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Wikileaks: Temer was a U.S. Embassy informant in 2006
This morning, Saturday, May 14, 2016, La Jornada in Mexico published the Wikileaks news about Brazil’s new interim president, Michel Temer, having given information about the political situation in Brazil to the U.S. Embassy in 2006. La Jornada interprets this…
Read MoreChild victims of the war in Chiapas
A PUBLIC APOLOGY WITHOUT THE AGGRESSOR PRESENT; THEY ACCUSE THE ARMED FORCED OF BEING A POWER SUPERIOR TO THE CIVILIAN By: Angeles Mariscal Ever since military personnel arrived in Chiapas in 1994 to carry out actions against the Zapatista National…
Read MoreAccuse Tila mayor of reactivating paramilitaries
THEY ACCUSE THE MAYOR OF TILA OF REACTIVATING THE PAZ Y JUSTICIA PARAMILITARY GROUP From the Correspondents Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas Tila ejido owners, adherents of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle accused municipal president Edgar Leopoldo Gómez Gutiérrez of reactivating…
Read MoreConfrontation in Chiapas leaves one dead
AUTHORITIES and TEACHERS ACCUSE EACH OTHER of PROVOKING TEACHER’S DEATH By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas One teacher dead, six detained and five injured (three of them police) is the result of a confrontation that occurred…
Read MoreEjido Morelia: the Army’s impunity
By: Miguel Angel de los Santos* In January 1994 an internal armed conflict began in Chiapas, when the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) declared war against the Mexican National Army and took various municipal capitals. Armed…
Read MoreMexico protects those without papers in word only
“Operations in secret places become human witch hunts” You can give the government a 10 on its political message, but in fighting crime it doesn’t even attain zero, because it has not even made the attempt, the Jesuit explains. He…
Read MoreVictims of Acteal Massacre seek justice
“THE WEAR AND TEAR HAS BEEN STRONG THROUGHOUT THESE 6, 512 DAYS,” Chiapas, Mexico, October 20, 2015 “They gave us a blow, but now we are here to seek justice,” Juan Vázquez Luna, a member of Civil Society Las Abejas…
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