From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, p. 8
The United States embassy in the country announced yesterday the allocation of 23.4 million dollars to continue supporting the consolidation of the Labor Justice System in Mexico, as part of the commitments assumed within the framework of the Mexico, United States and Canada Treaty (T-MEC).
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According to information from the Department of Labor of the neighboring nation, the financing is part of a broader strategy to strengthen the application of labor laws in Mexico and ensure that bilateral trade benefits American workers and companies. Of the total resources announced, 15.4 million dollars were awarded to the Partners of the Americas organization and 8 million to Creative Associates International, both based in the United States.
The projects will be operated through collaboration with the Mexican government, the private sector and workers, with the aim of strengthening compliance with the labor provisions included in the USMCA, negotiated in the first administration of Donald Trump.
According to the US government, these initiatives will focus on practices that depress wages, distort competition and grant unfair commercial advantages to certain actors, to the detriment of workers in their country.
The administration of the resources will be in charge of the Office of International Labor Affairs, which noted that the projects advance Trump’s trade agenda, by demanding that Mexico comply with its commitments on the matter.
The actions will focus on priority sectors of the treaty in Mexico that compete directly with US firms, where, according to Washington, weak application of the law can affect jobs and wages.
