Mexico: Newspaper Mural – March-April 2026 Editorial
We hereby share an unofficial translation of the Editorial published by Mural Newspaper on the 2nd of April.
In our previous issue we pointed out the general tendency of imperialism towards a new international conflagration. This tendency is rooted in the economic crisis that runs through the system from start to finish, like a virus it cannot escape. The crisis is neither temporary nor seasonal; it is a structural phenomenon embedded in its DNA and the only way it can survive it is by making war for a new division of the world, treating peoples as spoils.
Yankee imperialism, which since the capitalist restoration in the USSR has been the sole world hegemonic superpower, today faces a severe process of decomposition and wear. Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency in January 2025 is not due to a merely media factor, but to the need of the financial oligarchy and its most reactionary aegis to restore its position, centralizing capital and industrial production, imposing “new rules” in the market by launching tariff policies and trade agreements of unilateral interest, and clearly, recovering zones of influence and contending for new ones. The current war of aggression by Yankee imperialism and the Zionist entity against Iran is part of this scheme, and was only possible after the military aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the lawyer Cilia Flores. The U.S. needed to guarantee control of Venezuelan oil for itself, and after that publicly subordinate the Mexican State by dictating to whom it should sell oil and to whom it should not, imposing an energy blockade against Cuba. Thus, with Venezuelan and Mexican oil in its pocket, Yankee imperialism launched a new aggression thinking of reviving the blitzkrieg (lightning war) of Nazi-fascist Germany with which WWII begani.
However, as in any war, besides the barbarism and slaughter of peoples that it entails, one of the first impacts is seen in the economy, raising the price of fuels, energy in general, and fertilizers, which triggers a chain rise in basic goods prices. After this come cuts in employment and wages.
Mexico is beginning to feel the first symptoms of this problem, with increases in the price of diesel and premium gasoline (red), which in Mexico City alone have reached $28.69 and $29.29, respectively. In the north of the country prices range between $34 (diesel) and $31 (premium), while in the south prices are around $28.49 (diesel) and $29.49 (premium). In response, the technocratic government of Claudia Sheinbaum has agreed with gas station owners on a “voluntary cap” of $28.50 for diesel, since it is the fuel for freight and passenger transport; however, no one appears to be respecting it and the increase continues. During the first half of March the so-called National Consumer Price Index (INPC) recorded an increase of 0.62%, reflected in an annual inflation of 4.63%. This is only the beginning; very soon the big bourgeoisie will begin to raise the cost of the basic basket, public transport, and household expenses, shattering the illusion of the minimum wage having accumulated 150% over seven years of governments of the self-proclaimed “Fourth Transformation.”
This raises the need to identify the connection between the international-national situation and the effects it has on our way of life, work and study. The general crisis of imperialism will be felt with its full weight on the shoulders of the people of Mexico. We must organize the forces of workers and peoples by developing the struggle in defense of work, wage increases, and democratic rights, against the high cost of living and unemployment. The crisis should be paid for by the great rich. But demands alone are not enough; we will need to link them organically with the national liberation struggle of an anti-imperialist character that demand Anáhuac and Our America to be free.
- iSecond Imperialist World War.
