Mexico
Interview with Mexican Committee of 68 member
“Students were the main targets of the dirty war”
October 31, 2005
Alejandro Alvarez is a Mexican economist and a member of the Committee of 68. As a student he participated in the peaceful student protest of June 10, 1971 which was attacked by paramilitary thugs, le...
Mexican rights group exposes government’s whitewash of student massacres
By Rafael Azul, October 31, 2005
On October 19, the Committee of 68 led a rally in front of Mexico’s Supreme Court in Mexico City to demand an independent investigation into the student massacres of 1968 and 1971 and the &ldquo...
12 perish in Arizona desert
Season of death on US-Mexican border
By Bill Van Auken, May 27, 2005
The so-called season of death began on the border that separates the US and Mexico last weekend, with American Border Patrol agents recovering the bodies of 12 undocumented migrants in the Arizona des...
Massive protest forces end to prosecution of Mexico City’s mayor
By Rafael Azul, May 3, 2005
Mexico’s President Vicente Fox announced last Thursday that the “storm clouds” had cleared in the political crisis that has gripped the country since the government stripped Mexico C...
Impeachment of Mexico City mayor sparks political crisis
By Rafael Azul, April 18, 2005
On April 7, the Mexican House of Deputies stripped Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mayor of Mexico City, of his immunity from prosecution in connection with an obscure case involving a contempt of court ...
Mexico: judge quashes “genocide” indictment of former president Luis Echeverría
By Rafael Azul, August 21, 2004
On July 22, the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Past Social and Political Movements (FEMOSPP), headed by Ignacio Carrillo, ordered the arrest of former Mexican president Luis Echeverría and 11 o...
Faced with mass opposition to war
Mexico’s President Fox leans toward US on Iraq
By Rafael Azul, March 14, 2003
Mexican President Vicente Fox appears to be leaning toward a “yes” vote on the new US-British resolution giving final United Nations sanction for a war of aggression against Iraq. Despite ...
Ex-president stonewalls Mexican massacre probe
By Bill Vann, July 13, 2002
Mexico’s former president Luis Echeverría continued to deny any responsibility for the repression carried out by security forces during the 1960s and 1970s after appearing July 9 for a second t...
Assassination of Mexican human rights activist provokes political crisis
By Peter Daniels, November 12, 2001
The assassination of Mexican human rights attorney Digna Ochoa last month has focused attention on the continuing threats and outright terror facing workers and political dissidents in the country.
Strike by Mexican Volkswagen workers ends
By Gerardo Nebbia, September 11, 2001
The 18-day strike by autoworkers in Mexico that stopped production at the giant Volkswagen-Mexico plant in Puebla state ended September 5 after the union agreed to management’s wage and benefits...
Mexican VW workers reject settlement, continue strike
By Gerardo Nebbia, September 1, 2001
Mexico’s VW workers overwhelmingly rejected a proposed contract settlement and decided to continue their strike for improved wages and working conditions against the German-owned auto giant. Nea...
Zapatistas' march on Mexico City ends in accommodation with President Fox
By Bill Vann, April 11, 2001
Seven years after launching a brief armed confrontation with the Mexican army that left 200 dead in the southern state of Chiapas, the Zapatista guerrilla movement has taken the well-trodden path of t...
