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
On June 14, Jose Luis Soberanes Fernandez, president of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), confirmed that soldiers had raped at least two underage girls and possibly two others during an anti-drug operation in Caracuaro, Michoacan, from May 2 to… Read moreMexico: rights commission confirms army abuses
The government of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca apologized for the first time June 15 for a police raid on striking teachers in the central plaza of the state capital one year ago that led to Mexico’s worst political… Read moreOaxaca: government issues apology for repression
In a “mega-march” extending more than 10 kilometers, thousands of teachers from the Section 22 union and their supporters in the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) marched through southern Mexico’s Oaxaca City June 14 to mark the first anniversary… Read moreOaxaca: “mega-march” commemorates start of uprising
From the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), June 13: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting of a Mexican journalist who had received death threats in connection with his investigation of the slaying of a U.S. journalist during violent… Read moreOaxaca: journalist shot while investigating Brad Will case
On June 1 a group of Mexican soldiers opened fire on an extended family riding in a van in Sinaloa de Leyva municipality, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa. According to the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), the soldiers fired… Read moreMexico: six killed at army roadblocks
As of June 6 Mexican authorities had still not arrested four suspects in the May 15 murder of environmental activist Aldo Zamora, despite pressure from Greenpeace Mexico, human rights groups and federal legislators. Four assailants ambushed Zamora and his 16-year-old… Read moreMexico: environmental activist murdered
Erick Sosa Villavicencio, a leader of the protest movement in Oaxaca, was freed at dawn on June 9 from the Federal Center of Social Readaption in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. The brother of Flavio Sosa Villavicencio, director of… Read moreMexico: Oaxaca protest leader Erick Sosa released
The Fray BartolomĂ© de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) in Chiapas reports that it has received a document prepared by the Mexican government for the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (CIDH) concerning the November 13, 2006 slaying of four peasants… Read moreGovernment link to Viejo Velasco massacre; Chiapas violence continues
The government of Mexican President Felipe CalderĂłn has issued a formal request to the US Congress for a huge increase in military aid to combat narco-gangs. The request came in a recent US-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Meeting held in Austin, TX, and… Read moreCalderĂłn seeks “Plan Colombia” for Mexico
