Mexico
This week in history: The Tlatelolco Massacre
October 1, 2018Fifty years ago, on October 2, 1968, a horrific massacre of students and protesters took place at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas (Three Cultures Square) in the Tlatelolco housing complex in Mexico City. To this...
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El líder del sindicato de mineros, Gómez Urrutia, vuelve a México como senador
September 14, 2018Ha tomado 12 años de exilio y exhaustivo apoyo, pero Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, presidente de Los Mineros, el sindicato mexicano de trabajadores mineros, metalúrgicos, siderúrgicos y similares, está finalmente de vuelta en México como senador.
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Miners’ union leader Gómez Urrutia returns to Mexico as a senator
September 10, 2018MEXICO CITY -- It’s taken 12 years of exile and strong support all that time from the United Steelworkers, but Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, president of Los Mineros, the independent Mexican union of steel workers, mine workers...
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What was the life of this guest worker worth?
August 17, 2018While Washington state agencies reduce farmworker pay and find employers faultless for a death in the fields, Trump and congressional Republicans back proposals to turn farmworking into permanent indentured servitude.
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Has the right given up power in Mexico?
July 13, 2018AMLO and his party have scored a major victory, but don't expect the ruling class parties to just surrender.
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