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Zapatistas Versus the “Neoliberal War Against Humanity”

11Dec

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Mexico

Zapatistas Versus the “Neoliberal War Against Humanity”

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: (Jose Villa) at VillaPhotography – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Zapatista revolution has survived in Chiapas, southern Mexico, since 1914, and that is a miracle. Zapatistas endured the assaults of government paramilitaries, the betrayals of Mexican presidents and crushing poverty. “They don’t care that we have nothing,” the Zapatistas said of Mexico’s elite at the start of their first uprising, “absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads, no land, no work, no healthcare, no food, no education, not the right to freely and democratically elect our political representatives nor independence from foreigners.” This specter of destitution loomed over the Zapatistas, and indeed millions of indigenous people because of NAFTA. After a 12-day war ag...

The Migrant Humanitarian Crisis Deepens on the Rio Grande

6Nov

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Mexico, USA

The Migrant Humanitarian Crisis Deepens on the Rio Grande

BY KENT PATERSON Photograph Source: Glysiak – CC BY 3.0 The long-running migrant/refugee crisis gripping the U.S.-Mexico border erupted again into violence on Halloween Day 2022. This time the incident involved mainly Venezuelan asylum seekers who’ve been camped out for weeks on the Rio Grande dividing Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, from El Paso, Texas. An October 31 demonstration in the drying out river bed by migrants seeking entrance into the U.S. turned sour when, according to accounts published in the Ciudad Juárez and El Paso press, a Central American migrant allegedly tossed a rock at deploying U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded by attempting to arrest some protesters and firing pepper spray projectiles. At least two migrants were reportedly injured in the alte...

Assange Awarded the ‘Keys’ to Mexico City in Recognition for Uncovering the Truth

7Oct

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Human Rights, Media, Mexico

Assange Awarded the ‘Keys’ to Mexico City in Recognition for Uncovering the Truth

By Morning Star All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** Julian Assange has been awarded the “keys” to Mexico City in recognition of his dedication to uncovering the truth. Gabriel Shipton, the WikiLeaks founder’s brother, accepted the honour on his behalf at a ceremony in Mexico on Wednesday. He described the award as a “significant” step in the campaign to free his sibling from prison. Mr Assange...

Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’

7Oct

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Human Rights, Mexico, United Kingdom, USA

Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’

Mexico’s left-wing President López Obrador denounced US hypocrisy and reiterated his call to free Julian Assange, calling him a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” At a press conference, AMLO played a WikiLeaks video showing the US military killing civilians in Iraq. ByBenjamin Norton Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls for the freedom of Julian Assange in a press conference on June 21, 2022 Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated his call for the freedom of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, whom he called a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” In a fiery speech condemning the US government’s hypocrisy in its persecution of Assange, López...

Mexico’s President AMLO condemns US blockade of Cuba as ‘genocide’ and ‘tremendous violation of human rights’

6Oct

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Cuba, Mexico, USA

Mexico’s President AMLO condemns US blockade of Cuba as ‘genocide’ and ‘tremendous violation of human rights’

Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) denounced the illegal US blockade of Cuba as a “type of genocide” and “tremendous violation of human rights.” ByBenjamin Norton Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his June 6, 2022 press conference Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has condemned the illegal US blockade of Cuba as a “type of genocide” and “tremendous violation of human rights.” At his daily press briefing on the morning on June 6, López Obrador was asked about his decision to boycott the US government’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. The Mexican president, known popularly by the acronym AMLO, explained that he refused to attend in order to protest Washington’s...

5Oct

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Mexico

Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’

Mexico’s left-wing President López Obrador denounced US hypocrisy and reiterated his call to free Julian Assange, calling him a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” At a press conference, AMLO played a WikiLeaks video showing the US military killing civilians in Iraq. ByBenjamin Norton Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls for the freedom of Julian Assange in a press conference on June 21, 2022 Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated his call for the freedom of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, whom he called a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” In a fiery speech condemning the US government’s hypocrisy in its persecution of Assange, López...

Mexico Leads in Opposing the Cuba Blockade and US Imperialism

28May

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Cuba, Human Rights, Mexico, USA

Mexico Leads in Opposing the Cuba Blockade and US Imperialism

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Eneas De Troya – CC BY 2.0 Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited Cuba on May 8-9. He began by highlighting regional unity as good for equal promotion of economic development for all states. AMLO addressed themes he had discussed previously when Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel visited Mexico City in 2021. At that time AMLO, by virtue of Mexico serving as president pro tempore, presided over a summit meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean states (CELAC). He proposed building “in the Western Hemisphere something similar to what was the economic community that gave rise to the current European Union.” Two days later, AMLO included Diaz-Canel in a celebration of the 200t...

Doña Rosario: The Unfinished Legacy of a Fiery Mexican Mother and Activist

26Apr

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Mexico

Doña Rosario: The Unfinished Legacy of a Fiery Mexican Mother and Activist

BY KENT PATERSON Rosario Ybarra de la Garza protesting against a massacre in Palestine. Photograph Source: Eneas de Troya – CC BY 2.0 A giant of a woman in Mexican political life, civil society and human rights advocacy passed away on Easter weekend. The founder of Comité Eureka in 1977, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was the trailblazing mother of family-led movements demanding answers about loved ones who were forcibly disappeared by government agents. Retired from public life in recent years, doña Rosario died Saturday, April 16, in her home city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. She was 95 years old. As a middle-aged housewife in Monterrey, doña Rosario’s activism began in 1975 after her son Jesús, who was a medical student linked to the guerrilla September 23 Communist League,...

16Oct

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C.I.A, Mexico, USA

October 2 and the CIA in Mexico

Both before and after the Tlatelolco Massacre on October 2, 1968, the CIA organized intelligence operations on university campuses across Mexico. Soldiers gather in Mexico City on October 2, 1968. (Héctor Gallardo, Wikimedia Commons) This article was originally published in Spanish in Revista Común. Ayear ago, Revista Común published a section of Sergio Aguayo’s book reviewing the events of the Tlatelolco Massacre on October 2 and how the CIA contributed to them. This text explores the CIA’s actions in various universities, especially the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), during the 1960s. Reviewing the CIA’s operations in the 1960s through Mexico offers a privileged point of observation for two reasons: first, the fact that Lee ...

Mexican Judge Pacheco Shot Dead in La Reforma City

21Sep

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Mexico

Mexican Judge Pacheco Shot Dead in La Reforma City

Pacheco was the Oaxaca State Ministerial Police Director in 2004 and presided over the State Litigation Tribunal from January 2016 to April 2017. On Monday, the Oaxaca State’s Administrative Justice Tribunal (TJAO) Judge Enrique Pacheco was shot dead while leaving his house to the gym in La Reforma City. RELATED: Mexico Asks Israel To Extradite Ayotzinapa Case Cover-up Man The gunmen, disguised as municipal cleaners to go unnoticed, shot Pacheco in his van and fled. Although their identity remains unknown so far, the Oaxaca State Attorney General’s Office (FGEO) assured that the crime would not go unpunished. “There is enough evidence to carry out a judicial investigation against the assassins. We will find their whereabouts and make just...