tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84313795113107618492011-08-10T06:17:27.699-07:00Maiz Centeotl Chicomecoatl is a Bilingual (Spanish/English) Community Newsletter/Zine. The purpose of our work is to raise the consciousness of our community to the point where they're organizing themselves to break the chains that keep us oppressed. We do this by using media as a tool to bring issues into public spheres that would otherwise not get this type of information.Maiz Centeotl Chicomecoatlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030294447464423239noreply@blogger.comBlogger9851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431379511310761849.post-19629868947438317232010-01-27T16:59:00.000-08:002010-01-27T17:00:00.969-08:00

Yael Anahí López TorresRebelión“La salvación del Estado es la ley suprema para los gobernantes, pero por derivación también para los gobernados”.Norberto Bobbio. 1. Líneas introductorias: Empezamos el año 2010 en México, año lleno de expectativas pero también de pesimismo dados los estragos del año anterior en todos los ámbitos [2] , asimismo mucho se ha hablado de un posible estallido social

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Hugo and the ShockwaveBy NIKOLAS KOZLOFFCounterPunchWhen it comes to making perceptive statements of fact, Hugo Chávez doesn’t have a very good track record. As of late the Venezuelan leader seems to have become mentally unhinged, remarking that former Ugandan dictator and genocidal murderer Idi Amin was a “patriot.” And now Chávez has another zinger: the United States intentionally created the

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Jesús D. FuentesTerceraInformaciónEl llamado Acuerdo para la Reconciliación y Fortalecimiento de la Democracia en Honduras establece que al asumir la Presidencia de Honduras la próxima semana, Porfirio Lobo emitirá un salvoconducto que garantice a Zelaya el respeto a sus garantías individuales.En apenas dos días de la toma de posesión del cargo como presidente de Porfirio Lobo, ganador de las

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Another Confrontation Disrupts Oaxaca CityBy Nancy DaviesCommentary from OaxacaNarco NewsOnce again the government municipal inspectors accosted a group of APPO vendors in the zócalo. The APPO set up a table to collect political signatures in condemnation of the government and Ulises Ruiz Ortiz for violence against the population during the 2006 uprising. Affiliated vendors use the APPO presence

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Gerardo Fernández CasanovaArgenpressLa celebración del centenario de la Revolución Mexicana invita a la reflexión respecto a la enseñanza de su legado. Es particularmente importante hacerlo en la mesa del debate respecto de nuestra identidad como nación, tema este que ha permanecido inconcluso a lo largo de los doscientos años de vida intentando ser independientes, durante los cuales la discusión

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How Water Hogs Hijacked Obama's Delta Science TeamBy DAN BACHERCounterPunchA scientific panel charged with reviewing federal plans to rebuild imperiled Central Valley salmon and Delta smelt populations has been "hijacked" by advocates of increased water pumping from the California Delta, fishing, tribal and environmental groups charge.Fishermen and environmental justice advocates are alarmed that

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RebeliónRecientemente y por primera vez desde 1975, cuando al abandono de España de su colonia y provincia en el Sáhara Occidental siguió la guerra de Marruecos y Mauritania contra el Frente Polisario, los medios mexicanos dedicaron algunas líneas al pueblo saharaui. Los diarios, la televisión y la radio de nuestro país cubrieron la huelga de hambre de Aminetu Haidar, defensora de los derechos

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The Rule of Law Has Been LostBy PAUL CRAIG ROBERTSCounterPunchWhat is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein’s theory of relativity.The greatest human achievement is the subordination of

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Líos con la ley hacen de indocumentados víctimas de norma migratoria en EEUUPilar MarreroLa Opinión Ni el servicio militar más honroso y condecorado sirve para proteger a veteranos de guerra de Estados Unidos de la implacable ley de inmigración, que considera una larga lista delitos no violentos como causa de deportación.Cada vez surgen a la luz más casos de veteranos que, habiendo servido en las

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La OpiniónNot even the most decorated and honorable military service can protect U.S. war veterans from ruthless immigration laws, which consider a long list of non-violent crimes as grounds for deportation.More and more cases have come to light of veterans who, after serving in this country’s Armed Forces and armed conflicts, get in trouble with the law when they come home and end up in

