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Mexico: Brutal Repression Of Teachers Movement Kills Six

June 21, 2016 Jorge Martín, www.marxist.com , , , , ,
By Jorge Martín for In Defense of Marxism - This is the latest instance of brutal repression by the Mexican government of Peña Nieto against the months long movement of teachers against an education counter reform. On Friday, June 17, thousands of police officers formed a human wall which prevented a teachers’ demonstration from reaching the centre of Mexico City, where their camp had already been brutally evicted days earlier. Thousands of teachers have been sacked from their jobs for refusing the pass tests which are part of the education “reform”, hundreds have been arrested including many of the leaders of the democratic teachers’ union, CNTE.

Major State Repression In Oaxaca: Several Killed, Dozens Wounded And Detained

June 20, 2016 Scott Campbell, www.itsgoingdown.org , , , ,
By Scott Campbell for It's Going Down - The looming federal police attack on the people and striking teachers of Oaxaca, Mexico has begun. There are reports of between six and eight demonstrators killed Sunday morning at the teachers-peoples highway blockade in Nochixtlán, northwest of the city of Oaxaca. The eight dead that the movement is confirming are Oscar Aguilar Ramírez, 25, Andrés Sanabria García, 23, Anselmo Cruz Aquino, 33, Yalit Jiménez Santiago, 28, Oscar Nicolás Santiago, Omar González Santiago, 22, Antonio Perez García, and Jesús Cadena Sánchez, 19.

TransCanada Wins Bid For Underwater Gas Pipeline Across Gulf Of Mexico

June 17, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com , , ,
By Steve Horn for Desmog - TransCanada, owner of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline currently being contested in federal court and in front of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) legal panel, has won a $2.1 billion joint venture bid with Sempra Energy for a pipeline to shuttle gas obtained from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in Texas' Eagle Ford Shale basin across the Gulf of Mexico and into Mexico. The 500-mile long Sur de Texas-Tuxpan pipeline, as reported on previously by DeSmog, is part of an extensive pipeline empire TransCanada is building from the U.S. to Mexico.

After Police Attack, Barricades Reappear In Oaxaca

June 13, 2016 Scott Campbell, www.elenemigocomun.net , , ,
By Scott Campbell for El Enemigo Común - Teachers in Mexico have been on strike since May 15, demanding, among other things, an end to the neoliberal educational reforms being pushed forward by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. For a roundup of events during the first 15 days of the strike, see the most recent Insumisión column. While things have been tense in Oaxaca, with Governor Gabino Cué announcing that he had hundreds of police ready to remove any teachers encampment or blockade, there have been no big confrontations until tonight.

Mexican Government Fires A Staggering 3000 Striking Teachers

May 25, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Mexico's secretary of education said Thursday that more than three thousand teachers from the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacan would be fired for missing three consecutive days of work without justification, despite the fact the teachers have missed work as a result of being on strike over a series of reforms forced upon them by the federal government. A spokesperson from the National Coordinator of Education Workers, a leftist breakaway from the national teachers' union, said they would keep their strike going despite the threat of dismissal.

#VivasNosQueremos March Against Gender Violence & Femicides

April 25, 2016 Erin Gallagher, www.revolution-news.com , ,
By Erin Gallagher for Revolution News - Tens of thousands mobilized in Mexico for the #VivasNosQueremos #24A march against gender violence and femicides. People marched in over 40 cities in 27 states of the country to demand an end to gender violence. Leading up to today’s planned march, hashtag #MiPrimerAcoso (the first time I was harassed) was tweeted by thousands of Mexicans telling personal stories about attacks of all kinds against women from street harassment to rapes.

Gustavo Castro Leaves Honduras, Returns To Mexico

April 2, 2016 Staff, www.otherworldsarepossible.org , , ,
By Staff of Other Worlds - After being prevented from leaving Honduras for 24 days, the coordinator of Otros Mundos A.C./Friends of the Earth Mexico was notified that the ‘migratory alert’ impeding his travel has been lifted. Today, Thursday March 31, 2016, the First Courthouse of Letters of Intibucá, Honduras, acting on instructions from the judge Victorina Flores Orellana, decided to lift the measure prohibiting Gustavo Castro Soto from leaving the country, which has been in place since March 7.

