From El Universal, May 4 via the Chiapas95 archive: A state judge on Wednesday exonerated a Michoacan police officer accused of shooting and killing a striking steel mill worker last month, despite video footage showing the officer firing his rifle… Read moreMexico: officer cleared in deadly labor repression
From the online Radio Sabotaje, late on May 5: Marcos has just arrived in Atenco with 4,000 individuals representing students, workers, farmers, teachers and and community organizations. Mexican mainstream media is reporting agression on the part of the marchers –… Read moreMexico: Zapatistas in Atenco
Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), speaking in Mexico City’s historic Tlatelolco Plaza May 3, stated that the Zapatistas are officially going on “red alert” in response to violence in San Salvador Atenco, a village in the… Read moreUprising in Mexico state; Zapatistas on “red alert” again
The Zapatista “Other Campaign” continues to advance through central Mexico, with recent stops emphasizing peasant ecological struggles. In Campos, Colima state, Delegate Zero (Subcommander Marcos) and other Zapatista leaders met with fishermen at Cuyutlán lagoon, whose livelihood is falling victim… Read moreZapatista tour in Michoacan, Morelos
Some 15,000 people marched along Mexico City’s Reforma avenue on March 16 to protest water privatization plans as the representatives of 140 countries met nearby for the opening of the 4th World Water Forum. “Water isn’t for sale and won’t… Read moreMexico: protests at water forum
The Zapatista “Other Campaign” continues to advance through central Mexico. On March 20 in the Jalisco city of El Salto, Subcommander Marcos convened the first National Worker Encuentro, attended by dissidents from Mexico’s official labor unions and what they called… Read moreZapatista tour advances; Mexican government claims “end” to Chiapas conflict
Tens of thousands of Mexican miners went on strike from March 1 to March 3 at 70 companies in at least eight states–Hidalgo, Coahuila, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Queretaro, Michoacan, Guanajuato and Mexico state–in a wildcat action protesting local conditions and government… Read moreMexico: wildcat rocks mines
Ginger Thompson writes for the New York Times, Feb. 27: MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26 A secret report prepared by a special prosecutor’s office says the Mexican military carried out a “genocide plan” of kidnapping, torturing and killing hundreds of suspected… Read moreMexico: “dirty war” files reveal “genocide plan”
Feb. 16 marked a full decade since the signing of the San Andres Accords, negotiated by rebel Zapatista commanders and Mexican federal legislators in the restive southern state of Chiapas. The Accords called for changes to the Mexican constitution as… Read moreZapatista tour advances 10 years after stalled peace accord
From Mexico’s El Universal, Feb. 16, via the Miami Herald: Fox calls for probe in Lydia Cacho case The governor of Puebla is under fire after he is allegedly heard discussing the jailing of a journalist on a tape released… Read moreFree speech under attack in Mexico
The Zapatista “Other Campaign” is making its way up the Mexican isthmus. Leaving behind the Maya realms of Chiapas and the Yucatan, in recent weeks it has passed through the states of Tabasco, Veracruz and, most recently, Oaxaca. At each… Read moreZapatista “Other Campaign” reaches Oaxaca
Subcomandante Marcos said Jan. 14 that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation will not accept the invitation by Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales to attend his Jan. 22 inauguration. During a meeting with supporters on the Zapatistas' "Other Campaign" in Chetumal,… Read moreZapatista tour reaches Yucatan; supporters harassed
