For the second time in a week, the streets of the Mexican border city of Reynosa hosted protestors in actions over high food and fuel prices, maquiladora lay-offs and the presence of the army in the city.
Thousands of campesinos from across Mexico blocked central avenues of the capital, while others blocked the Córdova-Las Américas bridge that links the border city of Juárez with El Paso, TX.
Turkey's TRT World runs a report recalling the Chontal Maya blockades of the Pemex oil installations in Mexico's southern state of Tabasco in 1996, to protest the pollution of their lands and waters. This is a struggle that is still being waged today by the Chontal of Tabasco, but back in 1996 the figurehead of the movement was Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO)—now Mexico's left-populist president-elect. The report asks if AMLO as president will remain true to the indigenous struggle that first put him on Mexico's political map. In a segment exploring this question, TRT World speaks with Melissa Ortiz Massó of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and CounterVortex editor Bill Weinberg.
More than 250 farmers with tractors and work trucks blockaded the entrances to Chihuahua state office buildings to protest the high cost of diesel fuel and lack of opportunity in Mexico’s agricultural sector.
The “Juárez Citizens Command” issued a manifesto setting a deadline for authorities to restore order in the violence-plagued border city before it will begin killing a criminal every day.
The largest surge ever in legal and unauthorized Mexican migration to the US began after the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, according to sociologist James W. Russell, who studied migration patterns between 1910 and 2008… Read moreNAFTA boosted Mexican immigration: study
Farmers in Mexico’s Chihuahua state blocked roads and occupied the offices of the Agriculture Secretariat to demand the government reduce the price of diesel fuel.
A man arrested by Mexican federal police in Tijuana says he disposed of 300 bodies for a narco gang by dissolving them in chemicals. Meanwhile, more severed heads were discovered in Guanajuato and Juárez.
Amnesty International is calling for urgent action in the case of Rubén Valencia Núñez, an activist with the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO), who survived an assassination attempt last week.
Tarahumara communities in Chihuahua and the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas are both mobilizing to protect traditional lands from mega-scale tourism development projects.
Mexican officials denied claims in a US Joint Operations Command report that country is in danger of becoming a “failed state”—while Barry McCaffrey, Newt Gingrich and others called for beefing up military aid to fight Mexico’s cartels.
A study by the US Joint Forces Command names Pakistan and Mexico as two states at risk of “rapid and sudden collapse.”
