Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the left-populist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) raised the stakes in Mexico’s electoral standoff July 26 by declaring himself “the president of Mexico.” Cesar Nava, a spokesman for candidate Felipe Calderón of the ruling National Action… Read moreMexico awaits ruling on vote; dissidents threatened
From Mexico’s La Jornada, July 24, via Chiapas95, our translation: The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the narco-traffic in Chiapas “are factors that affect the national security,” says an internal document of Superior Center of Naval Studies (CESNAV) of… Read moreMexico: Naval intelligence calls EZLN “national security threat”
From La Jornada, July 15, translation via Chiapas95: In a large and violent operation – according to witnesses – the police of Yucatan arrested last Thursday in the community of Caucel more than 40 Maya ejidatarios [communal farmers], who were protesting… Read moreYucatan: police attack peasant protesters
Marking their completion of 10 ten years in prison, the two accused Zapatista collaborators being held at the state prison in Tacotalpa, Tabasco, began an indefinite hunger strike July 10 to demand their liberation. The prisoners, Angel Concepcion Perez Vazquez… Read moreZapatista political prisoners launch hunger strike
From the New York Times, links and annotation added: MEXICO CITY, July 6 — Felipe Calderón, a conservative former energy minister, won a narrow victory in the race for president today after election officials finished their official tally, but his… Read moreMexico: Calderón declared victor; López Obrador pledges challenge
From the Mexican news agency APRO, June 27, via Chiapas95 (our translation): Toluca- The first penal judge based in Tenang del Valle formally brought charges against 13 of the 21 police detained by the Mexican [state] prosecutor in the Atenco… Read moreMexico: more police arrested in Atenco case; protests continue
This Reuters story that ran in the Washington Post June 19 (online at Chiapas95) is typical of the hegemonic mainstream media line (north of the border, at least) that the Zapatistas have shot their wad and are forgotten. (Amazing that… Read moreReuters: Zapatista demands “forgotten”?
In a pre-dawn raid yesterday, Oaxaca state police with helicopters, tear gas and firearms evicted several thousand striking school teachers from the plantón, or ongoing protest encampment, they had been maintaining for two weeks in Oaxaca City’s central plaza. Witnesses… Read moreOaxaca: police attack striking teachers
The Indigenous Rights Center (CEDIAC) in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, is demanding an investigation into the assassination of Tzeltal Maya campesino Sebastian Cruz Lopez, accused by state police of belonging to a gang which held up cars on… Read morePolitical violence in Chiapas, risk of famine seen
80,000 striking teachers marched in Oaxaca City June 2 to press their demands for better wages and a reorganization of the state’s education system, marking the largest mass mobilization in the city’s history. In addition to a large state police… Read moreTeachers’ strike, political violence in Oaxaca
It was heartening to see a picture of Subcommander Marcos in the New York Times May 10, even if it was on page 12. The masked Zapatista leader sat down in a Televisa studio for a nationally-broadcast interview May 9,… Read moreMarcos does Televisa, DF cops gird for repression
The conservative Baptist Press News (May 5) chalks this up (pretty damn blatantly) as a victory for a gringo pressure campaign. That spin will not serve Fox well, as a sudden upsurge of peasant and labor unrest is sending Mexico… Read moreMexico: Fox caves in on decrim law
