Claudia Sheinbaum has never stopped working, never stopped engaging in political struggle to better the lives of Mexicans. She became a political activist in the 1980s as a student leader at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City (CDMX). Later, even as a doctoral student at Berkeley, she demonstrated against Mexico’s president, Salinas del Gortari. In 2006, she campaigned with AMLO as his spokesperson and could be seen at his side during protests.

In 2000, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was governor of CDMX, and thanks to the recommendation of someone close to him, he appointed her secretary of the environment. During AMLO’s and Claudia’s tenure from 2000-2005, Mexico City saw the opening of the Metrobús, Mexico City’s rapid transit system. (CDMX has the second largest metropolis in the hemisphere, and its left government had been strengthening the transportation network since 1997.) Her administration implemented air quality measurements in a city suffering from persistent pollution in high particulate matter and ozone, especially between the months of February and June.

In 2014, activists from many social movements founded Morena, and, not surprisingly, Sheinbaum was also a founder.

But Claudia became her own political figure in 2015 when she was elected mayor of Tlalpan, a borough of CDMX. A few years later, in 2021, CDMX itself elected her as their first woman head of government. As a scientist, she had a vision of a much better quality of life for the capital's residents, and she now worked to implement it. Her work made CDMX a safer city — she employed thousands more police and corrupt, repressive forces largely disappeared.

Claudia improved the city’s transportation system — the 40-year-old line 1 of the Metrobús was mostly renovated, and the entire fleet of 30-year-old trolleybuses was entirely renovated. For the first time, all CDMX transportation was united into a single system, with new public transportation established in previously neglected places. Although more always remains to be done, her accomplishments in transportation stand as an amazing tribute to her hard work and her commitment to the people.

Claudia Sheinbaum will soon continue that tireless work in Mexico’s highest office, the presidency. The symbolism of a female president offers millions of women and girls the possibility of becoming leaders and decision-makers in their country. She has provided a space for women in politics, a space once only for men.

Recent news reports and commentaries, from progressive and mainstream media,
on life and struggles on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Compiled by Jay Watts.

Tony Wood, Mexico in Flux: Birth of a New Party System New Left Review. The Western Left still remains perplexed or ill-informed about (for reasons alluded to in this piece) about AMLO, the 4th Transformation and the politics of the world’s 11th largest economy, or worse - patronizing - but after Claudia Sheinbaum’s electoral victory there are some attempts, like this, to grapple with what it might mean.

Reyes Martínez Torrijos, El FCE cumplió en convertirse en una editorial popular: Taibo II La Jornada. El escritor habló en entrevista de los logros en los pasados cinco años del sello editorial estatal que dirige, así como del aniversario 90, que incluye poner 90 libros a mitad de precio.

Luis Chaparro, The DEA Has An Armed Branch in Mexico to Steal Drugs, Kill Narcos From the 2022 quiet firing of the DEA’s top official in Mexico Nicholas Palmeri due to his close relationship with Miami drug traffickers to the recent attempt to interfere in the Mexican election to this most recent revelation that US DEA agents have been robbing organized crime groups for their own benefit, the narco wing of US imperialism has never been dirtier.

Juan Estrella, El código postal. La compleja barrera de la desigualdad para la Cuarta Transformación Intervención y Coyuntura. “Ya sacó el código postal”, suele ser la expresión utilizada en tono jocoso y de verdad última, para señalar la procedencia de una persona de un lugar pobre y con alta conflictividad social. Aunque, en un primer momento, podría entenderse gracioso, guarda mucho de discriminación, pero no menos de verdad.

Timothy A. Wise, Monocultures of the Genetically Modified Mind: My surreal encounter with Monsanto in Mexico The Startup. Why would Mexico, with its rich diversity of this important national and global food crop, want to take such high risks with such low rewards? Powerful corporate interests and US imperialism shaped the approach to Monsanto and corn in years previous, but that may be coming to an end.

Luis Hernández Navarro, La larga travesía de la educación alternativa La Jornada. Con el nombramiento de Mario Delgado, ex administrador de las reformas educativas neoliberales durante el oscuro período de Enrique Peña Nieto, la posibilidad de una pedagogía liberadora puede parecer lejana, pero la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) seguirá luchando por ella. , como lo han hecho durante décadas.

Martín Coronado, México’ shelters at northern border fear rise in migrants due to Biden’ regulating policy AOL. Shelters on México’s northern border fear a new wave of migration two weeks after President Joe Biden announced he would regulate the immigration status of hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants married to Americans and their children.

Eduardo Luis Hernández, David Harvey: “Si tienes una vivienda, pero queda en un desierto sin servicios, ¿cuál es su función?” El País. El geógrafo inglés participa en Ciudad de México en el Foro Vivienda Justa y Prosperidad Compartida e imparte una cátedra sobre el derecho a las ciudades y el panorama de vivienda en el país.

Michael Dorgan, John Deere announces mass layoffs in Midwest amid production shift to Mexico Fox News. Over 600 production staff at plants in Illinois and Iowa are being let go this summer.

Ana Alicia Solís y Max Ortega, Poder político: Sistema político, Sistema de partidos, Sistemas electorales y los resultados de las votaciones del 2 de junio del 2024 Parte I (y Parte II) Intervención y Coyuntura. Los resultados de las elecciones de 2024 produjeron nuevas modificaciones en los equilibrios políticos creados en el 2018. Las clases sociales, las elites políticas y las burocracias partidarias se reacomodaron. El poder de la clase dominante permaneció, pero un poco más delimitado. Los espacios de representación, representatividad y organización política se ampliaron para las clases subalternas.