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Por la Unidad de los Pueblos IndígenasPukaraEn Colorado, Estados Unidos, del 3 al 8 de diciembre de 2009 tuvo lugar el XI Encuentro Indígena y Cultural de las Américas. Este undécimo encuentro es consecuencia de un esfuerzo iniciado el año de 1998 en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, en Río Piedras, cuando a iniciativa del actual coordinador internacional de este Encuentro, Ramón Nenadich Ph.D., se

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Three Guns for Every Person By PATRICK COCKBURN CounterPunchProtestors are walking confidently down a street a street in the southern Yemeni port of Aden when there is a rattle of gunfire as the security services shoot into the crowd and people run panic-stricken seeking cover. A man in a check shirt is left lying face down in the dust in the empty street, a stream of blood flowing from a bullet

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by Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezIt has been said that the march of history, particularly in the realmof human rights, is always forward. Embedded within this concept isthe idea that despite tragedies and war, the human condition alwaysprogresses. Unquestionably, whoever created the expression did so longbefore our just completed decade.The decade began with arguably the first fraudulent

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Tichaona NhamoyebondeallAfrica.comTraducido del inglés para Rebelión por Beatriz Morales Bastos Los revolucionarios africanos tienen que dormir ahora con un ojo abierto porque Estados Unidos de América no se detiene ante nada en su intento de establecer Africom, un ejército estadounidense altamente equipado que residirá permanentemente en África para supervisar los intereses imperialistas

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Dear Friends,As we reach the beginning of a new year we would like to thank you forall the support you have given us to help save the Macehualli Center.However, the families helped with the center will lose this importantpillar of support early next year unless we do an extraordinary effortto save it. We have had many fundraising activities to save the Centerin this time of financial distress.

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Pablo AlvaradoLa JornadaEstados Unidos enfrenta una crisis que debe resolver preservando su carácter de nación de inmigrantes. Esto comienza respetando la dignidad e integridad de los seres humanos. Caracterizar el fenómeno de la migración como un asunto de criminalidad aleja al país, cada vez más, de estos principios universales. Cuando 12 millones de personas huyen de la violencia, de desastres

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The Mexican Revolution at 100 By JOHN ROSS CounterPunchEvery hundred years on the tenth year of the century, Mexico seems to explode in social upheaval. In 1810, the war of liberation from the Spanish Crown unleashed a genocidal decade-long conflict. In 1910, the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz triggered a fratricidal bloodbath. In recent months, dire expectations that 2010 would signal

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Un informe advierte de los riesgos de una deportación masivaDavid BrooksLa JornadaUna reforma migratoria integral que incluya la legalización de trabajadores indocumentados nutriría el crecimiento económico y beneficiaria a trabajadores estadunidenses e inmigrantes, concluye un nuevo informe presentado hoy, que intenta repudiar uno de los principales argumentos de fuerzas antimigrantes en este

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Frontera NorteSurAs Mexico prepared to mark the twin anniversary of its 1810 War of Independence and 1910 Revolution--events ushered in with cries of freedom and justice--a prominent newsman was detained and interrogated because of an article he wrote.Juan Angulo Osorio, general director and co-founder of the Guerrero daily El Sur, was forcibly detained December 29 by six agents of the Guerrero

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Amy GoodmanDemocracy NowEn los últimos días, los medios de comunicación se han visto inundados con informes acerca del frustrado atentado al vuelo 253 de Nothwest Airlines el día de Navidad. Cuando Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, ahora conocido como “el hombre del explosivo en la ropa interior”, falló en su presunto ataque, casi 300 personas se salvaron de lo que muy posiblemente habría sido un

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Be There or Be Scared By MISSY COMLEY BEATTIE CounterPunchOn January 16th, peace devotees will gather at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia to protest the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), operated primarily by the CIA to kill al-Qaida in Iraq, Pakistan, and along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. These attacks have killed many more civilians, children included,

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ARGENPRESSEl inmigrante mexicano Jorge Alfredo Solís Palma murió al recibir el impacto de una bala disparada por un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos, informó hoy la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) de México.En un comunicado, la SRE expresó su "profunda preocupación" por el fallecimiento, el pasado 4 de enero, de Solís Palma, en la ciudad de Douglas, Arizona, cerca de

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By Eliot Spitzer and William K. Black and Frank PartnoyNewDeal 2.0In a December New York Times op-ed, we called for the full public release of AIG email messages, internal accounting documents and financial models generated in the last decade. This Thursday, a Bloomberg story revealed that under Timothy Geithner's leadership, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York told AIG to withhold details from

