From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 17, via Chiapas95: Labor turmoil following disaster draws in USW Accused by government of $55 million theft, leader of Mexican mine union flees to Canada with help of Pittsburgh-based labor giant The horrific Pasta de… Read moreUnited Steelworkers embroiled in Mexican labor showdown
Masked gunmen burst into a nightclub in the west-central Mexican state of Michoacan late on the night of Sept. 4 and flung five human heads onto the dance floor. The “Light and Shadow” club in the city of Uruapan was… Read moreMexico: hideous escalation of narco violence
A unanimous decision of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal rejected allegations of systematic fraud and awarded Felipe Calderon the presidency Sept. 5, after two months of uncertainty. But his ability to rule effectively remains in doubt as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador… Read moreMexico: Electoral Tribunal rules for Calderon; Lopez Obrador pledges parallel government
From the Chiapas daily Estesur, Sept. 3 (our translation): PRIista marches against “electoral fraud” Tuxtla Gutierrez – 13 days after the state elections, the candidate of the Alliance for Chiapas, the PRIista Jose Antonio Aguilar Bodegas, led a march and… Read moreChiapas: electoral crisis heats up
On Aug. 31 about a dozen armed and masked people blocked the highway from Oaxaca city to Guelatao in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca and passed out two communiques which according to the Mexican daily La Jornada were from… Read moreOaxaca: guerillas stage armed action
From AP, Aug. 22: Close election in Chiapas spurs another protest TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, MEXICO – The dispute over Mexico’s presidential vote took a new twist Monday as a gubernatorial candidate backed by the ruling party vowed to protest a state… Read moreMexico’s electoral crisis: Chiapas next?
Former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994), top officials in the government of current Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada and a leader of Fox’s center-right National Action Party (PAN) were involved in a conspiracy in 2004 to remove Andres… Read moreMexico: pre-election plot confirmed?
Some 60 masked and mostly armed men, including “porros” (provocaterus) and municipal police, took over the local office of the Oaxaca daily newspaper Noticias in the town of Santa Cruz Amilpas Aug. 20. The municipal government is in the hands… Read moreOaxaca: general strike, paramilitary backlash
Another escalation is reported in the struggle of Maya campesinos in Yucatan state to hold their communial (ejidal) lands that the government seeks to expropriate for a new airport, part of the “Metropolisur” regional development plan. An Aug. 18 communique… Read moreMexico: repression in Yucatan
Ricardo Lopez Espinosa, a community leader in the conflicted central Mexican village of San Salvador Atenco and a member of the local People’s Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) was freed from jail in Molino de Flores Aug. 17… Read moreMexico: repression in Atenco, Puebla, Queretaro
From EFE, Aug. 14 via Chiapas95 (our translation): MEXICO — Mexico’s Federal Preventative Police (PFP) today used blows and tear gas to break up a group of legislators who support leftist candidate Manuel Lopez Obrador at one of the gates… Read moreMexico: police attack PRD legislators
Unrepentant about the wall his own country is building on the West Bank, Uza Dayan wisely warns the US against emulating Israeli strategies in Occupied Aztlan. From Newsday, Aug. 16: JERUSALEM — Six years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak… Read moreEx-Israeli security chief on US-Mexico border wall: “Don’t build it!”
