Mexico
Mexico: Energy reform referendum reveals impotence of the PRD
By Josué Olmos, August 12, 2008
A non-binding referendum organized by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) on Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s proposed energy reform was held Sunday, July 27 in the Federal District...
Specter of a police state:
Mexican torture videos reveal ties with US military contractors
By Kevin Martinez and Rafael Azul, July 11, 2008
On July 1, videos surfaced on the Internet and Mexican television depicting police officers practicing torture techniques in the city of León, Guanajuato. The videos reveal ongoing ties between Mexic...
Mexico: Election dispute threatens breakup of PRD
By Kevin Kearney, May 7, 2008
The results of the March 16 election for president and general secretary of Mexico’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) are still unknown, and it is increasingly unlikely that the final re...
Mexico: López Obrador may lose control of PRD to “new left” faction
By Kevin Kearney, March 11, 2008
The Mexican opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), one of the three major Mexican bourgeois parties, will hold intra-party elections March 16. An ascendant “new left” faction...
Mexico: Aftermath of the Tabasco floods—another manmade “natural” disaster
By Kevin Kearney, November 21, 2007
Tabasco and neighboring Chiapas state are still reeling from last month’s floods in Mexico, which caused 19 confirmed deaths, caused hundreds to go missing and left hundreds of thousands homeles...
Mexican president deploys troops in wake of oil pipeline bombings
By Kevin Kearney and Don Knowland, September 19, 2007
In the wake of a coordinated series of oil pipeline bombings on September 10, Mexican President Felipe Calderon ordered the deployment of tens of thousands of army troops throughout the country. This ...
Mexico: Calderon uses drug violence as pretext for militarizing society
By Kevin Kearney, June 1, 2007
Much like George Bush in his fraudulent “war on terror,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his media supporters are deeply engaged in a fear campaign to bully Mexican public opinion in...
Mexican government steps up repression in Oaxaca
By Rafael Azul, November 16, 2006
The Mexican city of Oaxaca is under police occupation. Government security forces are engaging in a “dirty war” of arbitrary detentions and disappearances reminiscent of the operations car...
Mexican government launches bloody assault on Oaxaca protesters
By Rafael Azul, October 31, 2006
Thousands of federal riot police invaded Oaxaca on Sunday to crush an oppositional movement that has held control of the southern Mexican state for several months. The significance of this police oper...
Mexico: Government ultimatum against striking teachers
By Rafael Azul and Julio Ponce, October 17, 2006
The Mexican government has threatened striking teachers in the city of Oaxaca with police and military repression this week unless they accept a negotiated agreement between the Vicente Fox government...
Mexico’s political crises intensifies after Calderón is certified as president
By Rafael Azul, September 11, 2006
On Tuesday, September 5, Mexico’s Federal Judicial Elections Tribunal (TEPJF) declared Felipe Calderón Hinojosa the winner of the July 2 presidential election. The decision has only inflamed th...
Mexico: President Fox puts legislature under siege
By Rafael Azul, September 4, 2006
Mexican President Vicente Fox had to cancel his final state of the union speech before the country’s Congress September 1, after legislators protested a massive police/military mobilization agai...
