Mexico Archives - Page 8 of 11

27Dec

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Mexico

Record Number of Priests Face Violence, Murder in Mexico

NOVANEWS A photo of Reverend Gregorio Lopez Gorostieta, who was killed in 2014 | Photo: AFP More than 80 percent of priest murders reportedly go unsolved. While Mexico is one of the most devout Catholic countries in the world, for eight consecutive years it has been the world's most dangerous country for priests, who are being killed and attacked at record rates, according to a report from the Catholic Media Centre. RELATED: 30,000 Left Jobless in the Wake of Mexico Fireworks Explosion In 2016, three Mexican priests were killed and four other Catholic teachers were also killed, according to the report from the Catholic Media Centre, which said that 2016 has been the deadliest year for priests since they started keeping records. Between 1990 and 2016, the rate of mu...

21Jul

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Mexico

Another Mexican Journalist Was Just Assassinated

NOVANEWS Pedro Tamayo was reportedly shot 11 times. | Photo: Twitter Tamayo was murdered outside his home by unidentified assailants. Mexican journalist Pedro Rosas Tamayo, who specialized in police reporting, was killed outside his home Wednesday night in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz. RELATED: UNESCO Calls for Probe of Murder of Latino Journalist in Texas According to local Mexican media, Tamayo was hit with at least 11 gunshots at around 11 p.m. after two armed people fired on the reporter at his home, where he lived with his relatives. Tamayo was rushed to hospital but reportedly died in the ambulance. His wife said that a black Volkswagen appeared at the house, with one of the men getting out and shooting Tamayo. In January, Tamayo went missing before reap...

19Jul

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Canada, Mexico, USA

Free Trade Agreements Have Exacerbated a Humanitarian Crisis in Central America

NOVANEWS By Manuel Perez-Rocha U.S. trade negotiators continue to claim that free trade agreements help to support security, but in reality, they exacerbate the root causes of instability in the Mesoamerican region, IPS’s Manuel Perez-Rocha said in a speech at the AFL-CIO conference on U.S. trade policy. “Real security encompasses economic, human, financial, and political security,” he said. Today the Northern triangle of Latin America is one of the most dangerous places in the world. In Mexico alone, there are more than 27,000 people reported missing on top of the 100,000 killed in the so-called war on drugs, Perez-Rocha said. He explained that the origins of this crisis are rooted in structural adjustment policies that the IMF and the World Bank imposed on Central America to pave th...

4Jul

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Mexico, USA

“No Touching”: Peering Through the Iron Bars of the US-Mexico Border, Families Struggle to Connect

NOVANEWS By David Bacon In Playas de Tijuana, on the Mexican side of the border wall between Mexico and the US, Catelina Cespedes and Carlos Alcaide greet Florita Galvez, who is on the US side. The family came from Santa Monica Cohetzala in Puebla to meet at the wall. (Photo: David Bacon) It took two days on the bus for Catalina Cespedes and her husband Teodolo Torres to get from their hometown in Puebla -- Santa Monica Cohetzala -- to Tijuana. On a bright Sunday in May they went to the beach at Playas de Tijuana. There the wall separating Mexico from the United States plunges down a steep hillside and levels off at the Parque de Amistad, or Friendship Park, before crossing the sand and heading out into the Pacific surf. Sunday is the day for families to meet through the border wall. T...

6Apr

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Mexico

Mexican Government Employing Torture in US-Backed Anti-Immigrant Drive

NOVANEWS By Neil Hardt Global Research With the support of the Obama administration, the Mexican government is operating a systematic operation to torture, beat, extort, kidnap, and kill migrants traveling through Mexico en route to find work in northern Mexico and the United States. An April 4 report in the Guardian tells of several indigenous youngsters who were captured by officials with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute (INM), held in captivity, beaten, and deported to Guatemala. The young people, aged 15 to 24, had never been to Guatemala. They were residents of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and speakers of the Mayan language Tzeltal. One 18-year-old was beaten by four Mexican agents who told him that he must sign documents admitting he was Guatemalan or b...

13Feb

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Mexico

Indigenous Central Americans Seek Apology From Pope Francis for Genocide

NOVANEWS Sputnik Ahead of a February 12 visit by Pope Francis to Mexico, around 30 indigenous communities in Michoacan, Mexico, have released a statement demanding that he apologize for killings of some 24 million aboriginal inhabitants, committed with the complicity of the Catholic Church during the colonization of the Americas. The Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacan, Mexico, accused the Catholic Church of being involved in mass genocide, which started with the Spaniards’ arrival to the Central American region in the 16th century. The statement noted that, by the beginning of the 17th century, there were less than 700,000 native inhabitants left alive, from an original population of about 25.2 million, which makes the Spanish intervention and invasion of the Americas one of the lar...

10Dec

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Mexico

Ignoring Canada’s real history in Uganda very poor scholarship

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler A recent Globe and Mail article (reprinted on Rabble.ca) by Gerald Caplan detailing Canadian relations with Uganda made me mad. Why? It was not so much for what’s in the article, but rather what it ignores, which is reality. Any progressive author writing about Canada’s foreign affairs betrays his readers if he ignores the bad this country has done and feeds the benevolent Canadian foreign-policy myth. “Canadians have had ties to Uganda for many decades”, writes Caplan, a self-described “Africa scholar” citing the establishment of diplomatic relations soon after independence. He also mentions many Canadians who “found their way to the country” amidst instability and the federal government taking in Asians expelled by Idi Amin. The former NDP strategist points to s...

22May

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Mexico, Peru, South America, USA, Venezuela

How the US Funds Dissent against Latin American Governments

NOVANEWS teleSUR “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” NED founding father, Allen Weinstein The U.S. government and military have a long history of interfering in the affairs of numerous countries in Latin American and the Caribbean. By the end of the 19th century, there had been at least 10 U.S. military interventions across the hemisphere including Argentina (1890), Chile (1891), Haiti (1891), Panama (1895), Cuba (1898), Puerto Rico (1898) and Nicaragua (1894, 1896, 1898 and 1899). From this time onward, successive U.S. administrations applied different strategies and tactics for involvement in the region as a means to secure and protect its geopolitical and economic interests. However, only recently has there been wider acknowledgement about the role t...

17Feb

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Mexico

Gunmen Kill Mexican Activist Searching for the Disappeared

NOVANEWS Medical examiners search for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students in Cocula, Guerrero. | Photo: Attorney General of Mexico The activist was trying to locate and identify disappeared relatives in mass graves located around Iguala. A Mexican woman belonging to a group of activists searching their disappeared relatives in mass graves was murdered Friday in Iguala, state of Guerrero. Two men on a motorbike shot activist Norma Bruno in the head in front of her three children, reported authorities. The murderers immmediately disappeared. Bruno’s body was handed over to her family, who then blamed the federal authorities for their lack of control over the violence in Iguala. Bruno belonged to the citizen committee Relatives of the Other Disappeared, created after ...

17Feb

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142nd Colombian Journalist Killed since 1977

NOVANEWS Since 1977, at least 142 journalists have been murdered in Colombia. The murdered journalist was recognized for his “critical kind of journalism.” Renowned Colombian journalist Luis Peralta Cuellar, 63, was shot at least seven times and killed near his house Saturday evening, according to witnesses. “Peralta was known for a critical kind of journalism,” stated the Foundation for the Freedom of the Press (FLIP), which condemned the crime. His wife, injured during the attack, was immediately taken from her home in El Doncello, Caqueta, to the nearest hospital. She is reportedly out of danger. The famous reporter headed up the radio station Linda Estereo, a branch of Caracol Radio. The FLIP also revealed that the journalist had received death threats on a numb...