The state leader of the Chiapas branch of the Independent Center of Campesinos and Rural Workers (CIOAC), Luis Hernandez Cruz, told a march of some 15,000 followers in the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, that if the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TRIFE)… Read moreChiapas: campesinos pledge resistance if election overturned
Following an extended debate, a Mexican Senate committee voted 11-3 late Oct. 18 not to dissolve the Oaxaca state government, while demonstrators demanding a solution to the five-month crisis announced plans to escalate protests. In Oaxaca City, a teacher was… Read moreOaxaca: another teacher killed as Senate committee blocks solution
Even Bush appears to be facing the grim music from Iraq. Asked in an ABC News interview Oct. 18 whether he agreed with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s opinion that the violence in Iraq was “the jihadist equivalent of… Read moreIraq: “new caliphate” established?
This marks the first time a church has actually followed through with divesting from companies involved in Israel’s illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian territory. Anglican Parish Disinvests from the Central Board of Finance over Caterpillar Shares The Interfaith Group… Read moreAnglican parish disinvests over Caterpillar shares
Tens of thousands of indigenous people and their allies focused on neoliberal economic programs, US foreign policies and local issues in protests throughout the Americas on Oct. 12, the 514th anniversary of the arrival of European colonizer Christopher Columbus in… Read more“Indigenous resistance” protests held throughout Americas
Thousands of Bolivians marked Oct. 12 with a demonstration in a central plaza in La Paz which was also a show of support for leftist president Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president. Accompanied by indigenous leaders from 12 countries–who… Read moreBolivia: Evo averts crisis, hails day of indigenous resistance
As of the evening of Oct. 15, early returns from Ecuador’s general election that day showed banana magnate Alvaro Noboa leading leftist economist Rafael Correa by about 27% to 22% in the voting for president, virtually guaranteeing that the race… Read moreEcuador: leftist trails as election goes to second round
Chiapas is now the third Mexican state to adopt a statewide alliance of popular organization with the aim of establishing parallel power on the model of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, following Guerrero and Oaxaca itself. The… Read more“Popular Assembly of the People of Chiapas” proclaimed
An official investigation by Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has confirmed the participation of military troops in May’s deadly police operation at the village of San Salvador Atenco. The CNDH reports it has uncovered a document in which the… Read moreMilitary role in Atenco repression: Mexican rights commission
As odds for the legal removal of Gov. Ulises Ruiz seemed to narrow Oct. 16, Oaxaca activists camped out in Mexico City’s historic center began a hunger strike aimed at pressuring the federal government to find a solution to the… Read moreOaxaca activists on hunger strike as Senate mulls solution
Now that it has pretty much been confirmed that North Korea did explode a nuclear bomb, if a very small one, comes the news that it may be ready to repeat the feat on short order. Yes, this is deeply… Read moreMethod to North Korea’s nuclear madness?
From UPI, Oct. 17: Hit-and-run deaths at 10-year high WASHINGTON, DC — Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington show that hit-and-run pedestrian deaths have risen 20 percent since 2000. A total of 974 pedestrians were killed… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
