From El Universal, Nov. 9 via Chiapas95 (our translation): GENEVA, Switzerland – The Federal Prosecutor of the Republic [PGR] admitted that following the police operation of this past May in San Salvador Atenco, sexual abuses and torture were committed against… Read moreMexico admits torture in Atenco case
Campesinos organized by the National Front of Struggle for Socialism (FNLS) blocked four central highways in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state Nov. 10, including the Panamerican Highway and the coastal frontier highway, in solidarity with the Popular People’s Organization of Oaxaca… Read moreChiapas campesinos again block roads for Oaxaca
From El Universal, Nov. 10 via Chiapas95: One of the most horrific crimes in recent Mexico City history – the 2004 beating and burning to death of two federal police officers by a mob of residents in the Tlahuac district… Read moreEPR guerillas behind Mexico City police lynching?
From AP, Nov. 11: Editor Found Dead in Mexican Hotel Room A newspaper editor was found dead in a hotel room in this Pacific resort city, a day after running stories about organized crime and corruption in the city government…. Read moreMexico: newspaper editor killed in Guerrero?
From AFP via Qatar’s Gulf Times, Nov. 12 (commentary to follow): Iran vows to hit back if Israel launches attack TEHRAN — Iran’s armed forces yesterday vowed to hit back against any military strike after a top Israeli official refused… Read moreIsrael threatens Iran —again!
Boy, does this ever give us deja vu. Back in the ’80s, the State Department played an anti-Semitism card against Sandinista Nicaragua, just as as the right does today against Bolivarian Venezuela. Daniel Ortega hasn’t even taken office yet, and… Read moreAnti-Semitism card played against Sandinista Nicaragua —already!
From the Associated Press, Nov. 9: Wanted Mexican leftist says Oaxaca rebellion will spread OAXACA, Mexico — Flavio Sosa is remarkably relaxed for a wanted man. As the most visible leader of a leftist movement that has rattled the Vicente… Read moreOaxaca: APPO’s Flavio Sosa speaks
From the NY Daily News, Nov. 9: SUV kills Brooklyn boy, 5 An SUV fleeing a fender bender jumped a Brooklyn sidewalk and mowed down a mother and her three children as they held hands – killing a 5-year-old boy,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Responding to the Nov. 6 bomb attacks in Mexico City, Mexico’s contested president-elect Felipe Calderon pledged to “work arduously to recover the capacity of the state to face delinquency and terrorism… I have to be honest about this approach, it… Read moreMexico: Calderon pledges bloody campaign against “terrorism”
Kinda heartwarming, eh? From The Telegraph, Nov. 8: Jews and Muslims unite against homosexuals Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have found common ground in their fierce opposition to a gay rights rally due to be held in the city this… Read moreBigotry unites monotheistic faiths
As Mexico’s federal Government Secretary Carlos Abascal appealed to Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to reconsider his stated intention to remain in office, thousands of the embattled governor’s supporters rallied in the streets of Oaxaca City Nov. 7. That same… Read moreDueling marches in Oaxaca; “governability” still not restored
Note the last paragraph. Tajikistan, it seems, is the new Uzbekistan. Islam Karimov may now be Moscow’s son of a bitch. But Emomali Rakhmonov is (as FDR said of Nicaraguan dictator Anastaio Somoza) “our son of a bitch.” From Pakistan’s… Read moreTajikistan: autocrat holds pseudo-election
