Despite the serious environmental and health consequences of low green space, in cities like Puebla, Mexico, city and state governments prioritise corporate-led projects that reduce green space further. Tamara Pearson reports.
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Education workers in Mexico are leading a renewed struggle to reclaim public retirement systems from global finance, writes Isabel Villalón.
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador could become Mexico’s first progressive president in generations, but what would such a presidency actually look like? It is not an easy question to answer, though his time as leader of Mexico’s largest city could offer some insights.
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The slow-burn fire sale of Mexico’s public assets could be about to end – or at least, that’s what has market analysts worried.
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The leftist political party led by two-time former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will govern in areas representing more than 8 million people after Mexico's June 7 elections. Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (Morena) took part for the first time in the mid-term elections. It won in six of the 16 districts of Mexico City, breaking the long-time hegemonic rule of the once popular Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) in the country's capital, which won five.