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- Thursday, Dec 02, 2010
ZNet Article A newcomer arriving into California’s San Joaquin Valley – the most lucrative and industrialized agricultural region in the United States – might think that the entire place is burning. -
- Friday, Oct 30, 2009
ZNet Article Gloria Arenas AgÃÂs was released from prison around 7:30PM on October 28, ten years after Mexican federal agents abducted, tortured, and then - after several days of being held incommunicado - arrested her and her husband Jacobo Silva Nogales on... -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article An interview with Comandante Ramiro, ERPI guerrilla -
- Monday, Jun 15, 2009
ZNet Article Before dawn on Friday, June 5, an estimated 650 Peruvian National Police and Special Forces officers attacked several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous people at their roadside blockade on the Fernando Belaunde Terry highway. -
- Monday, Jun 01, 2009
ZMag Article Review of a book by John Gibler on resistance to a neoliberal Mexico -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
ZMag Article The corporate-state seige of Lomas del Poleo -
- Sunday, Jan 25, 2009
ZNet Article Interview about new book titled "Mexico Unconquered." -
- Friday, Jan 09, 2009
ZNet Article San José del Pacifico, Mexico-Marcella "Sali" Grace Eiler, a young woman with several years of forest defense, train hopping, banjo playing, and dumpster diving already under her belt, stepped into La Taberna de los Duendes (The Gnome's Tavern) a... -
- Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009
Book Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the epic powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the underdogs and rebels who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. -
- Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008
ZNet Article On October 27, 2006, Brad Will stood on Juarez Avenue in the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was filming a violent clash between armed, civilian-clad municipal police and officials and members of the Oaxaca Peoples’ Popu... -
- Friday, Jun 06, 2008
ZNet Article This past Wednesday, June 4, a military convoy of about 200 Mexican soldiers and federal and municipal police attempted to enter Zapatista villages under the pretext of searching for marijuana plants; something patently absurd in communities that ... -
- Sunday, Feb 03, 2008
ZNet Article Around 3 p.m. on Jan. 2, nine shots were fired into the air. The perpetrators withdrew, leaving behind a button-down shirt with the cuffs tied to two lone trees in the cornfield. Machetes had hacked the shirt and cut a thick cross into one of the ... -
- Saturday, May 05, 2007
ZNet Article In Oaxaca, Women Rise -
- Sunday, Oct 15, 2006
ZNet Article In the past week, gunmen have killed one and wounded four protesters from the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). The recent killings heightened tensions as the conflict again enters into a critical moment with the Minister of the Int... -
- Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006
ZNet Article OAXACA CITY - Every night streets here become battlefields in waiting. But behind the commandeered city buses, burned trucks, and coils of barbed wire, a group of atypical urban rebels stands guard.
Watching over a barricade where a small altar t... -
- Friday, Sep 01, 2006
ZMag Article O
btilia Eugenio Manuel, a 30-year-old Me’phaa
indigenous woman, stands in the hollowed concrete frame of a two-room
schoolhouse, its walls peppered with bullet holes. She holds a microphone
... -
- Wednesday, Aug 16, 2006
ZNet Article Throughout the past week gunmen of have opened fire on members of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO for its initials in Spanish) killing four and wounding at least 10.
Organizations and citizens across Oaxaca formed the APPO shortly ... -
- Monday, Aug 07, 2006
ZNet Article Mexico City is in the grip of a designer uprising, a massive civil disobedience campaign organized by a national political party—the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD—and involving thousands of grassroots citizens. The mov... -
- Friday, Aug 04, 2006
ZNet Article On Tuesday, August 1, about 3,000 women marched through downtown Oaxaca City banging metal pots and pans in an oddly melodious cacophony that served as the background for their chants demanding the ousting of governor Ulises Ruiz. They stopped by ... -
- Tuesday, Jul 11, 2006
ZNet Article For five days following the July 2 presidential elections, Mexico was in the grip of anticipation as the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) labored to tally—or rig—the votes.
On Thursday, July 6, the anticipation passed into a spli... -
- Saturday, Jun 24, 2006
ZNet Article I.
When the Zapatistas launched the Other Campaign in San Cristobal de Las Casas on January 1, 2006—exactly twelve years after they took that city by force—they made clear that the stakes would be high.
“We are putting e... -
- Saturday, May 06, 2006
ZNet Article [Please see below for photos]
San Salvador Atenco, Mexico—At 7 AM this past Wednesday, May 3rd, state police blocked 60 flower vendors from setting up their stands at the Texcoco local market in the State of Mexico, about 20 miles east of... -
- Saturday, Apr 29, 2006
ZNet Article No Choice for Migrants -
- Wednesday, Apr 05, 2006
ZNet Article In Mexican water politics, poverty is good business. Eleven million people here live without access to potable water and another 25 million live in villages and cities with taps that run as little as a few hours a week. Most of those who do have i... -
- Monday, Mar 20, 2006
ZNet Article Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the most famous intellectuals in Latin America. His name ranks with those of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende, and Miguel Angel Asturias as one of the top writers of the legendary Latin America... -
- Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006
ZNet Article On February 14, the day sub-comandante Marcos arrived in the city of Puebla as part of his six-month journey across the country to listen to the voices of the underdogs of the Mexican left, the national newspaper La Jornada carried on its front pa... -
- Tuesday, Feb 28, 2006
ZNet Article Walking across the central plaza in Oaxaca City time slows down. Stepping into the expanse of cobblestone walkways that weave through trees and flower beds, surrounded by old colonial government buildings and sidewalk cafes, one feels one's hurry ... -
- Monday, Feb 13, 2006
ZNet Article The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas†(January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a... ZNet Article The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas†(January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a... -
- Sunday, Feb 05, 2006
ZNet Article In the city of Campeche, under the slow-turning ceiling fans of a converted carport behind a pastry shop, 66-year old Emiliano Centurron picked up a microphone for the first time. He stood between a crowd of 200 people packed under the shade, fann... - All Most Recent Content
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