectual Polish president, Emmanuel Macron, the ineffectual French [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/speak-claudia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/indigenous-women-and-caregiving-in-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/indigenous-women-and-caregiving-in-mexico/#respond Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280360 On February 19, 2025, Mexican legislators presented Congress with the third component of a bill that would mandate the creation of a National Caregiving System. NGOs such as Oxfam and community and grassroots collectives including the National Network of Indigenous Women Lawyers have pressed for this among legislators and the public as a whole. Their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/indigenous-women-and-caregiving-in-mexico/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-balance-of-payments-war-on-the-whole-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-balance-of-payments-war-on-the-whole-world/#comments Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:13:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279342 The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance partners, would find themselves in a scrape in some country, and Bing would get out of it by selling Bob [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-balance-of-payments-war-on-the-whole-world/feed/ 1