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CubadebateEl ciudadano norteamericano detenido en Cuba fue contratado por una empresa que recluta para los servicios secretos estadounidensesEsa es una nueva adquisición que hay en Estados Unidos, y son agentes, torturadores, espías, que en la privatización de la guerra los contratan, explicó el líder parlamentario en conversación con reporteros en la Plaza de la Revolución.Allí Alarcón participó

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The American Elite By WILLIAM BLUM CounterPunchLincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign policy in Europe and Latin America. He joined the Harvard faculty at 23. Dr. Gordon

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PikunmapucheManifiesto Pikunmapuche Una organización mapuche que defienda posiciones autonomistas y de clase trabajadora Un sector importante de la población mapuche, alrededor de un 70%, vive en ciudades, de ese porcentaje de mapuche urbanos o de ciudad, la mayor parte esta radicada en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. La discriminación, la opresión nacional y la explotación sufrida por los

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UBISORT Seeks to Bring in the Mexican ArmyBy Nancy DaviesNarcoNewsAnother Triqui member of the family of Teresa Bautista, the 24 year old radio broadcaster killed in an ambush in April of 2008, has been murdered. Her brother, a 17-year-old named Isaias Bautista Merino, was killed on Friday while attending the inauguration of new municipal leader Anastasio Juarez in San Juan Copala, the Triqui

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Pedro Echeverría AGENPRESS1. El año 2010 amaneció con más de 110 millones de habitantes, hasta llegar a 112 millones de seres humanos en México. Hace 200 años apenas teníamos poco más de 6 millones con más del doble de territorio (antes que los EEUU nos lo robaran) y hace un siglo, antes de que estalle la revolución de 1910, contábamos con poco más de 15 millones de mexicanos. En los siglos

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Not Everyone Who Opposes U.S. Policy is a Fanatic By ALAN J. SINGERCounterPunch In May 1967 I was a seventeen-year old high school senior and a not particularly religious Jew. I was born in New York City, as were my parents, although my grandparents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. My family strongly identified with the state of Israel and at the time my stepmother was visiting her brother

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Rómulo Pardo SilvaMal PublicadosLos llamados mandatarios son escogidos para los electores por poderosos empresarios que los controlarán y podrían eliminarlos. Reagan, Bush hijo, Obama y Kennedy son algunos ejemplos.En USA el poder reside en la gran burguesía corporativa que maneja a los militares, políticos, jueces, religiosos, y a la población a través de sus medios de comunicación. No hay

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The Question is Whether That Revolution Will be Peaceful... Or if it Will be Violent with an Uprising of Millions of Down-Trodden CitizensBy Ramón Alberto GarzaReporte IndigoMexico City, January 1: The question is if that revolution will be peaceful, with a change of attitude and a re-founding of the Republic that would be developed beyond the interests that currently paralyze the nation…Or if it

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Histórica protesta de indocumentadosDavid BrooksPagina 12Estudiantes inmigrantes latinoamericanos iniciaron ayer el Camino de los Sueños, una caminata de casi 2500 kilómetros de Miami a Washington DC por la dignidad de su comunidad con la demanda de una reforma migratoria para finalizar con la separación de familias, las deportaciones y la vida infrahumana en las sombras para más de 12 millones

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By Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Nelson LichtensteinIn These TimesWhat can one make of the civil war playing itself out inside the Service Employees International Union? "Civil war" is not far from an exaggeration. When the SEIU leadership decided to move against one of its largest locals--SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West--and place it into trusteeship early this year, they unleashed a storm that few

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Juan Cristóbal León CamposRebeliónEl hermano Estado de Campeche es ejemplo de las injusticias y de la impunidad que se vive en nuestro país. El 13 de agosto pasado, los pobladores de San Antonio Ebulá (pueblo fundado hace más de 40 años) fueron desterrados por parapolicías (vándalos) pagados por el empresario Eduardo Escalante quien se arroga la propiedad de las tierras, siendo resguardados los

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By Dave LindorffOpEdNewsThe Taliban suicide attack that killed a group of CIA agents in Afghanistan was big news in the U.S. over the past week. The attack took place on a base that was directing U.S. drone aircraft used to attack Taliban leaders. The airwaves and front pages were filled with sympathetic stories referring to the fact that the female station chief, who was among those killed, was

