President Sheinbaum Seeks Broadcast Law Reform

FRIDAY, MAY 2

PROGRAM #10763 12:00 PM PT 

Mexico Edition. 

After Mexican TV giants broadcast a multimillion, US-government funded anti-immigration ads campaign, Mexico’s President Sheinbaum asked Congress to reform broadcast law to ban propaganda from foreign governments on Mexican media. The legislation is being fast-tracked. On other news, on occasion of May First, an expert comments on recent labor law reform, the state of the movement to organize independent unions, and the state of protections for basic labor rights in Mexico.

Guest: Dr. Javier Salinas, Academic, Researcher and Director, Queretaro Autonomous University Labor Center and Student, Rice University, Houston, TX; excerpts from recent statements by Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo; and by Mexico’s Secretary of Labor and Social Security, Marath Baruch Bolaños.

Photo: Gobierno de México

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