The National Front of Struggle for Socialism (FNLS) in the western Mexican state of Michoacán issued a statement demanding the “presentation with life” of Francisco Paredes Ruiz, a comunero (communal farmer) from ZirahuĂ©n and former member of the Armed Revolutionary… Read moreCampesino militant “disappeared” in Michoacán
Mexican officials say the US has committed to giving their administration $1 billion over the next two years to fight drug trafficking. Carlos Rico, Mexico’s undersecretary for North American affairs, said the “Joint Strategy to Combat Organized Crime”—which would have… Read moreWhite House prepares “Plan Mexico” drug war package
Four clandestine armed groups in Mexico issued a communique Sept. 27 calling for a “common front” to “recuperate the fatherland,” which they say has been hijacked by a “rightist usurping minority.” The statement also called for the reappearance alive of… Read moreMexico: guerillas call for “common front”
A Mexican federal court in Oaxaca has ordered President Felipe CalderĂłn Hinojosa, Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA), the Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR) and other government entities to present alive Edmundo Reyes Amaya, one of… Read moreMexican court orders release of Oaxaca “disappeared”
State authorities in Chiapas have requested that federal army troops be deployed to assure security in the upcoming elections in the conflicted southern Mexican state. Elections are to be held in two weeks for local authorities in 118 municipalities and… Read moreChiapas requests army presence for elections; EZLN suspend national tour
On Sept. 21 the Mexican government’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) urged President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa to start “the gradual withdrawal” of the military from a high-profile anti-crime campaign he launched at the beginning of the year. The CNDH based… Read moreMexico: report army drug war abuses
Employment and wages declined in Mexican maquiladoras (tax-exempt assembly plants producing for export) during the 2000-2006 administration of former president Vicente Fox Quesada, according to a report by Huberto Juarez Nunez, an economics analyst at the Distinguished Autonomous University of… Read moreMexico: maquilas declined under Fox
After 16 months in hiding, three leaders of the People’s Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT), Martha PĂ©rez Pineda, David Pájaro Huertas and Ulises del Valle RamĂrez, returned to the central Mexican village of San Salvador Atenco to lead… Read moreMexico: Atenco leaders come in from clandestinity
On Sept. 13 Mexican federal district judge Livia Lizbeth Larumbe Radilla, based in Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero, ordered the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) to suspend further construction of La Parota hydroelectric dam across the Papagayo River. The… Read moreMexico: judge suspends La Parota dam
Zapatista and anti-Zapatista Chol Maya peasants clashed with machetes Sept. 12 at the Cascadas de Agua Azul eco-tourist zone, in Tumbalá municipality of southern Mexico’s conflicted Chiapas state. One anti-Zapatista was wounded and three Zapatistas captured by their adversaries before… Read moreChiapas: Zapatistas clash with opponents
Mexico’s Special Investigative Sup-Prosecutor for Organized Delinquency (SIEDO) says it is probing plans by the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) to kidnap high federal government officials and bomb foreign embassies. The plans were supposedly revealed by Hermenegildo Torres Cruz, a member… Read moreMexico: guerillas pledge continued resistance
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions announced in Geneva that it will review the arrests of followers of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) in Mexico. On the eve of leaving for the Working Group’s session in Geneva,… Read moreUN to probe Oaxaca arrests
