Supporters of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in Mexico's Chiapas state charge that a rival group is responsible for violence in which a Zapatista follower was killed.
Twenty years after the uprising by the indigenous Zapatistas, land issues continue to produce violence in the Chiapas highlands–sometimes with outside encouragement.
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.
After 13 years in prison, indigenous schoolteacher and activist Alberto Patishtán is finally free, thanks to a presidential pardon–and pressure from around the world.
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.
Police managed to get protesting teachers out of the way in time for Independence Day festivities, but the teachers promised to go on with their fight against "reform."
Dissident teachers continue to fight government efforts to change the education system—this time cutting off access to both houses of Congress and the Mexico City airport.
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.
