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Resumen De Noticias Zapatistas – Enero 2014
RESUMEN DE NOTICIAS ZAPATISTAS – ENERO 2014 En Chiapas 1. ¡Los zapatistas celebran 20 años de resistencia!.– El primero de enero de 2014, los zapatistas celebraron el 20 aniversario de su rebelión y resistencia. Recibieron aproximadamente 5000 estudiantes durante las…
Read MoreZapatista News Summary – January 2014
JANUARY 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatistas Celebrate 20 Years of Resistance! – On January 1, 2014, the Zapatistas celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Rebellion and Resistance. They hosted approximately 5,000 students between the 2 Escuelitas, one…
Read MoreMexico’s Armed Self-Defense Forces Surge
MEXICO’S ARMED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES SURGE Questions, contradictory narratives and, above all, calls for calm energize the daily coverage and debate over the armed self-defense phenomenon sweeping parts of Mexico. For their part, corporate media outlets like Televisa play up the…
Read MoreChinese iron trade fuels port clash with Mexican drug cartel
Chinese iron trade fuels port clash with Mexican drug cartel By Dave Graham LAZARO CARDENAS, Mexico Jan 1 (Reuters) – When the leaders of Mexico and China met last summer, there was much talk of the need to deepen trade…
Read MoreMexico: Drug War Meltdown
MEXICO: THE POLITICS OF A STATE MELTDOWN As a massive federal police and military deployment gains momentum in the Mexican state of Michoacan, polemics and debate shroud the first major such operation undertaken by the administration of President Enrique Pena…
Read MoreUnited States is Ready to Help Mexico in Michoacan: John Kerry
US, “Ready” to Offer Help to Mexico in Michoacán: John Kerry ** “Yes, we are concerned,” the Secretary of State ratifies in a meeting with Meade ** The cabinet official referred to the conflict between self-defense groups and drug gangs…
Read MoreU. S. in Michoacán: words of interference
La Jornada Editorial US in Michoacán: words of interference Lea en español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2014/01/16/opinion/002a1edi According to information published yesterday by the Dpa news agency, a high official in the US State Department affirmed that the violence and loss of governability that…
Read MoreZapatista News Summary for November 2013
NOVEMBER 2013 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. EZLN Issues 3 Comunicados – The Zapatistas released 3 comunicados: The Bad and the Not-So-Bad News; Rewind 3; and Spaces Full for the December and January Escuelitas (Little Schools). In the first…
Read MoreHiding Mexico’s Dead: drug war deaths go underreported in the U.S. media
Hiding Mexico’s Dead: drug war deaths go underreported in the US media By: Mary Ann Tenuto Sánchez* It is essential that we understand the United States Drug War policy for exactly what it is: a tool for social control and…
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