Mexico

Amid Threats, I Won’t Stop Investigating Missing 43 Students

November 26, 2015 Anabel Hernández, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, State Violence

By Anabel Hernández for The Huffington Post - I'm writing to make public that I received a threat on Nov. 4 in my home in Mexico City that resulted from my work as an investigative reporter. In Mexico, the brutal truth is that journalists get murdered for doing their work. More than 100 journalists have been killed over the last decade and the vast majority of their killers enjoy total impunity. In 2015 alone, at least seven journalists have been killed: Rubén Espinosa, Gerardo Nieto, Armando Saldaña, Abel Manuel Bautista,Filadelfo Sánchez, Juan Mendoza and Moisés Sánchez.

Mothers Of Mexico’s Disappeared Organize

November 19, 2015 Nidia Bautista, www.cipamericas.org Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, State Violence

By Nidia Bautista for Americas Program - Held just four days after the one-year anniversary of the Ayotzinapa disappearances, at least three hundred people attended the International Forum on Disappearances in Mexico in Mexico City from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2015. Social organizations and the Autonomous Metropolitan University Campus Xochimilco brought together families of disappeared persons, human rights activists, government officials, academics, journalists and students for three days of presentations and discussion around the crisis of disappearances in Mexico. Among the participants were dozens of mothers of some of the over 26,000 thousand people who have disappeared since 2006.

Another TransCanada Pipeline To Protest

November 13, 2015 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Mexico, Pipelines

By Steve Horn for Desmog - TransCanada, the owner of the recently-nixed northern leg of the KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline, has won a bid from Mexico's government to build a 155-mile pipeline carrying gas from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United States to Mexico's electricity grid. The company has benefited from Mexico's energy sector privatization promoted by the U.S. State Department, the same agency that denied a permit to the U.S.-Canada border-crossing Keystone XL. TransCanada said in a press release that construction on the $500 million line will begin in 2016 and it will be called the Tuxpan-Tula Pipeline. This is not the first pipeline system TransCanada will oversee in Mexico. The company already owns four other systems, with two operational and two under construction.

Viva La Revolución: Mexico City Cyclists Fight For Right To Ride In Safety

November 11, 2015 Nick Mead, www.theguardian.com Create! Mexico

By Nick Mead for The Guardian - Stand on Mexico City’s grand Paseo de la Reforma boulevard on a Sunday morning and you’ll hear gears whirring, bells ringing and the chatter of voices as 50,000 people cycle, scoot and skate along 35 miles of closed roads. Stop and listen on any other day of the week and all you’ll hear is the roar of 10 lanes of traffic. This sprawling megacity of 21 million is home to 5.5m cars, and that number is growing despite some of the worst traffic jams in the world. Residents spend an average of three hours a day commuting, and car speeds during rush hour have fallen to around 7.5mph (12km/h).

Mexico Supreme Court: Consuming Marijuana A Fundamental Right

November 9, 2015 Dartagnan, www.dailykos.com Resist! Marijuana, Mexico

By Dartagnan for Daily Kos - On November 4th, 2015 the country which has arguably suffered most horrifically from the American policy failure known as the "War on Drugs" took a major step towards legalization of marijuana. The implications of Wednesday's decision by the Mexican Supreme Court will soon be reverberating in Washington and may even impact the 2016 Presidential election. The Mexican Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing marijuana on Wednesday, delivering a pointed challenge to the nation’s strict substance abuse laws and adding its weight to the growing debate in Latin America over the costs and consequences of the war against drugs.

Mexico: Parents On Hunger Strike, Demand Answers

September 28, 2015 Sharmini Peries and Diego Bautista, www.facebook.com Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico, State Violence

By Sharmini Peries and Diego Bautista in The Real News - Welcome to the Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. In protest the parents of the 43 Mexican students who disappeared last year started a 43-hour hunger strike on Wednesday. They are expected to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto just before marking the first year since their children disappeared. The families gathered at Mexico City's cathedral at Zocalo Square and declared the start of their protest at 7:00 PM. Now joining me to discuss these events are two students, Diego Bautista and Ame Vera. They are activists in the student movement in Mexico City with Perspectiva Criticas. Thank you both for joining me today.

Take Action: Ayotzinapa One Year Later

September 22, 2015 SOA Watch, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Ayotzinapa, Galvanize, Mexico, Protest

By SOA Watch - September 26 will mark one year since the enforced disappearances of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. A few weeks ago, we sent an email asking our supporters to join in, create, or send information about actions across the U.S. and Canada to commemorate the first anniversary of the Ayotzinapa state crimes. From New York to L.A., Toronto to Topeka, and other cities in between, the responses have been inspiring and the list of actions next weekend continues to grow! NEW, IMPORTANT EVIDENCE - A long awaited report on the Ayotzinapa disappearances by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI Report) was released on September 6. The experts’ findings are damning, and erase all doubt - the Mexican government has been lying and covering up for the crimes of its security forces for almost a year.

