Mexico
Famine devastates states of northern Mexico
By Rafael Azul, January 24, 2012
Mexico’s food crisis is turning into a famine for the marginalized groups such as the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua State.
Mexican students in Guerrero gunned down by government security forces
By Rafael Azul, December 21, 2011
Two Mexican student teachers were killed by Mexican police in the Southern State of Guerrero December 12.
Mexican workers face no alternative in 2012 vote
By Don Knowland, December 7, 2011
With Mexico’s three main parties, the PAN, PRI and PRD, all defending the existing capitalist setup, deteriorating social conditions are creating conditions for mass struggles.
Mexican teachers fight to defend public education
By Rafael Azul, November 28, 2011
Tens of thousands of teachers in 14 Mexican states carried out strikes and protests on November 22 to oppose the government’s attack on public education.
Mounting food crisis in Latin America
By Rafael Azul, November 21, 2011
News of a developing famine in northern Mexico coincides with a recently released report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean that reveals increasing food insecurity throughout this vast region.
Mexican police arrest protesters in Juarez
By Rafael Azul, November 14, 2011
On November 1, some 150 police officers in Juarez México attacked protesters who belong to a pacifist group, the Front of United Citizens.
Floods threaten Mexico and Central America with famine
By Rafael Azul, October 26, 2011
Two weeks of torrential rains have created an environmental crisis that threatens the food supplies of Mexico, Central America and Colombia.
Latin stock markets hit hardest by US credit downgrade
By Luis Arce, August 12, 2011
Latin America’s financial markets suffered the most severe losses of any in the world in the “Black Monday” global sell-off that followed the downgrading of US debt.
CIA, US military operating inside Mexico’s “drug war”
By Bill Van Auken, August 9, 2011
The Mexican government has acknowledged that US intelligence and military officials are deployed inside Mexico, but refused to confirm details on their role in the country’s “drug war” for reasons of “national security”.
Mexico’s former ruling party, the PRI, gains in governors’ races
By Kevin Kearney, July 20, 2011
Mexico’s PRI—which controlled national politics for 70 years before it was unseated in 2000—has managed to parlay popular opposition to President Calderon into electoral gains in three more Mexican states.
Mexican drug gang’s guns traced to US operation
By Bill Van Auken, June 10, 2011
An arsenal of assault rifles and other weapons seized by police in Mexico has been traced to a US government program that intentionally allowed guns to be smuggled across the border.
Global commission brands “drug war” a failure
By Bill Van Auken, June 3, 2011
An international commission that includes former Latin American presidents and US officials issued a scathing indictment of Washington’s “war on drugs.”
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