Mexico

Matamoros Strike At A Crossroads As Mexican Government Orders Crackdown

January 29, 2019 Andrea Lobo, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Mexico, Repression, Strikes

On Saturday, the Mexican administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) ordered state, city and trade-union officials to shut down the strike by tens of thousands of workers at roughly 40 “maquiladora” sweatshops owned by US and European capital at the border city of Matamoros. After the government sub-secretary of labor failed on Friday to force workers to end the strike via threats of “unexpected consequences,” the López Obrador administration sent orders Saturday through Morena Senator Ricardo Monreal Àvila, who leads the Senate Committee of Political Coordination (Jucopo)...

Mexican Workers Are Engaging In Wildcat Strikes At The Border

January 28, 2019 Kent Paterson, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Border, Mexico, New Economy, Strikes, Workers

Catalyzed by the Mexican government’s minimum wage hike in the northern border zone, wildcat protests in Mexico’s assembly-for-export industry, or maquiladoras, greeted the first weeks of the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Workers temporarily halted production or walked off the job at mainly foreign-owned automotive and electronic factories in Ciudad Juárez, Matamoros, Agua Prieta and Cananea. A common link in the protests has been company non-payment of production and attendance bonuses typically offered to workers along with a daily wage.

Companies, Union Appeal For Federal Intervention Against Strike In Matamoros

January 24, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Mexico, Strikes, Workers

On Tuesday, the corporations sent appeals to president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) to intervene directly through both repression and by appealing to workers to accept a rotten compromise. nThe Business Coordinating Council (CCE), which includes the largest employer groups in Mexico, sent a communiqué to López Obrador that read, “Appealing to your mandate and authority we ask for your intervention since this moment of instability that the labor and business sectors live in Matamoros can bring irreversible consequences for the region’s economy.”

Mexico Faces Largest Strike In North America, 70,000 Sweatshop Auto Workers

January 18, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Mexico, Strikes, Sweatshops, Workers

As new manufacturing plants join the growing strike in Matamoros, Mexico, over 70,000 workers are confronting threats of mass firings and plant closures by the employers and advancing their fight against social inequality. Amid a media blackout by Mexican and international outlets, the ruling class has demonstrated a profound fear that the rebellion by Matamoros sweatshop workers who produce auto parts and other goods supplying the main auto companies in North America, Europe and Asia will inspire workers to take up the same fight in the rest of the industrial belt along the US-Mexico border and spill over across the North American continent and beyond.

Zapatistas Warn Mexico: ‘We Won’t Back AMLO Projects’

January 3, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! AMLO, Mexico, Zapatistas

"It’s not easy to face political parties and bad governments are the current one: dishonest and deceitful,” said Subcomandante Moises. Mexico's National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) has declared it won’t allow the “death projects” of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in its territory, vowing to maintain autonomy based on Indigenous customs. “We will fight, we will face, we won’t allow him to come here with his destructive projects,” said Subcomandante Moises, without naming Lopez Obrador directly, at the closing ceremony of the 25th anniversary celebrations. “We don’t fear his National Guard, a name chosen instead of army.”

Trump Administration To Immediately Deport New Central American Asylum Seekers To Mexico

December 24, 2018 By Eric London, Countercurrents.org Educate! Asylum, Caravan, Central America, Deportations, Immigration, Mexico, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

The Trump administration announced a new policy that effectively guts the right of asylum for refugees from Central America. From now on, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will begin expelling non-Mexican refugees as soon as they have made application for asylum after crossing the US-Mexico border. They will be immediately deported to Mexico instead of being allowed to stay in the US pending the adjudication of their asylum claims. The Mexican government, taking its orders from Washington, will not oppose these deportations or bring any legal action against the United States for a policy that is in flagrant violation of international law. Its only concession to the refugees is that Mexico will not confine them in US-style detention camps.

AMLO Goes Full Throttle Against Neoliberalism — But What About NAFTA?

December 19, 2018 By Manuel Perez-Rocha, Fpif.org Educate! AMLO, Capitalism, Mexico, NAFTA, USMCA

I had the great fortune to attend the inauguration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (or AMLO, as he is known) as the 58th Mexican president on December 1. The atmosphere at the Legislative Palace was electric with the knowledge that Mexico would be beginning its “Fourth Transformation” — following its 1810 independence, the 1855 reformation, and the 1910 revolution — with the first left-wing presidency in its history. It was AMLO’s third attempt at the office. In 2006 Felipe Calderón orchestrated a cyber fraud that gave him a slim advantage over AMLO. And in order to win in 2012, outgoing president Enrique Peña Nieto engaged in tricks like giving away cash-loaded bank cards.

