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30May

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Mexico, ZIO-NAZI

Mexican Police Takes Counterinsurgency Lessons From Zio-Nazi's In Chiapas

NOVANEWS Earlier this month, Jorge Luis Llaven Abarca, Mexico’s newly-appointed secretary of public security in Chiapas, announced that discussions had taken place between his office and the Israeli defense ministry. The two countries talked about security coordination at the level of police, prisons and effective use of technology (“Israeli military will train Chiapas police,” Excelsior, 8 May [Spanish]). Yaron Yugman, representative of the Ministry of Defense of Israel in Mexico, meets with the head of Public Security in Chiapas, Jorge Luis Llaven Abarca Chiapas is home to the Zapatistas (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional), a mostly indigenous Maya liberation movement that has enjoyed global grassroots support since it rose up against the Mexican government in 1994. The Za...

3May

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Mexico, USA

The border, Mexican labor and the racist history of U.S. immigration policy

NOVANEWS Immigration and citizenship adapted to capitalists' needs ICE agents terrorize and split up immigrant families. This article was published in the 'Full Rights For All Immigrants' Edition of Liberation. View the complete issue. Capitalist politicians, far-right organizations and media pundits base their anti-immigrant arguments on the claim that undocumented workers—whom they call "illegal aliens" - have broken the law. They fail to mention that the law has changed, sometimes quite radically, to suit the needs of the capitalist system and in response to political struggles waged by U.S. workers, citizens and non-citizens. Immigration and citizenship law is not a fixed standard. It has always functioned both as a product of and a producer of institutional racism. It is a ...

12Feb

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Mexico

Solidarity Brings Freedom and Justice for Zapatista Francisco Sántiz López

NOVANEWS A letter from Raul Zibechi, the highly respected writer, thinker, and analyst from Uruguay, presented another very powerful statement: “Those from above are criminalizing the place occupied by the people who are the color of the earth. That is the justice of the State and the bad government. A ‘justice’ that imprisons the children of Pachamama and those who defend and care for her, but rewards with freedom those who destroy her in order to turn her into a commodity.“The international campaign to free Patishtán and Sántiz López is revealing the true reasons behind their imprisonment. When those from below stand up, when the poor of the world speak out and organize, they are systematically labeled “terrorists” and “violent” and are turned into the targets of defamation campaigns,...

12Feb

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PINOCHET FILM CONTROVERSY EXPOSES N.E.D. FUNDING IN CHILE

NOVANEWS Oscar-nominated ‘No’ caricatures anti-Pinochet campaign An Oscar-nominated film on the 1988 plebiscite that ended the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet is a distortion of history, according to leaders of the real-life No campaign (above). “The central character and hero of ‘No’,” The New York Times reports, “is the fictional René Saavedra, a hip young advertising executive recently returned from exile in Mexico, played by Gael García Bernal (left). Hired to produce the ad campaign for the underdog No side, Saavedra faces resistance from stodgily doctrinaire politicians on the left, but he creates a hopeful rainbow logo and a slogan, ‘Chile, happiness is on its way,’ that turn the tide.”But leading activists from the campaign are highly critical of the film, directed by Pa...

14Nov

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Mexico’s New President Set to Empower a “Devil’s Cartel”

NOVANEWS Baruch Vega, a long-time CIA operative, has raised a red flag over the incoming president of Mexico’s decision to employ the former head of the Colombian National Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, as his security advisor in the war on drugs. CIA Operative Claims Corrupt Colombian Law Enforcer Now Advising Peña Nieto Is Sign Of That Danger Ahead... “I do not think Naranjo will be running a war against drugs,” Vega contends. “He will be running a war to protect Mexican drug traffickers.” Vega contends there is a real danger that Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto is on a path to recreate a similar corrupt alliance between government security forces and major narco-traffickers — many shadowed in the trappings of legitimate business interests — as existed in the early to mid...

8Sep

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Mexico, USA

America’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels

NOVANEWS By Tom Burghardt Global Research In a story which should have made front page headlines, Narco News investigative journalist Bill Conroy revealed that “A high-ranking Sinaloa narco-trafficking organization member’s claim that US officials have struck a deal with the leadership of the Mexican ‘cartel’ appears to be corroborated in large part by the statements of a Mexican diplomat in email correspondence made public recently by the nonprofit media group WikiLeaks.” A series of some five million emails, The Global Intelligence Files, were obtained by the secret-spilling organization as a result of last year’s hack by Anonymous of the Texas-based “global intelligence” firmStratfor. Bad tradecraft aside, the Stratfor dump offer readers insight into a shadowy world where information i...

9Aug

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Mexican people reject electoral fraud

Proletarian The candidate of the left has been cheated of victory for a second time. As the masses take to the streets, US imperialism is wary. The month of July saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of Mexico City to protest the electoral fraud that has, for the second time, deprived the left-wing candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (popularly known as Amlo) of victory in the presidential election.Following the 1 July election, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was declared the winner with 38.2 percent of the vote. Amlo, who was the candidate of his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), Mexico’s largest left-wing party, along with a broad coalition of party and non-party progressive forces including the Party ...

8Jul

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PRI Regains Mexican Presidency

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman Like its northern neighbor, wealth and power dominate Mexican politics. Elections are notoriously tainted. Populist candidates are excluded. The late John Ross said Mexico perfected the art of electoral theft. Longstanding problems fester. For millions, they’re unbearable. They include extreme poverty, unemployment, underemployment, deep-seated private and public corruption, drug-related crime and violence, and political repression. Beyond lip service, none of the candidates addressed them. Conditions are worse now than years earlier. Sunday’s election changed nothing. Privately, Nieto assured Washington that business as usual will continue. On July 2, AP headlined “Mexican elections: PRI, former ruling party, voted back into office,” saying: Institution...

22Jun

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Mexico, USA

Raided Mexican Ranch Linked to U.S. Drug War Corruption

NOVANEWS Bill Conroy Former CIA Asset Claims U.S. Special Forces Assisted Mexican Soldiers In Assault on Stash Site (June 19, 2011- Columbus, NM) – The recent raid of a stash site on the Mexican side of the border suspected of containing a cache of guns and/or drugs is drawing attention once again to the U.S. border town of Columbus, N.M. — where 11 people, including the mayor, police chief and a village trustee, were recently indicted on gun-running charges. The Mexican stash site was raided this past Wednesday evening, June 15, according to former CIA contract pilot and New Mexico resident Tosh Plumlee, who was present at the scene taking photos. The stash site — actually two warehouse buildings on a ranch just south of the border and some 20 miles east of Palomas, Mexico, which...