On Monday, July 21, Operation Liberation was implemented, a broad security operation deployed by state and federal authorities in at least 11 municipalities in the State of Mexico, primarily in the southern and northern regions. The objective was to dismantle the financial structures of organized crime, specifically cells associated with the Familia Michoacana, which have […]

This Saturday, July 26, the third march against gentrification will take place, organized by the Youth Housing Front. The march will go from the Hemiciclo a Juárez to the U.S. Embassy, in a demonstration that seeks to denounce the dispossession of communities, forced displacement, and the advance of real estate capital. How much does it […]

Mayor Clara Brugada Molina reported that the intense rains recorded on Saturday, July 19, left a cumulative total of more than 23 million cubic meters of water in Mexico City, with a critical point in the Magdalena Contreras borough, where the San Francisco rain gauge recorded 60.7 millimeters of precipitation in less than an hour. […]

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico warned U.S. citizens about the anti-gentrification demonstration in the capital. It also asked U.S. citizens to avoid participating in the social movement. “U.S. citizens should avoid participating in demonstrations that authorities may consider political, as Mexican law prohibits political participation by foreign citizens, and their participation may result in detention […]

Sections 9, 10, 11, and 60 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) will hold a mega-march next Thursday, July 17, in Mexico City to mark the closing of the stage of their struggle, in which, after 22 days of strikes, they secured a salary increase and other benefits. A day later, they will […]

In recent years, residents of Mexico City (CDMX) and academics have highlighted the spread of a socioeconomic phenomenon whose name is now widely known: gentrification. As a result, groups that had already taken to the streets to demonstrate against it for the first time called for a second march. Two weeks after the demonstration that […]

The Rainwater Harvesting program, promoted by the city government since 2019 and implemented in 11 municipalities, was suspended this year. The Ministry of the Environment (Sedema) brigades that toured neighborhoods with drinking water shortages stopped looking for homes to install rooftop Rainwater Harvesting Systems (SCALL). “The operating rules were no longer published this year,” said […]

The Mexico City Congress approved a request for local authorities to strengthen the “Safe Purchase” program to prevent fraud and crimes related to the purchase and sale of vehicles in the capital. Members of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) highlighted the need to increase vehicle identification modules in all of the capital’s municipalities. […]

This year’s CDMX Half Marathon honored the 700th anniversary of the founding of the great Tenochtitlán. With quetzals on their chests and dreams on their feet, 30,000 runners turned the capital’s dawn into an act of resistance, memory, and community. Before the city had fully awakened, there were already those paying homage. At six o’clock […]