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![Employees at a plant of the German carmaker Audi protest over wage demands in San José Chiapa, Puebla state, Mexico, on January 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1950960900-400x300.jpg)
UAW Is Building Worker Solidarity Across the US-Mexico Border
A new initiative aims to unite Mexican and US workers who have for too long been pitted against each other by bosses.
![People during the collection and separation of waste that arrives daily at the largest garbage dump in Mexico Bordo de Xochiaca, on August 31, 2021, in Mexico City, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1234986793-400x300.jpg)
Pollution Crisis in Mexico Shows Limits of Plastic Bag Bans in Global Capitalism
Mexican states like Puebla have banned plastic bags, but waste is overflowing due to exempt transnational companies.
![Guns seized from organized crime are laid out for destruction by the Ministry of National Defense on March 22, 2023, in Santa María Rayon, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1249128995-400x300.jpg)
Mexico’s Lawsuit Against US Gunmakers Could Drive Manufacturers Into Bankruptcy
According to the lawsuit, feeding demand for illegal weapons is central to the industry's business model.
![People walk beside the us/mexico border wall](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/01/2024_0108-border-wall-400x300.jpg)
An Open Border Could Benefit Us All. Instead, Both Parties Want to Build a Wall.
The GOP pushed Texas’s horrific new bills into law, but both parties have stoked expansion of immigration policing.
![Blinken Meets with Mexican President as Biden Pushes Trump-Like Border Policies](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/seg-migrants-blinken-400x300.jpg)
Blinken Meets With Mexican President as Biden Pushes Trump-Like Border Policies
Up to 10,000 people a day are being arrested at the southern border as Biden adopts the GOP’s anti-immigrant framework.
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Mexican Ecologists Launch Campaign to Save Threatened Amphibian from Extinction
Mexico fights to save endangered axolotls as population declines 99.5 percent.
![Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a podium](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1031-maduro-400x300.jpg)
Latin American Leaders Reject US-Imposed Migration Policies at Palenque Summit
At the Palenque Summit in Mexico City, Latin American leaders blamed coercive U.S. policies for the migration crisis.
![People stand on a beach as a storm kicks up waves](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1025-hurricane-otis-400x300.jpg)
After Stunning Intensification, Hurricane Otis Hits Acapulco as Category 5 Storm
The most powerful hurricane to ever make landfall in Mexico sparks warnings of catastrophic flooding and mudslides.
![Women from various feminist collectives take part during a demonstration in the Zócalo of Mexico City within the framework of the Global Day of Action for Access to Legal, Free, Safe and Free Abortion that seeks to decriminalize this practice to prevent more deaths from clandestine abortion practices. on September 28, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo credit should read Alex Dalton/ Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images)](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/09/GettyImages-1243593629-400x300.jpg)
Mexico’s Supreme Court Rules to Federally Decriminalize Abortion
The ruling represents a shift toward a society “in which the rights of everyone are respected,” one lawmaker said.
![Haitian refugees living on the streets of Mexico City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/IMG_1498-400x300.jpg)
Mexico’s Migrant Shelters Are Operating at 900% Capacity Due to US Border Policy
The end of Title 42 obscures a harsh reality: New policies have created a dangerous limbo for migrants in Mexico.