Mexico
Project to privatize Mexico’s oil company advances
August 16, 2013Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, of the right-center Revolutionary Institutional Party, has announced long awaited plans for allowing private industry to play a bigger role in the finances of the national oil company, PEMEX.
Read moreCommunist peasant organizers murdered in Mexico
August 9, 2013An important peasant leader in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, Raymundo Velazquez Flores, was murdered along with two companions.
Read moreWhy undocumented immigrants keep coming
June 3, 2013On the night of May 1, 2013, a criminal gang attacked a group of impoverished Central American migrants, who were riding on the top of a freight train passing through Cosoalacaque, in Veracruz, Mexico.
Read moreOaxacan teachers challenge the test
May 6, 2013The testing regime in Mexico is as entrenched as it is in the United States, and its political use is very similar - undermining the rights of teachers, and attacking unions that oppose it.
Read moreJoin Days of Action for worker rights in Mexico
February 19, 2013Actions in the U.S. will vary from protests to delivering letters to Mexican government consulate offices.
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