Mexico
Mexico’s election tribunal denies Lopéz Obrador’s challenge to July vote
By Rafael Azul, August 29, 2006
Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) went into public session on Monday and threw out most of challenges to the results of the July second presidential elections. The challenges, questioning the ...
Mexico: Election court rejects Lopez Obrador’s demand for full recount
By Rafael Azul, August 8, 2006
On August 5, Mexico’s seven-member Federal Election Tribunal (TEPJF) in a unanimous ruling denied the demand of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the presidential candidate of the Party of the Democr...
Over a million march to demand recount in Mexican election
By Rafael Azul, August 2, 2006
In the largest demonstration in Mexican history, between 1 and 2 million people rallied Sunday in Mexico City’s central square, the Zocalo, to demand a recount in the presidential election that ...
Election crisis in Mexico deepens as one million protestors demand recount
By Rafael Azul, July 18, 2006
The disputed vote in this month’s presidential elections has become the focal point of deep social antagonisms in Mexico. The growing social discontent was on display July 16, when over one mill...
Mexican candidate files challenge in presidential vote
By Rafael Azul and Patrick Martin, July 11, 2006
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate of the opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), filed a formal challenge Sunday to the officially announced outcome of the July 2 ...
Near-tie election deepens Mexico’s crisis
By Rafael Azul, July 6, 2006
No clear winner has emerged from the July 2 presidential election in Mexico. Officials of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) refused to declare a victor until all ballots are counted thi...
Workers’ struggles intensify on eve of Mexican elections
Major candidates offer no solution to the social crisis
By Rafael Azul, July 1, 2006
On Sunday, July 2, Mexican voters will elect a new president and a new Congress. The election takes place under conditions of mounting class tensions, as hundreds of thousands of teachers, miners and ...
Police kill strikers
Mexico: Armed siege of steel mill reveals escalating class war
By Rafael Azul, April 25, 2006
The killing of two young metalworkers in a military siege against strikers at a steel mill in Mexico signals a sharp escalation in the class struggle in Mexico.
National strike by miners, steelworkers reveals class tensions in Mexico
By Rafael Azul, March 7, 2006
Last week, more than a quarter-million miners and steelworkers walked off their jobs in one of the largest industrial strikes in Mexico in three decades. Between March 1 and March 3, hundreds of mines...
After deadly blast, Mexican miners launch strikes to demand safe conditions
By Rafael Azul, March 2, 2006
In the wake of the death of 65 coal miners at Grupo México’s Pasta de Conchos mine, located in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, more than 5,000 miners struck several operations owned by ...
Mexican government suspends search for trapped coal miners
By Rafael Azul, February 27, 2006
On Saturday, February 25, Mexican authorities announced the suspension of rescue efforts for the 65 miners trapped underground after the February 19 explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Cahuila, ...
Mexico: miners trapped after explosion
By Tom Carter and Rafael Azul, February 22, 2006
The fate of 65 miners in a Mexico mine is still unknown, three days after an explosion trapped them underground during the early morning of February 19.
