Natalia Cote-Muñoz' report is primarily focused on criminal gangs who have been murdering, raping and exploited migrants for the last 6 years in Mexico. But in her report she also states, "The government’s current approach to migrants is demeaning at best." and she concludes: "Meanwhile, as long as authorities remain... » read this article

Seventy thousand teachers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca struck May 23, demanding better funding for their students. The strike began with a march from four different points to the city’s square, where the educators rallied and then spread out to put pressure on both government and business. Teachers blockaded... » read this article

In May 2011, Mexican investigators uncovered another mass clandestine grave with dozens of mutilated corpses; bringing the total number of victims to 40,000 killed since 2006 when the Calderon regime announced its “war on drug traffickers”.  Backed by advisers, agents and arms, the White House has been the principal promotor... » read this article

Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday which celebrates the victory over French forces on May 5, 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. It is often mistakenly thought to be Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually September 16. More of an emotional victory than a military one, to Mexicans the... » read this article

A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels — overseen by U.S. government agents — threatens to become a major scandal for the Obama administration. The operation, called “Fast and Furious,” was run out of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) office... » read this article

GUELATAO, Mexico — Yank the husks off ears of corn grown in the mountains of southern Mexico, and you may find kernels that are red, yellow, white, blue, black or even variegated. It's only one measure of the diversity of the 60 or so native varieties of corn in Mexico.... » read this article

The scenery is almost postcard perfect: a tiny beach nestled in a cove and surrounded by a lively mangrove forest ecosystem. But local fisherman Bulfrano Castillo is worried; major hotels are rising up around the beach, and the owners are telling local people to scram. "They can't just kick us... » read this article

The poverty-stricken people of Chiapas are still marginalised and experiencing great hardship, 17 years after rebellion. Tuxtla Gutierrez, Dec 31, 2010 - Seventeen years after rallying cries for land and freedom sparked the Zapatista rebellion, a quiet mist cloaks the mountains of Chiapas state in southeast Mexico. Unlike previous years,... » read this article

Gunmen in Guatemala have stormed a prison near the Mexican border and freed a suspected murderer. About 20 men with assault rifles and grenade-launchers attacked the jail in the town of Malacatan and then escaped in a convoy of vehicles pursued by the Guatemalan army and police. A police officer... » read this article

With their 1994 battle cry, “Ya basta!” (“Enough already!”) Mexico’s Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements: Mexico’s movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization. Skip to 2010: the movements for indigenous rights and against corporate globalization have converged again, this time globally, in the... » read this article

Filmmaker Luis Estrada has a knack for capturing the national mood of Mexico with his tragicomedies - and coming to the conclusion with each project, "We've touched bottom" as a country. A decade ago, with Mexico flirting with a possible democratic transition, his film La Ley de Herodes, or Herod's... » read this article

In an interview with La Jornada Michoacán, Daniela Morales talks to British academic, Peter Watt, who argues that neoliberal policies and the war on Mexican drug cartels are part of the same project; to maintain a weak democracy and a militarized state with the purpose of preserving economic and political... » read this article

26th August 2010 - Ecuadorian Luis Fredy Lala told authorities he was the only person to escape alive when gunmen massacred the 58 men and 14 women at a rural ranch just 100 miles from the U.S. border. In an interview from his hospital bed, Lala said he was among... » read this article

TUCSON — Dr. Bruce Parks unzips a white body bag on a steel gurney and gingerly lifts out a human skull and mandible, turning them over in his hands and examining the few teeth still in their sockets. Bodies are stored in a refrigerated area of the Pima County morgue,... » read this article

Brazil and the United States may have settled, for now, their long-running WTO dispute over U.S. cotton subsidies, but the issues it raised remain. After all, Brazilian producers were not the only ones hurt by U.S. dumping of its highly subsidized cotton on world markets, which not only took market... » read this article

With at least 25,000 people slaughtered in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón hurled the Mexican Army into the anti-cartel battle, three questions remain unanswered: Who is being killed, who is doing the killing and why are people being killed? This is apparently considered a small matter to US leaders in... » read this article

“We are confronting a monster; a force that ridicules, deceives and wants to destroy us”. - Miguel Angel Ibara, member of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union, (SME) on the 80th day of a hunger strike. (La Jornada July 18, 2010). There is a direct relation between the rise of criminal... » read this article

The Mexican government’s use of force to shut down a three- year-old miner’s strike in Cananea, in northern Mexico, last month has led to a significant new development on the labor front in the Americas. On June 21, the National Union of Miners and Metal Workers (SNTMMRM), known as Los... » read this article

27 May 2010 President Barack Obama’s order deploying 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border marks another reactionary turn in his immigration policy and a threat of intensified violence against immigrant workers. The order will more than quadruple the National Guard force presently operating in the four southern border states—California,... » read this article

May 3, 2010 To our friends and brothers and sisters To those who share the pain and anguish To the public opinion, saddened and full of rage The the indigenous peoples of Mexico and the world To those whose solidarity envelops us with their deepest condolences To all of you... » read this article