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WNU #964: Mexican Activists Charged in Reporter's Death The activists' arrests came as the Mexican government was cracking down on a teachers' strike in neighboring Morelos similar to the strike that set off the Oaxaca uprising two years before....
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 9:41pm PDT
Teaching Rebellion Tour at UC Davis: Stories from Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca Don't miss the Teaching Rebellion Tour at UC Davis on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m. at 2016 Haring Hall....
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 11:55am PDT
Ignoring Evidence, Mexican Authorities Charge Activists with 2006 Murder of Independent Journalist Brad Will Monday, October 20, 2008 :Mexican authorities have arrested two activists in the murder of the independent journalist Brad Will. Speculation has long centered around police officers and pro-government militants in Will's death. Some were initially arrested in the months after the shooting, but ultimately released. But today the government is accusing two members of the popular movement APPO, the group opposed to state governor Ulises Ruiz. Will's family has criticized the charges, calling the...
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 7:52am PDT
CISPES International Observers/Solidarity Delegation Recent polls in El Salvador show that the leftist FMLN party is 15% ahead over the right-wing presidential candidate from the ruling party. This only confirms what Salvadorans in the social movement, members of the FMLN, and the general public have been saying all along: El Salvador is the next in line to join the Latin American shift to the left!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 11:46pm PDT
Alleged Zetas and Municipal Police from Puebla Kidnap 32 Undocumented Migrants Friday, October 17, 2008 Some 32 undocumented Central Americans had been kidnapped and tortured since last Thursday by at least twelve men who were identified as members of the Los Zetas* group and received support from municipal police with the goal of extorting money from their family members who reside in the United States. They demanded USD$3,500 ransom for each one....
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 8:03am PDT
Plan Mexico: Calderón’s Endless War Friday, October 17, 2008 Military convoys patrol the streets. Soldiers kick down doors to carry out warrantless house searches, terrorizing families in the name of "security." At military checkpoints, nervous, trigger-happy soldiers massacre families. Soldiers rape young girls with impunity. US-based private contractors teach police sadistic variations on waterboarding....
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 8:03am PDT
Five arrested in Oaxaca, at least one for Brad Will's murder Thursday afternoon at least five participants in the social movement here in Oaxaca were arrested. At least one (Juan) was arrested for the murder of Brad Will (a crime clearly committed by government-sponsored paramilitaries)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 10:13pm PDT
WNU #963: Teacher Struggles in Puerto Rico, Mexico Several large operations by federal and local Mexican police from Oct. 7 to Oct. 9 broke up protests by striking teachers and their supporters in Morelos state, south of Mexico City, leaving dozens of people detained or injured. Morelos teachers have been on strike since Aug. 13....
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 2:22pm PDT
Peruvian soldiers die in ambush Tuesday, October 14, 2008 : The military in Peru blame the Shining Path guerrilla group for an ambush in which two soldiers were killed and five injured....
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 7:46am PDT
On the Trail of the Disappeared Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 : Two years after she left El Progreso, a small community in Yoro, Honduras, the remains of Martha Lidia Ziga were found in the Arizona desert. During that time her family lived in uncertainty. They hadnt heard anything from her since she left for the north....
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 7:42am PDT
Unanswered Phone Calls in Venezuela: Human Rights Watch Exposes Hugo Chavez Yet Again. Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently published a 230 page report on Venezuela entitled "“A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela,”
In a press release about the report, HRW's Americas director, Jose Miguel Vivanco stated that "rather than advancing rights protections" the Chavez government has "moved in the opposite direction, sacrificing basic guarantees in pursuit of its own political agenda. "...
Posted: Sun, Oct 12, 2008 12:04am PDT
Scandal-hit Peru cabinet resigns Saturday, October 11, 2008 : President accepts mass resignation in effort to tackle corruption allegations....
Posted: Sat, Oct 11, 2008 8:22am PDT
10/13- Labor Leaders Tour Visit EB-Encuentro con Lideres Sindicales-Colombia- Nicaragua Two trade unionists from Columbia and Nicaragua will be visiting Oakland this coming Monday October 13 in a meeting hosted by the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee....
Posted: Sat, Oct 11, 2008 7:58am PDT
Unanswered Phone Calls in Venezuela: Human Rights Watch Exposes Hugo Chavez Yet Again Friday, October 10, 2008 Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently published a 230 page report on Venezuela entitled "“A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela,”...
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 7:45am PDT
Message of President Evo Morales Friday, October 10, 2008 Sisters and brothers, on behalf of the Bolivian people, I greet the social movements of this continent present in this Act of Continental Solidarity with Bolivia....
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 7:36am PDT
CISPES Report by Delegation to El Salvador A recently returned delegation to El Salvador has published a report on human rights abuses, the potential for fraud and intervention in the 2009 Salvadoran elections, and the role that the US government has played in the cited injustices. The delegation was organized by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) and was made up of 17 US citizens and residents. The introduction to the report explains its intended purpose of “offer[ing] elected officials, the media, ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 3:38pm PDT
McCain Funded Righwing Contra Death Squads From a Tuesday, October 7, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2008 7:14am PDT
Drug-Related Violence Rages in Tijuana, Mexico Monday, October 6, 2008 : Mexico's bloody drug war is raging just across the border from San Diego. Tijuana is suffering one of the worst waves of violence in decades. So far this year, more than 400 people have been killed, and Tijuana's mayor has called on Mexico's government for help....
Posted: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 7:28am PDT
Mexico protesters clash with police Friday, October 3, 2008 : At least 18 people hurt during demonstration calling for inquiry into 1968 massacre....
Posted: Fri, Oct 3, 2008 8:17am PDT
Mayhem In Mexico: Official Struggle To Curb Violence Thursday, October 2, 2008 : Violence in Mexico is on the rise, as the battle with Mexico's drug war continues. President Felipe Calderon is using the army and federal police to fight narcotics traffickers, but more and more, innocent bystanders seem to be caught up in the conflict. Malcolm Beith, the Mexico section editor of The News, an English language newspaper in Mexico, discusses the dire situation just across the U.S....
Posted: Fri, Oct 3, 2008 8:16am PDT
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