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.
Mexican authorities believe that the grandson of renowned African American leader Malcolm X was killed by barroom enforcers who were just after money.
President Obama said he will wait until he meets with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto this week to discuss Mexico's decision to curtail access of US security agencies.
Teacher protests against a US-style education “reform” program turned violent in Guerrero as masked men attacked the offices of several political parties.
Monsanto continues its drive to spread its transgenic corn over Mexico, at the cost of destroying the native varieties and devastating local production.
Violence continues to escalate in Mexico’s west-central state of Michoacán, with transport suspended to several conflicted towns, leaving them cut off from the outside world.
Indigenous protesters and dissident schoolteachers joined for a demonstration in solidarity with an imprisoned supporter of the rebel Zapatistas.
Six people were strangled to death and one decapitated in the tourist resort of Cancún, while shoot-outs and new mass graves are reported from Monterrey and Tamaulipas.
The fight against US-style education “reforms” seems to be getting more militant as Guerrero teachers announce a coalition modeled on the one that shook up Oaxaca in 2006.
Several were killed in confrontations across Mexico’s violence-torn Michoacán state—including when gunmen fired on crowds commemorating the death of Emiliano Zapata.
Dissident teachers in Mexico spent their spring break protesting US-style “education reform” plans based on standardized tests and teacher evaluations.
Paramilitaries and state police are stepping up the harassment of residents resisting the construction of wind farms by foreign companies near Oaxaca’s Pacific coast.