Take Action On Anniversary of Ayotzinapa Disappearances

September 17, 2015 SOA Watch, www.soaw.org Resist! Ayotzinapa, Mexico

By SOA Watch - Take Action on September 26, 2015, the anniversary of last year's horrific state crime perpetrated against the students of the Ayotzinapa teachers' college in Mexico. On September 26 and 27, 2014, Mexican police attacked protesting students from Ayotzinapa in the state of Guerrero. The police killed six people, including three students and three bystanders. They forcibly disappeared 43 Ayotzinapa students, who remain missing. In response to these heinous crimes, a protest movement erupted in Mexico, where hundreds of thousands took to the streets and social media (#YaMeCanse, #FueElEstado) to demand justice for the Ayotzinapa 43 and all those affected by Drug War violence.#Ayotzi43DC

Mexico Lost Its War On Drugs 75 Years Ago

August 29, 2015 Nina Lakhani, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Mexico, Wars and Militarism

By Nina Lakhani in Independent - Mexico’s drug trade is synonymous with violence, corruption and cartel bosses battling for territory. But it could have been so different, it’s claimed in a new book, had the US not issued an ultimatum 75 years ago which ignited the war on drugs – leading to death and destruction on both sides of the border. Documents in the book reveal that Mexico legalised drugs in 1940, after doctors convinced the then president, Lazaro Cardenas, that prohibition was damaging public health. Doctors believed that the best way to tackle drug-related ills was to treat addicts rather than lock-up smugglers and producers. Mexico launched a diplomatic campaign to halt the global trend towards prohibition by addressing the League of Nations about the health benefits of legalisation.

Records Show US Involvement In Mexico Oil, Gas Privatization

August 23, 2015 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Mexico, Oil & Gas

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - New records obtained by DeSmog shed further light on the role the U.S.government has played to help implement the privatization of Mexico's oil and gas industry, opening it up to international firms beyond state-owned companyPEMEX (Petroleos Mexicanos). Obtained from both the City of San Antonio, Texas and University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA), the records center around the U.S.–Mexico Oil and Gas Business Export Conference, held in May in San Antonio and hosted by both the U.S.Department of Trade and Department of Commerce, as well as UTSA. They reveal the U.S. government acting as a mediator between Mexico's government and U.S. oil and gas companies seeking to cash in on a policy made possible by the behind-the-scenes efforts of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's U.S. State Department.

Sowing Seeds Of Autonomy

August 19, 2015 Samantha Demby, www.popularresistance.org Create! Autonomy, Environment, Mexico

By Samantha Demby - On Sunday, July 26, 2015, The Caravan for the “Buen Vivir” of Peoples in Resistance arrived to the community of Paso de la Reina on the southwestern coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. The intense sun had already begun to fade, but the hot air lingered in a thick and gray repose, hopeful for a twilight breeze. Windows wide open, the caravan's mobile laboratory clunked down a rocky road, past lime trees and lush cattle pastures, until reaching a modest, yellow bridge. It was at this site on the dawn of July 11, 2009 that residents of Paso de la Reina prevented the entrance of workers from Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE, Comisión Federal de Electricidad), initiating a years-long encampment in resistance to the damming of the Río Verde.

New Clinton Emails Reveal Revolving Door Corruption

August 14, 2015 Educate! Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Mexico, Oil & Gas, Wars and Militarism

Emails released on July 31 by the U.S. State Department reveal more about the origins of energy reform efforts in Mexico. The State Department released them as part of the once-a-month rolling release schedule for emails generated by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, now a Democratic presidential candidate. Originally stored on a private server, with Clinton and her closest advisors using the server and private accounts, the emails confirm Clinton's State Department helped to break state-owned company Pemex's (Petroleos Mexicanos) oil and gas industry monopoly in Mexico, opening up the country to international oil and gas companies. And two of the Coordinators helping to make it happen, both of whom worked for Clinton, now work in the private sector and stand to gain financially from the energy reforms they helped create.

Women Are At The Forefront Of The Zapatista Revolution

August 1, 2015 Hilary Klein, www.truth-out.org Educate! Mexico, Women, Zapatista

By Hilary Klein in Truth Out - In the 1980s, outsiders dressed as doctors or teachers arrived in Araceli and Maribel's jungle community and began asking the peasants why they were paid such low prices when they sold their coffee or corn. These outsiders talked about the fundamental injustices between rich and poor, and about the mistreatment their indigenous community had endured for more than five hundred years. They said that women had rights too. Villagers like Araceli and Maribel took a risk and joined "the organization." They attended secret meetings at night and recruited their neighbors. Some left home to live in the mountains and become insurgents - joining a scrappy indigenous army that was growing in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Mexico Finds 60 Secret Graves But Not The Missing 43 Students

July 28, 2015 Maria Verza, www.AP.org Educate! Ayotzinapa, Criminal Justice, Massacre, Mexico, Violence

By Maria Verza in Associated Press - The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico's attorney general's office says. None of the remains has been connected to the youths who disappeared after a clash with police in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26, and authorities do not believe any will be. Prosecutors say the students were turned over to a drug gang that killed them and incinerated their bodies in a case that has put attention on the huge number of people who have gone missing in Guerrero and other Mexican states where drug violence is widespread.

Federal Attack On Indigenous Santa María Ostula

July 27, 2015 CNI and EZLN, www.enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Massacre, Mexico, Political Violence, Zapatistas

By CNI and EZLN in Enlace Zapatista - Given the violent events perpetrated against the indigenous community of Santa María Ostula on July 19, 2015, by a large commando made up of members of the Federal Preventative Police, the Secretary of National Defense, and the Secretary of the Navy in which Ostula community police commander Cemeí Verdía Zepeda was detained, in which federal soldiers murdered, WITH A BULLET TO THE FACE, THE 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD EDILBERTO REYES GARCÍA, and in which the following people were injured: the child Yeimi Nataly Pineda Reyes, 6-years-old; Edith Balbino Vera; Delfino Antonio Alejo Ramos, 17-years-old; Horacio Valladares Manuel, 32-years-old; José Nicodemos Macías Zambrano, 21-years-old; and Melesio Cristino Dirzio, 60-years-old... WE DENOUNCE: The criminal behavior of the above listed military and police bodies and their complicity with organized crime, in this case the Knights Templar, enacted in order to escalate the war of conquest that has been waged for years now against the Nahua indigenous community of Santa María Ostula.

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