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Luis Martínez AndradeRebeliónW alter Benjamin escribió en la sexta de sus Tesis sobre la filosofía de la Historia que: “Articular históricamente el pasado no significa conocerlo “como verdaderamente ha sido”. Significa adueñarse de un recuerdo tal como éste relampaguea en un instante de peligro…Sólo tiene derecho a encender en el pasado la chispa de la esperanza aquel historiador traspasado por

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Carlos AvilésLa OpiniónLOS ANGELES -- Some neighborhoods in Southern California are experiencing a kind of truce between rival gangs that used to fight each other.The decrease in gang violence in recent years has led some experts to theorize that gangs are now working together.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Los Angeles told La Opinión that although they are not investigating a

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ARGENPRESSLa Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal (ALDF, Congreso local de la capital mexicana) aprobó una reforma a la Ley al Código Civil para permitir el matrimonio entre homosexuales, con la posibilidad de que podrán adoptar niños.La iniciativa de ley, aprobada en lo general y en lo particular, incluye reformas a seis artículos de ese Código, en especial el 146, para que en lugar de

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Touch Yemen, Get Burned By PATRICK COCKBURN CounterPunchWe are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned This is the tribal chant of the powerful Awaleq tribe of Yemen in which they bid defiance to the world. Its angry tone conveys flavor of Yemeni life and it should give pause to those

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Entrevista a la feminista brasileña Miriam Nobre sobre el Cambio Climático y la Cumbre de ConpenhagueDaniela EstradaIPSLa conferencia sobre cambio climático parece una "gran feria de soluciones", donde la gente evita hablar del problema de fondo, que es el cambio del modelo de desarrollo, dijo a IPS Miriam Nobre, coordinadora del secretariado de la Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres.Nobre, ingeniera

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Ngoc NguyenNew America MediaWahleah Johns grew up near the coal mines of the Black Mesa region of Arizona and experienced first-hand the toll that mining takes on people, the land and the groundwater. Her community, Forest Lake, was one of several communities atop Black Mesa, where Peabody Energy ran the largest strip mining operation in the country on Indian land until recently.Today, Johns, 34,

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Juan Cristóbal León CamposRebeliónLa guerra de conquista iniciada hace más de cinco siglos sobre los pueblos originarios de América aún hoy continúa. La característica principal de los gobiernos es su desprecio a las culturas indígenas y al patrimonio cultural e histórico de nuestro país. Para los poderosos los indígenas solo sirven si están muertos, los que están vivos y trabajan son condenados

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Valeria Fernández New American MediaPHOENIX, Ariz.--It was early on November 27, her daughter’s birthday, when Ana got the call from a social worker.“Are you in the country legally?” the person asked.“No, I’m undocumented,” Ana replied. She had applied for health insurance for her children, both U.S. citizens.The worker paused for a moment and then informed Ana that under a new Arizona state law

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Comunicado del Ejército Popular RevolucionarioAL PUEBLO DE MEXICO A LOS PUEBLOS DEL MUNDO A LOS ORGANISMOS NO GUBERNAMENTALES DEFENSORES DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS A LAS ORGANIZACIONES SOCIALES, POLÍTICAS Y REVOLUCIONARIAS ¡HERMANAS, HERMANOS, CAMARADAS!Por experiencia, los mexicanos sabemos que la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos no ha cumplido con las funciones que dice tener, la supuesta

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Silence of the Lamb-like Lawyers By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS CounterPunchObama’s dwindling band of true believers has taken heart that their man has finally delivered on one of his many promises--the closing of the Guantanamo prison. But the prison is not being closed. It is being moved to Illinois, if the Republicans permit. In truth, Obama has handed his supporters another defeat. Closing Guantanamo

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Jorge LofredoInvestigadorCentro de Documentación de los Movimientos ArmadosPueden destacarse algunos elementos del más reciente comunicado emitido por el Ejército Popular Revolucionario -firmado en Oaxaca- que permiten descubrir parte de su posicionamiento político frente a la coyuntura. Son fundamentalmente útiles para conocer sus tiempos internos y sus siguientes pasos; pero además, para

