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
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”
