Mexico's ruling coalition kept its slim majority in elections marred by violence and assassination of candidates. Striking teachers attempted to disrupt the vote, calling it a farce.
Maya indigenous peasants in Mexico's southern Chiapas state marched cross-country to oppose violence by narco gangs and the corruption of local authorities that protect them.
Zapatista leaders in Chiapas declared support for striking farmworkers in Baja California's San Quintín Valley, who clashed with police at a march for a $13-a-day minium wage.
Reports of a summit of cartel "capos" in Piedras Negras fuel speculation that President Enrique Peña Nieto seeks to rebuild the "Pax Mafiosa" of Mexico's old one-party state.
A new communique from the Zapatistas' Subcommander Marcos states that he is stepping down as the public voice of the indigenous rebel army in Mexico's Chiapas state.
Mexico's Network for Solidarity and Against Repression is calling for international support for the Zapatista base communities in Chiapas state following a wave of attacks.
Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista rebels released a new communique reflecting on the history of the movement since the New Year's Day 1994 uprising.
Eight municipalities in southern Mexico's Chiapas state were declared territories free of mineral or hydro-electric development, asserting principles of local autonomy.
Mexican federal police announced the apprehension of a fugitive Gulf Cartel kingpin, Eduardo Francisco Villatoro Cano AKA “Guayo”—wanted in Guatemala for a bloody attack on police.
The Zapatista rebels in Chiapas charged that military planes are overflying the settlements where they are holding an international activist gathering dubbed the Freedom School.
The July 22 Global Day of Action Against Open-Pit Mining, most widely observed in the Andean nations, also saw coordinated protests in NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada.
The government of Chiapas cancelled a controversial forest protection plan that critics said failed to address root causes of deforestation and endangered indigenous peoples.
