More than 100,000 people filled the giant Zocalo plaza in downtown Mexico City on July 1 for the third National Democratic Convention (CND) called by former mayor and center-left 2006 presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Current president Felipe Calderon… Read moreMexico: 2006 vote protested again
The Special Investigator (FiscalĂa Especial) for the Acteal massacre in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas has announced the discovery in a cave of two AK-47 rifles which are believed to be those used in the Dec. 22, 1997 slaying of… Read moreChiapas: arms used in Acteal massacre discovered
Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has arrived back in the Chiapas rainforest after concluding his tour of Mexico’s northern states in the second phase of the “Other Campaign.” Arriving first in the Chiapas highland city of… Read moreZapatistas back in conflicted Chiapas
President Felipe Calderon has initiated a sweeping purge of Mexico’s federal police forces, replacing nearly 284 senior and middle-level commanders. The move was announced June 25 by Public Security Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna. “We are conscious that Mexicans demand honest,… Read moreMexico purges federal police
Mexico took the first steps June 21 toward extraditing former Quintana Roo governor Mario Villanueva Madrid to the US, where he is wanted in New York City on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering. President Felipe CalderĂłn has… Read moreMexico moves to extradite former governor
Two were killed and four injured in an ambush at San Miguel Aloapam in the Ixtlán de Juárez district of southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state, according to the municipal president Alejandro Cruz Pablo. State authorities said five men had been arrested… Read moreTwo dead in Oaxaca land conflict
A petition from O’odham Voice Against the Wall, posted to journalist Brenda Norrell’s Censored, blog, June 15: We Demand the Return of Human Remains Unearthed During a Recent Desecration of a Sacred Burial Ground On May 17th and May 21st… Read moreTohono O’odham: border wall disturbs ancestral graves
The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has condemned the incommunicado detention and apparent “disappearance” in Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state of Raymundo Rivera Bravo, 55, and Edmundo Reyes Amaya, 50, two militants of the Popular Democratic Revolutionary Party (PDPR). According to… Read moreOaxaca: PDPR militants “disappeared”
Leaders of the Section 50 health workers union in Mexico’s conflicted and impoverished southern state of Chiapas issued an urgent call to state and federal authorities to establish dialogue with the Zapatista Nation Liberation Army’s regional authorities at the highland… Read moreChiapas: whooping cough epidemic?
Veracruz state police detained 47 members of local campesino group “Los Dorados de Villa” at the community of Ixhuatlán de Madero, in the mountainous Huasteca region. The campesinos, adherents of the Zapatista “Other Campaign,” had been peacefully occupying a 513-hectare… Read moreVeracruz: police raid peasant land occupation
Resuming his national tour of Mexico, Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista rebels met June 14 with residents of Loma de Santa MarĂa barrio in Morelia, Michoacán, who oppose a so-called “mega-tunnel” state authorities plan to build through their neighborhood. After… Read moreMichoacán: Subcommander Marcos meets “mega-tunnel” opponents
Federal judicial authorities in Mexico have granted an injuction to a group of Zoque indigenous campesinos in the Chimalapas region straddling the border of Chiapas and Oaxaca states, halting construction of a road through their territory. The petitioners, from the… Read morePeasant ecologists halt highway construction on Chiapas-Oaxaca border