Farmworkers In Mexico, Facing Human Rights Abuses

March 18, 2016 Griselda San Martin, www.transbordermedia.com , , ,
By Griselda San Martin for Transborder Media - Cecilia Sanchez, 25, has two children and is pregnant with her third. When asked how far along she is, she simply tilts her head and shrugs. She doesn’t know because she hasn’t been able to see a doctor yet. She lacks the money for the bus to get to the clinic. Sanchez’s husband works as a farmworker each day, sometimes spending more than 12 hours in the field. This month he is picking strawberries. He earns 700 pesos – about $35 – each week.

The Mexicanization Of The United States

March 15, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com , , ,
By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - The neoliberal ideology that is the engine of corporate capitalism spews its poison around the globe. Constitutions are rewritten by judicial fiat in a mockery of democracy. Laws and regulations that impede corporate exploitation are abolished. Corporations orchestrate legally sanctioned tax boycotts. Free-trade deals destroy small farmers and businesses along with labor unions and government agencies designed to protect the public from contaminated air, water and food and from usurious creditors and lenders.

Subcomandante Marcos Replies To Mexican Court

March 1, 2016 EZLN, www.roarmag.org , ,
By EZLN for ROAR Magazine - The whole time the only terrorists have been those who for more than 80 years have so badly governed this country. You are simply the sink where the genocidaires go to wash their hands and together you have converted the judicial system into a poorly built and clogged latrine, the national flag in a reusable roll of toilet paper, and the national shield into a logo made of undigested fast food. Everything else is pure theater in order to simulate justice where there is only impunity and shamelessness, feigning “institutional government” where there is nothing more than dispossession and repression.

Ending Impunity With Truth: Oaxaca Uncovers Massive State Abuse

March 1, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Under the banner of “Now we know!” the Truth Commission report seeks to uncover “historic truth” and calls for an end to impunity in Oaxaca. The Mexican state committed “massive and systematic” human rights abuses in the southwestern state of Oaxaca in 2006 and 2007, including extrajudicial killings and possible crimes against humanity, according to the final report of the Oaxaca Truth Commission released on Monday.

Upheaval In The Factories Of Juarez

January 29, 2016 Alana Semuels, www.theatlantic.com , , , ,
By Alana Semuels for The Atlantic - CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Women and men, more than 70 of them, were fired on December 9th from the factory on the Mexican side of the Mexico-Texas border where they made printers for the American company Lexmark. They say they were terminated because they were trying to form an independent union. The company says they were fired because they caused a “workplace disruption.” Now, the workers protest by occupying a makeshift shack outside the factory, still advocating for a raise and for a union, even though they no longer have jobs.

Mexico Violence Never Ends, 5 More Disappeared By Police

January 17, 2016 Staff, http://www.telesurtv.net/ ,
By Staff for Telesur. Four police officers were detained in Mexico’s violence-ridden state of Veracruz Thursday for suspected involvement in the forced disappearance of five youth. A father and relative of one of the five said “Imagine the hell” when you find out your loved ones have been disappeared by the authorities. “Imagine, it's hell here … something similar happened to me seven years ago when they took my father, they asked for ransom, which I paid, and today I still don’t know where he is,” Bernardo Benitez told Aristegui Noticias. “Why do they do it? I don't understand. In the case of my son and nephew, I am sure that more than four police took part in the enforced disappearance, but the authorities will ignore all the rest who are involved.”

Celebrating 22 Years Of Zapatismo

January 6, 2016 Hilary Klein, www.telesurtv.net ,
By Hilary Klein for Tele Sur - The anniversary of the EZLN’s uprising is a chance to reflect on the Zapatista movement’s achievements and lessons that are still relevant today. Jan. 1 marks the 22nd anniversary of the Zapatista uprising and more than 30 years since the formation of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN). On January 1, 1994, the EZLN captured the world’s imagination when it rose up to demand justice and democracy for the indigenous peasants of southern Mexico.

A New Year’s Message From The Zapatistas: “We Chose Life”

January 6, 2016 Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés and Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano, www.enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx ,
By EZLN for Enlaze Zapatista - Good evening, good day compañeras and compañeros, today we are here to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion. For more than 500 years we have endured the war that the powerful from different nations, languages, colors, and beliefs have made against us in order to annihilate us. They wanted to kill us, be it through killing our bodies or killing our ideas. But we resist. As original peoples, as guardians of Mother Earth, we resist.
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