Mexico: Weekly Newsletter
We share the unofficial translation of the lattest Breves Iniciando Semana by Sol Rojo.
In Oaxaca, the celebrations of the people’s and teachers’ Guelaguetza take place on July 19-20-21, an event that has been independently promoted since 2007 in opposition to the official Guelaguetza of the regime. The official Guelaguetza has become an instrument of exploitation and commercialization of the culture and traditions of the rebellious peoples of the state.
Every year, the celebrations begin with welcoming Saturdays, calenda Sundays, and Guelaguetza Mondays, where cultural delegations from the eight regions attend with their regional costumes and dances, highlighting the magisterial and community struggle and giving it a seal of cultural resistance.
Despite multiple contradictions within the movement, the teacher and people’s Guelaguetza remains a space of unity and political coexistence, where, in addition to dance and culture, one can appreciate the agitation and revolutionary propaganda of the most consistent sectors of the movement.
In Mexico City, the second march against gentrification took place on Sunday, July 20, which started from the Fuentes Brotantes Metrobús station in the south of Mexico City. However, unlike the previous march, on this occasion the regime carried out important work in four aspects: 1) intelligence tasks (with informants and surveillance), 2) instilling fear of repression (feeding the most retrograde pacifism), 3) deploying anti-riot police (which encapsulated and surrounded the march throughout its route, protecting private property), and finally, 4) infiltrating provocateurs (who attacked the University Museum of Contemporary Art and the Julio Torri Library of UNAM to demonize anti-gentrification protests).
This is what the security protocol for manifestations announced by Clara Brugada, in the run-up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will have the Azteca Stadium as one of its venues, is all about. What Brugada and her masters forget is that none of this resolves the contradiction between oppressors and oppressed, and the pressure cooker continues to accumulate more pressure.
The cultural resistance of the peoples and the struggle against gentrification in defense of public spaces, services, and popular housing are equally legitimate expressions of the struggle against colonialism.
Long live the cultural resistance of the peoples! Down with gentrification!
