The Office of the National Commissioner said that the school has no reports of missing students. ~ By Telesur Forensic examiners during an operation to look for human remains in the forested mountains outside Cocula on October. (Photo: Reuters) Hours after reports that 31 students from Cocula, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, had been abducted by a criminal…
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/04/the-rancid-myth-of-columbus/ What Happened to the Indigenous Race? The Rancid Myth of Columbus by RODOLFO ACUÑA When César Chávez was asked what he thought about the term la raza, he answered the question with a question, asking, what was wrong with the indigenous race? The word raza was popularized by José Vasconselos who in 1925 wrote an essay titled “La…
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, July 30, 2013 – From the United States, the heart of the empire that imposes its laws on the entire planet, thousands of voices of the most scorned and forgotten people are now being raised to show millions of men and women what dignity really is. Chiapas is the…
Written by Dawn Paley Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:52 Source: Toward Freedom Saul Reyes Salazar is a man who understands loss. In January 2010, his sister Josefina was shot in the head, following a botched kidnapping in their hometown of Guadalupe los Bravos, across the border bridge from Tornillo, Texas. She was, at the…
Source: Indigenous Environmental Network Indigenous Peoples and allies from Chiapas and the Amazon protest California REDD in Sacramento in front of the capital building, after a California Air Resources Board hearing where they testified on the adverse impacts that the possible inclusion of REDD was already having on communities. October 18, 2012. Photo: Jeff Conant/Friends of the…
source url: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/onthebacksofmexicanos/ It is a fact that never in the history of this country’s parasitical existence has it every fully supported itself. Just as the settler economy of the east was erected on the backs of African and indigenous slaves, so too was the economy of the west erected on the blood and sweat…
U.S. and West African troops train in Senegal on July 13, 2012. This exercise included troops from Senegal, Gambia, Guinea and Burkina Faso. Photo: Marines For years, West African cocaine traffickers have worked as mules for Latin American drug cartels seeking to smuggle their powder to Europe. But now the mules are going independent…
AFRICA: (24 Countries and 115 between militias-guerrillas, separatist groups and anarchic groups involved) Hot Spots: Central African Republic, Darfur, Democrati Republic of Congo, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Puntland, Somalia, Somaliland –Algeria: fights between regular army and: al-Qaeda Organization in the Maghreb (AQIM) or al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) since 2005 (known in the past as…
Andalusia Knoll Ruben Figueroa (on left) In the face of thousands of kidnappings and an inept government, Ruben Figueroa dedicates himself to finding disappeared Central American migrants in Mexico. On February 14th, Ruben Figueroa helped connect Brigido Lopez Mateo, a 26-year-old Honduran Migrant, to his mother, who had in fact thought he had been disappeared…
The U.S. has a long and intense history of institutionalized racial violence against Latinas/os in the form of physical assaults, beatings, and murders. The violent racialized framing of Latinas/os has been a constant narrative throughout U.S. history including, but not limited to, the U.S. – Mexican War (1846-1848), the lynching of Mexicans (1848-1928), and…
Written by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez, Translation by Clayton Conn Saturday, 16 February 2013 11:06 Source: Desinformémonos Visionary, military strategist, and organizer of the people, these are just some of the characteristics of the new Subcomandante of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). During the first days of January 1994 he was known as Major…
Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda Tony Cartalucci Infowars.com August 22, 2012 Image: From Amnesty International USA’s website, “Free Pussy Riot.” “Help Amnesty International send a truckload of balaclavas to Putin.” This childish stunt smacks of US State Department-funded Gene Sharp antics – and meshes directly with the US State Department’s goal of undermining…
What kind of event would allow the president to define as terrorists all gun owners opposed to gun confiscating executive orders? What would it take to link 2nd amendment with al Qaeda? Or is this government incapable of black-op false-flag operations?
Nearly Intact 1,200 Year-Old Funerary Vessel Identified in Oaxaca, Mexico Temples Information surrounding an exceptional effigy vessel, found a few months ago in a mortuary temple at the Atzompa Archaeological Zone in Oaxaca, has been released by archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The ancient city of Atzompa, was one…
La violencia no da tregua en México México mantuvo altos niveles de violencia durante el primer mes de gobierno del presidenteMéxico mantuvo altos niveles de violencia durante el primer mes de gobierno del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI), quien asumió el primero de diciembre pasado. Desde esa fecha hasta ahora se reportaron al…
Dogma and Geopolitics 