Mexico: police attack teachers’ strike encampment
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."
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."
As the US considers expanding its guest worker programs, a group of retired guest workers show up to ask what happened to their pensions.
In the latest US intelligence scandal, the NSA is caught bragging about its ability to intercept messages to and from the presidents of Latin America’s two largest countries.
PeƱa 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.
A vigilante calling herself Dianaā the Hunter claimed credit for the slaying of two bus drivers in Ciudad JuĆ”rez, calling it revenge for sexual abuse of women by night-shift drivers.
President PeƱa 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?
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.
Mexican army troops disarmed hundreds of members of the “community police” peasant self-defense movement after a brief scuffle on the coastal highway in Guerrero state.
As many as 300 undocumented Central American migrants may have been riding on top of a freight train when it derailed, killing six or more and leaving dozens injured.
Dissident teachers continue to fight government efforts to change the education systemāthis time cutting off access to both houses of Congress and the Mexico City airport.
The Sinaloa Cartel’s Sandra Ćvila BeltrĆ”n, dubbed the “Queen of the Pacific” by the Mexican media, was released by US authorities but faces fresh charges in her home country.
US companies are enthusiastic about PeƱa Nieto’s plan to let them share in the profits from Mexico’s energy sector. Mexicans are getting ready to fight against the giveaway.