As of Aug. 11, some 13 union leaders from the US and Canada had arrived in Cananea, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, to show support for striking miners there. According to Sergio Tolano Lizarraga, general secretary of Section… Read moreMexico: US union backs mine strike
With 98.83% of the ballot boxes counted, Mexico’s centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the allied Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM) had won all 25 districts in Aug. 5 legislative elections in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Alliance… Read moreMexico: PRI sweeps Oaxaca election
Irene Khan, general secretary of the UK-based human rights organization Amnesty International (AI), is scheduled to visit Mexico July 30-Aug. 5 for what AI calls a “high-level working visit” to address its concerns about human rights violations in Mexico. The… Read moreMexico: human rights groups investigate
In the early morning of July 28 people thought to be members of the rebel Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR) assaulted a site in Chiapa de Corzo, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where a federal prison is being built…. Read moreMexico: guerillas attack Chiapas prison
Eleven adherents of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) arrested in last week’s protests in the southern Mexican city have been ordered imprisoned on charges of arson, theft and property damage. Another 18 were ordered released for lack of… Read moreOaxaca: activists get prison, roadblocks continue
More than a month after his disappearance following a police attack on campesino protesters at Ixhuatlán de Madero, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, Nahua indigenous leader Gabino Flores Cruz has released a video statement saying he has not… Read moreVeracruz: “disappeared” indigenous leader re-appears
Representatives of peasant organizations from across the globe have gathered in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas for the “Encuentro with the Peoples of the World,” hosted by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). Participating groups include Brazil’s Movement of… Read moreChiapas: Zapatista Encuentro meets on contested turf
A group of ex-guerillas from the now-dissolved Clandestine Revolutionary Worker’s Party-Union of the People (PROCUP), re-organized as the above-ground Democratic Popular Left (IDP), led by David Cabañas Barrientos and Italo Ricardo DĂaz, charged in a statement that there are “clear… Read moreMexico: ex-guerillas warn of new “dirty war”
Police fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of protesters from reaching the venue of an international Guelaguetza folk festival in Oaxaca July 16, in the worst outbreak of violence in the conflicted southern Mexican city since November. Protesters hurled rocks… Read morePolice, protesters clash in Oaxaca
Grupo Mexico SAB, the world’s seventh-largest copper producer, said 30% of employees at the San Martin copper and gold mine (Zacatecas state) didn’t report to work July 5 because of a national one-day protest. The strike also halted work at… Read moreMexico: national solidarity strike halts mines
After two decades of silence, architect Rosa MarĂa Alvarado MartĂnez come forward July 9 to say that at least three bodies—likely the remains of student protesters killed by the army at Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968—are buried under a… Read moreMexico: bodies found from Tlatelolco massacre?
Honda, Nissan, Hershey’s, Kellogg, Grupo Modelo and other multinational companies temporarily shut their plants in western Mexico after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline. The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) guerrillas claimed responsibility for the explosions. The government ordered an… Read moreMexico: guerillas bomb pipelines