A Latin American Marshall Plan, At A Discount

December 13, 2018 By Patrick Lawrence, Consortiumnews.com Create! Immigration, Latin America, Mexico, US Imperialism

López Obrador’s $20 billion development plan gives Washington a chance to help rectify the historic damage it’s done to the living conditions of people in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. With President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatening to shut down the government if he doesn’t get his wall, it’s good that someone in a position of authority actually has a workable solution to the migrant crisis festering on the Mexican border with the U.S. The day after Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office as Mexico’s president on Dec. 1, his foreign minister flew to Washington to propose a $20 billion development plan to make Central America a place for people to stay rather than flee.

AMLO’s Inauguration And The Future Of Mexico

December 9, 2018 Laura Carlsen, NACLA. Create! AMLO, Mexico, Neoliberalism

In over two centuries of nationhood, Mexico has never seen a presidential inauguration like that of December 1, 2018. From the pre-dawn Indigenous ceremony to consecrate the bastón de mando—a wooden staff symbolizing government—that representatives of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples would later present to the new president, to the cultural festival that lasted into the night, Andrés Manuel López Obrador broke down pomp and circumstance and promised a new form of government. His most oft-repeated phrase: “I will not let you down.”

New Report: 25 Years Of NAFTA’s Damage To U.S. Latino And Mexican People

December 5, 2018 Citizens Trade Campaign, Popular Resistance. Educate! #NoNAFTA2, Mexico, NAFTA, Workers

Washington, D.C. – With the signing of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Nov. 30 as the migrant crisis at the border escalates, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) and Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch released a timely analysis of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) disproportionate damage to U.S. Latinos and Mexican workers, and whether the NAFTA 2.0 deal would stop it. “While President Trump’s manipulation of grievances over trade and immigration brought him to power, absent from his worldview is the reality that NAFTA was developed by and for multinational corporations seeking to pay workers less and has hurt both U.S. and Mexican workers,”...

López Obrador Inaugurated Surrounded By A Multitude: “For The Good Of All, First The Poor”

December 5, 2018 Staff, Resumen-english.org Educate! AMLO, Electoral Politics, Mexico

The so-called fourth transformation has started its clock in Mexico. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) officially became president this Saturday at 11.20 am. The handover ceremony culminated a long road that the leftist politician began in July 2005 and included two failed attempts to seize power. More than 13 years later, and finally with the tricolor band on his chest, the leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) drew in his first speech a project that seeks to bury decades of neoliberalism. “Mexico’s crisis was caused not only by the failure of the neoliberal model applied for 36 years, but also by the predominance of the most filthy public and private corruption…

Mexico On The Eve Of AMLO – “So Far From God And So Close To The United States”

December 4, 2018 By Roger D. Harris, Mintpressnews.com Educate! AMLO, Electoral Politics, Mexico

The full quote by Porfirio Díaz is: “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” Mexican President Díaz (1876-1880 and 1884-1911) got it at least half right. Mexico has suffered in the shadow of the Colossus of the North, but Mexico is not poor. Mexico is rich in many ways, yet it also has been impoverished. And Mexico has been greatly underappreciated by North Americans. Mexico is bucking an international right-wing tide, shifting its government from right to left-of-center with the presidential inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on December 1. Speaking for international capital, The Economist is worried. The other 99% of humanity is hopeful. A cautionary history of this trice conquered land follows.

AMLO Inaugurated: Promises Profound And Radical Transformation

December 3, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Create! AMLO, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico

AMLO has been a pragmatic center left politician but he seems to be turning into a populist left political leader promising a “profound and radical” transformation. His left government comes at a time when progressive governments are under attack by oligarchs and the United States. He promised to turn his longtime slogan, “For the good of all, the poor first,” into "a principle of government” starting today. He described the transformation he seeks as "profound and radical, because it will end the corruption and impunity that impede Mexico’s rebirth.”

I Am On The Refugee Caravan And Saw The Tear Gas Attack

December 2, 2018 JuanPablo Ramirez-Franco and Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Resist! Border Patrol, Immigration, Mexico, State Violence

On Sunday, the United States fired tear gas on asylum seekers—including children—at the San Ysidro crossing between San Diego and Tijuana. In the days since, the Trump administration has doubled down on its violent stance on the southern border. President Trump has smeared the refugees as “stone cold criminals,” while Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan hit the media circuit to defend the attack. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen made the outrageous—and baseless—assertion that children are being used by refugees as “human shields,” echoing rhetoric used to justify Israeli attacks on Palestinians.

The Empire Will Fall: From Yemen To Tijuana, (Im)Possible Change & Re-Meet NAFTA

November 29, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Mexico, NAFTA, USMCA, Yemen

Our addiction to militarism has to end. From millions-strong protests in Yemen to carte blanche for military force at the border, our violent empire has no dimmer switch – and no self restraint. Next up, the impossible always seems so till you invoke - Planck's constant? This and other news of “impossible change.” Finally, Margaret Flowers from Popular Resistance and Trade for People and Planet sits down with us to discuss the USMCA – what you might know as NAFTA.

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