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Mexico passes ‘education reform’; demos continue
Peña Nieto has gotten Congress to pass three measures he says will improve public schools; teachers say the laws are part of a program for dumbing down the system.
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Mexico: thousands march against ‘energy reform’
President Peña Nieto’s “reforms” include higher sales taxes, teacher evaluations, loss of labor protections and energy sector privatization. Will opponents be able to unite against the plan?
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Mexico: delays in Shabazz murder inquiry protested
Afro-Mexican activists say the authorities are failing to investigate Malcolm Shabazz’s murder properly, just as happened with a Nigerian immigrant’s death in 2011.
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Mexico: teachers start new strike 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.
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Mexico: activists protest GMO corn with giant banner
Greenpeace activists scaled a 104-meter monument to bring attention to plans by Monsanto and other companies for drastically expanding the use of transgenic corn in Mexico.
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Mexico: Malcolm X grandson murdered in DF bar
Mexican authorities believe that the grandson of renowned African American leader Malcolm X was killed by barroom enforcers who were just after money.
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Mexico: dissident teachers march against “reform”
Teachers marched and held strikes in much of southern Mexico to protest both the former teachers union head and the government that arrested her last month for corruption.
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Mexico: at least 37 dead in Pemex explosion
The authorities now blame gas accumulation for a blast that killed at least 37 people at the headquarters of Mexico’s accident-prone state oil monopoly.
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Mexico: high court rules against electrical workers
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled against thousands of laid-off electrical workers who want to be hired by a state enterprise after the government shut down their former employer.
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Mexico: remaining Dec. 1 detainees freed
Mexico City released 14 people held for almost four weeks on charges of “attacks on the public peace” during protests against the inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Mexico: evidence mounts of police repression on Dec. 1 inaugural
Protesters charge agents repeatedly attacked, beat and arrested peaceful demonstrators and bystanders while failing to arrest the people who had been engaged in vandalism.
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Mexico: Peña Nieto takes office as youths riot
Protests against Enrique Peña Nieto during his inauguration quickly turned into violent clashes between police and demonstrators that disrupted much of downtown Mexico City.