In 2005 the EZLN came out with the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle, that sets out a bold set of political definitions: it declares the movement anti-capitalist (in those terms) and
Water flooded Mexico City the week of March 16-22, causing major traffic jams, provoking street confrontations, and filling the pages of local and international newspapers. Yet nothing got wet. The long-awaited Fourth
Last year, a journalist in Cancun–a Mayan word for “nest of serpents”–uncovered and wrote about an international ring of pedophilia. The leader, Jean Succar, was subsequently arrested and is in jail in
Guillermo Martínez tenía apenas veinte años cuando un agente de la patrulla fronteriza le disparó por la espalda, a muy poca distancia, en el estado de California. Un gran número de migrantes
O encontro promovido pela OMC em Hong Kong ilustrou amplamente quão difícil é alcançar um consenso quanto às regras do livre-comércio. O fato de que nenhum dos principais envolvidos aceite ceder minimamente
December 17th , the day of the farmers’ march in Hong Kong, turned out to be a day of resistance and repression. The events of that day reflected the lines drawn between
After its Sixth Ministerial, the WTO
Mexico’s absence was noted in the most recent meeting of Mercosur. Neither President Vicente Fox nor Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Derbez, invited to represent the second-largest economy in the region, attended the
Before Mexico hosted the 5th Ministerial Conference, the debates at the center of the World Trade Organization (WTO) sparked little interest in Mexico or in Latin America in general. Although the WTO