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), Florentín Meléndez, 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
Mexican federal agents and Chiapas state police evicted several families Aug. 19 from the predios (collective farms) of Nuevo Salvador Allende and El Buen Samaritano, in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve. Six family heads were detained, accused of environmental crimes… Read moreChiapas: more evictions from Montes Azules
Starting Aug. 20, Presidents George W. Bush and Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met in Montebello, Canada, to discuss North American integration. The purpose was to advance the little-known second phase of the North American Free Trade… Read moreEnergy, security top secretive NAFTA talks
Mineworker Reynaldo Hernandez Gonzalez was killed and several workers were injured on Aug. 13 in a violent confrontation between rival groups of miners at Grupo Mexico’s La Caridad mine in Nacozari, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. There were… Read moreMexico: one killed in mining clash
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
