The American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) announced May 10 that they have filed a complaint against Tridonex, a Mexican auto parts factory and subsidiary of the Philadelphia-based Cardone Industries, located in the city of Matamoros,… Read moreAFL-CIO files labor suit against Mexico factory
Seven indigenous Maya members of Mexico’s Zapatista movement set sail May 3 from Isla Mujeres, off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, on a trans-Atlantic voyage meant to symbolically reverse the Spanish conquest of Mexico 500 years ago. Sailing in… Read moreZapatistas launch symbolic ‘invasion’ of Spain
Humanitarian response networks in northern Mexico are stretched thin between the growing number of people fleeing violence, poverty, and climate disasters in Central America, the continued expulsion of asylum seekers and migrants who enter the United States irregularly, and the… Read moreNorthern Mexico: aid efforts struggle to keep pace
A Mexican court issued a definitive suspension March 19 against the new Electricity Law that aims to strengthen the state-run company, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). The law is supported by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who wants to increase state… Read moreMexico: court suspends new electricity law
Some 150 are dead, with remote indigenous and campesino communities left stricken and without aid, a week after Hurricane Eta tore through Central America. Eta made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, as a Category 4 storm on Nov. 3…. Read moreVillagers abandoned in Eta’s deadly aftermath
Oscar Eyraud Adams, a community activist in the Mexican border town of Tecate, Baja California, was assassinated in an attack on his home by what local accounts described as an “armed commando” Sept. 24. The following day, his brother-in-law, Óscar… Read moreWater protector slain in Baja California
A march for abortion rights turned violent in Mexico City Sept. 27, as a group of women wearing ski-masks and armed with hammers clashed with police. Members of the Bloque Negro feminist collective joined the protest after departing from the… Read moreMexico City: militant protest for reproductive rights
A communal coffee warehouse in one of the rebel Zapatista base communities in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas was burned down Aug. 22, in an attack by a rival campesino group that operates a paramilitary force in the area. The… Read moreMexico: Zapatista community attacked in Chiapas
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has signed a decree that sets up a Justice Commission for the Yaqui People, seeking to resolve problems of land, water, health, education and infrastructure faced by the indigenous group. The decree was signed… Read moreMexico creates justice commission for Yaqui people
Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador met with Trump at the White House this month to inaugurate the new trade treaty that replaces NAFTA. Embarrassingly, the meeting was punctuated by horrific new outbursts of narco-violence in Mexico. And the country’s promised cannabis… Read moreMexico: narco-dystopia amid Trump-AMLO schmooze
An attack by armed men on local comuneros in the pueblo of San Mateo del Mar, in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state, left at least 15 dead June 22, with several more wounded or reported as “disappeared.” The confrontation began when residents of… Read moreMexico: comuneros massacred in Oaxaca
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets and clashed with riot police in Guadalajara June 4, one month after the killing of a construction worker at the hands of local law enforcement. The rally climaxed with the storming of the Jalisco state government… Read moreGuadalajara protest over Mexico’s ‘George Floyd’
