Knowing that his life was in danger, Abarca began to raise his public profile. In July 2009, he traveled to the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City to deliver a message about Blackfire’s conduct and the threats to his person. A video from that visit shows him telling an embassy representative that Blackfire is using its employees as shock troops for violent attacks on activists.
La reunión de Miami obvió los derechos humanos y los derechos de los refugiados. Parece que no hubo discusión de los abusos gubernamentales como resultado de intensas operaciones conjuntas para detener los flujos migratorios a los Estados Unidos, particularmente por las fuerzas de seguridad mexicanas y cada vez más de las fuerzas centroamericanas encargadas de controlar la emigración de su propio pueblo.
The Miami meeting ignored human rights and refugee rights. There appears to have been no discussion of government abuses as a result of intensified joint operations to stop migrant flows to the United States, particularly by Mexican security forces and increasingly by Central American forces charged with controlling outmigration of their own people.
One month ago today a burly, middle-aged reporter set out from the offices of the news weekly Riodoce that he co-founded some fourteen years ago, walking toward his car at high noon. He had just penned what would be his last column that morning when his life was brought to an abrupt end by two unknown assassins.
Del 14 al 16 de junio las secretarías de Defensa y Marina de México y su co-anfitriones militares del norte lanzarán el nuevo Plan Pentágono para Centroamérica, con la participación de presidentes y otros representantes de los siete países centroamericanos y cinco países observadores. El vicepresidente Mike Pence inaugurará el evento “Conferencia sobre prosperidad y seguridad en Centroamérica” que es un nuevo giro para la Alianza para la Prosperidad.
Mexico’s Secretaries of Government and Foreign Relations and Defense and Marine Secretariats will stand beside their U.S. co-hosts June 15 and 16 to launch the new Plan Pentagon for Central America. They won’t call it that, of course. Vice President Mike Pence will open the event “Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America”, before the presidents, the generals and representatives from observer countries.
Para entender la propuesta de los pueblos es necesario mirar y ser parte de los procesos que se están dando desde abajo, los procesos que están viviendo las comunidades en todo el país.
May Day is a transnational event in the Paso del Norte borderlands of El Paso-Ciudad Juarez-southern New Mexico. At this year’s demonstrations, U.S. and Mexican activists joined together to denounce Trump administration immigration policies, current and looming wars, Peña Nieto administration economic and labor reforms, femicides, the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa college students, attacks on workers, and Mexico’s pending internal security law.
Aquí, la pobreza golpea a todos por igual. Los niños descalzos con la panza abultada son el reflejo tangible de las condiciones tan precarias de vida. Otra muestra ostensible de esa miseria la da la indumentaria harapienta de hombres y mujeres en general. La miseria se ve y se palpa en todas partes.
The collective space created in the gathering of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) is promoting the Indigenous Council of Government. Its councilors – one woman and one man per village – will be elected in May and their spokeswoman will run as an independent candidate in the 2018 presidential campaign.
