The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) claimed responsibility for Sept. 10 attacks on Pemex oil pipelines in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz. Authorities say an inscription in red on a section of pipeline read: “They were taken alive, we want… Read moreMexico: guerillas blow up pipelines —again
Some 10,000 members of the Section 22 teachers union and the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) marched in Oaxaca City Sept. 1 to demonstrate their rejection of Mexico’s President Felipe CalderĂłn Hinojosa, the same day he delivered his first… Read moreMexico: more protests in Oaxaca —amid growing violence
On Aug. 30 thousands of workers marched in Mexico City from the Angel of Independence to the central plaza, the Zocalo, to protest what they called the “anti-union and anti-worker” policies of President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, of the center-right National… Read moreMexico City: terror scare as workers march
A Mexican federal judge in Chiapas sentenced 18 Tzotzil Maya men to 26 years in prison Aug. 28 on homicide and weapons charges for having participated in the massacre of 45 unarmed Tzotzils at the hamlet of Acteal on Dec…. Read moreChiapas: 18 sentenced in Acteal massacre
Members of the “Other Campaign” activist network marched in Mexico City Aug. 26 in protest of the recent evictions of campesino communities from the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in the conflicted southern state of Chiapas. (Expreso Chiapas, Aug. 27) On… Read moreChiapas: Montes Azules evictions protested
Juan Carlos “El Konan” GarcĂa Cruz, a member of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) was sentenced to three years in prison by a Mexican federal court in Oaxaca City Aug. 26 on arms possession charges. While several APPO… Read moreOaxaca: APPO activist gets prison term
State police in Guerrero, Mexico, announced they had discovered a cache of 14 firearms with home-made bombs and camo uniforms hidden in a corn warehouse (bodega de maiz) in the community of Chamacua de Michelle, Coyuca de Catalán municipality. Authorities… Read moreAnti-guerilla operations in Guerrero, Oaxaca
In Chicontepec, Veracruz, members of the “Other Campaign in la Huasteca” activist network issued a statement Aug. 31 protesting the “disappearance” of three of the 10 Nahua campesinos detained at a June land occupation and since freed pending charges against… Read moreCampesinos “disappeared” in Veracruz
On Aug. 29, the Tzotzil Maya community of Ejido 28 de Junio in the municipality of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas, was occupied by troops of the Mexican federal army, who arrived in two trucks and four armed personnel carriers. Establishing checkpoints… Read moreMexican army searches for EPR guerillas in Chiapas
From AP, Aug. 28: Mexico has broken its record for the most extraditions to the United States in a year, shipping a man north of the border Tuesday who is wanted in Georgia for drug trafficking. Hilario Larrago, who faces… Read moreMexico breaks extradition record
The self-declared “autonomous municipality” of San Juan Copala and the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) announced they will hold a national meeting of autonomous municipalities, to take place at the indigenous mountain village September 15-16. APPO also said they… Read moreAPPO, Zapatistas hold national meetings on autonomy
The president of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (CIDH), FlorentĂn MelĂ©ndez, interviewed the brothers Flavio and Horacio Sosa Villavicencio, leaders of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO), at the maximum security prison of Altilplano, in the state of Mexico,… Read moreOaxaca: state government reprimanded on human rights
