The government of Chiapas cancelled a controversial forest protection plan that critics said failed to address root causes of deforestation and endangered indigenous peoples.
Pro-Zapatista indigenous prisoners are gradually being released in Mexico, after years of struggle, but the schoolteacher Alberto Patishtán remains imprisoned.
Israel’s embassy in Mexico City denied widespread reports in the Mexican media that Israeli military advisors are training police in the southern state of Chiapas.
In Argentina residents protest Monsanto's plan for a giant facility in their town; Mexican campesinos worry about contaminated corn; Puerto Ricans want labels on GM food.
Indigenous protesters and dissident schoolteachers joined for a demonstration in solidarity with an imprisoned supporter of the rebel Zapatistas.
One civilian Zapatista supporter has been released from jail in Chiapas, more than 13 months after his arrest, but schoolteacher Alberto Patishtán Gómez is still imprisoned.
An Israeli press account plays a cynical game of connect-the-dots to link Hezbollah and the Zetas to the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas. Don't believe the hype.
Followers of the indigenous pacifist group Las Abejas held a ceremony at the hamlet of Acteal in the Chiapas Highlands to remember the 1997 massacre there and demand justice.
Thousands of Maya followers of the Zapatista rebel movement marched, masked but unarmed, on towns in Mexico's Chiapas state, marking the turning of the Maya calendar.
Mexican drug cartels that use cattle ranching to launder narco-profits as well as Chinese-backed illegal timber gangs are eating into Guatemala's vast Maya Biosphere Reserve.
The US State Department issued a finding that Mexico’s ex-president Ernesto Zedillo should be immune from a suit brought against him in connection with the 1997 Acteal massacre.
An indigenous environmental activist was killed in Mexico's south-central state of Morelos, three days ahead of a planned referendum on an energy development project that he opposed. Samir Flores Soberanes was a leader of the local Peoples in Defense of Land and Water Front and community radio station Amilzinko. He was slain by unknown gunmen in an attack at his home in the village of Amilcingo, Temoac municipality. He was a longtime figure in local opposition to the planned Huexca power plant and associated natural-gas pipeline, pushed by the government under the Morelos Integral Project. (Photo: Somos el Medio)
