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Category: Luis Hernández Navarro


Guerrero and Narco-Politics

[Comment from an administrator of this blog: As you read this article, it would seem appropriate to remember that the U.S. government has urged and participated in Mexico’s so-called “Drug War” and financially supports Mexico’s Narco-State with beaucoup bucks while…

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CNI and EZLN: United against Dispossession

CNI and EZLN: UNITED AGAINST DISPOSSESSION  By: Luis Hernández Navarro Gatherings of popular organizations are celebrated practically every month in the most hidden corners of the country. In them it is sought to confront the dispossession of their lands, territories…

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Luis Hernández Navarro: New rural latifundistas

[To Our Readers: Mexico’s Congress recently passed energy “reforms” into law. They are structural reforms that functionally undo major accomplishments of the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution. Luis Hernández Navarro, editor of La Jornada’s Opinion section, analyzes the effect on rural life.]…

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Guerrero: the siege against the CRAC-PC

GUERRERO: THE SIEGE AGAINST THE CRAC-PC By: Luis Hernández Navarro Relentlessly pursued by the government and internally divided, the community police and the systems of community justice of Guerrero are living through a grave crisis. Arbitrary arrests of its leaders…

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Farewell ceremony of Sub Marcos

THE FAREWELL CEREMONY OF SUB MARCOS By: Luis Hernández Navarro   Nothing is lost. All is transformed. The public reappearance and farewell of Subcomandante Marcos marks the end of an epoch in the Zapatista struggle. For a little more than…

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Zapatista News Summary for April 2014

 APRIL 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatistas Release 2nd Issue of Rebeldía Zapatista – The Zapatistas have released another edition of the Rebeldía Zapatista magazine. The Zapatista bases that participated in the Escuelitas give their impressions of the…

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Venezuela: Cubs of Reaction

Luis Hernández Navarro speaks out on Venezuela Venezuela: cubs of reaction By: Luis Hernández Navarro Lorent Saleh is a 25-year old Venezuelan youth, with flaming language, who studied foreign trade. He is one of the visible heads of the coalition…

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Zapatistas: twenty years after

ZAPATISTAS: TWENTY YEARS AFTER By: Luis Hernández Navarro Winds are blowing today, similar to those that blew 20 years ago in the Mexican elites. At that time Carlos Salinas de Gortari felt invincible, much like Enrique Peña Nieto does today….

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Zapatistas: the Wealth of Dignity

ZAPATISTAS: the wealth of dignity By: Luis Hernández Navarro 
In the community of Emiliano Zapata in the Whirlwind of Our Words Caracol, 30 Zapatista families work collectively. They have in common a coffee plantation, vegetable gardens and about 350 head of cattle….

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Albert Patishtán Denied Freedom

[This Thursday (September 12), a Mexican Court rejected  Alberto Patishtán’s appeal for a recognition of innocence. The article below appeared the next day in the Opinion section of La Jornada.] ALBERTO PATISHTÁN: MESSAGE from the STATE By: Luis Hernández Navarro…

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