In episode 128 of Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth open with their take on the repression in Jalisco, where Governor Pablo Lemus and Movimiento Ciudadano are under fire after state police brutally cracked down on a peaceful, family-friendly protest demanding clean water in Guadalajara. The hosts detail the detentions — including a Rappi delivery worker snatched off his motorcycle — the squalid conditions at Casa Jalisco, and the political fallout, from Morena’s push for impeachment to federal human rights investigations. They trace Movimiento Ciudadano’s lineage back to the PRI and explain why the “party of the two lies” keeps revealing itself as the “orange PAN.”
Next, they discuss the IMSS workers’ protests, with thousands marching in Mexico City and 20+ cities demanding 7% of GDP for healthcare, better wages, and medicines that actually reach the clinics. The hosts share their own experience navigating the IMSS system and break down the long neoliberal erosion of Mexican healthcare, and they call out the crocodile tears from the same media outlets that spent decades cheering its privatization. The conversation turns to a solution: tax the rich.
Then they cover the left and the internet. President Sheinbaum goes live on Instagram and TikTok for the first time, calling for regulation of violent online content and addressing Anabel Hernández’s fake news about her marijuana use. They also analyze Meta’s electoral interference in Brazil’s second round, where Lula’s campaign has denounced the blocking of his ads.
Losers and Haters takes aim at Francisco Garduño, former head of Mexico’s National Migration Institute, exonerated of charges in the Ciudad Juárez fire that killed 40 migrants. An apology months late, a mural, and some training modules — the hosts note that when there are no consequences, the conditions that led to the tragedy continue.
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Jalisco Governor Unleashes Repression – Soberanía 128
October 15, 2026
Jalisco’s crackdown on clean-water protesters, the IMSS workers’ march, Sheinbaum’s first Instagram and TikTok live, and Garduño’s exoneration over the Ciudad Juárez fire.
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