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Pulse of the Planet By GREGORY BUTTON CounterPunchNearly a year ago on Monday, December 22, 2009, at the Kingston fossil fuel plant in Eastern Tennessee, a fly ash impoundment collapsed and within minutes released 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic fly ash into the Emory River and over 300 acres of land. The spill damaged numerous homes, destroyed a portion of a rail line and covered a portion of a

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Comer lo nuestroEcoportalEntre los compromisos asumidos por el presidente boliviano Evo Morales para su futuro período de gobierno se encuentra terminar con la fuerte dependencia de productos importados para la conformación de la canasta alimentaria de sus compatriotas. Así lo comentó en entrevista con Radio Mundo Real, Miguel Lora, desde La Paz. Miguel es columnista del sitio Bolpress y además

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Violence from PRI UBISORT Becomes ChronicBy Nancy DaviesNarco NewsCommentary from OaxacaLast November 28 in the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala three acts of aggression occurred. Two of them were mentioned in Narconews: While the so-called Union for the Social Well-being of the Triqui Region (UBISORT in its Spanish initials), an organization firmly linked to the PRI, was blocking the

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La JiribillaLa Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos establece en su artículo 4: “nadie estará sometido a esclavitud ni a servidumbre; la esclavitud y la trata de esclavos están prohibidas en todas sus formas”.Sin embargo, y aunque ha sido abolida de manera oficial por los estados y gobiernos, en el mundo actual permanecen en régimen de esclavitud más de 27 millones de personas, una gran

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By Austin KausThe Daily Republic The chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe says he will take whatever peaceful action he can to reverse a land auction that involved disputed tribal land. Brandon Sazue this week vowed to set up teepees on the land, where he will live, fast and pray until the disagreement — involving some 7,100 acres on the Crow Creek Reservation — is settled. FORT THOMPSON — The

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EcoportalEl pueblo de Tinogasta enfrento masivamente la provocación de 5 patoteros de la Mina de Rió Colorado, exigiendo que se quedaran en el campamento hasta que el fiscal, el intendente, y su sequito de concejales, se presentaran en el lugar para dar respuesta a los reclamos por la no instalación de la mina. Frente a las amenazas de detenciones, manifestaron que debían tener un predio

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Frontera NorteSurIn a ruling that could reverberate across the Americas, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has taken the Mexican government to task for the murders of three young women in Ciudad Juarez. In a historic decision published this month, the justices found the government incurred in violations of the American Convention on Human Rights and the 1994 Inter-American Convention on

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Juliana G. Quintanilla y José Martínez CruzRebeliónDe paso lento pero segura de hacia donde se encaminaba, desde la ladera del cerro, donde se ubica la colonia 24 de febrero en Yautepec, la recuerdo con sus ojos pequeños viendo hacia el valle, descansando a intervalos para recuperar la respiración entrecortada que no le permitía llenar de oxígeno sus pulmones.Realmente agobiada por el cansancio

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Arizona sheriff ups the ante against his foesBy Nicholas RiccardiThe Los Angeles TimesThe day after the federal government told Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that he could no longer use his deputies to round up suspected illegal immigrants on the street, the combative Arizona sheriff did just that.He launched one of his notorious "sweeps," in which his officers descend on heavily Latino

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María del Pilar BarcelóRebeliónA Marisela Ortiz, compartiendo su dolor, y en memoria de Jesús Alfredo Portillo SantosPietro Grasso, Fiscal Nacional Antimafia, explica que en los últimos años el creciente control sobre los puertos y aeropuertos colombianos ha forzado a los cárteles de este país a buscar nuevas áreas de almacenamiento de la pasta de coca destinada al mercado estadounidense y

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By Jessica WeisbergAlterNetOn Friday December 4th, an Arizona District Court judge told Walt Staton, a 28 year-old seminary student, that he might be facing 25 days in a federal prison. His crime was "knowingly littering" along the U.S.-Mexico border.One day last December, Staton and a friend named Victor Ceballos, loaded 70 plastic water jugs into the back of a truck and drove from Tucson to

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Google Docs -- Web word processing, presentations and spreadsheetsINTRODUCCIÓN. La ofensiva del gobierno títere de Calderón contra los trabajadores organizados en el Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas ha puesto sobre la mesa el análisis sobre el carácter terrorista del capital y de sus representantes como es el caso de Calderón, Lozano, Casterns y Compañía. La etapa de los gobiernos

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Inside the MaquiladorasBy ANNE VIGNACounterPunch"Crisis? What crisis? You’re sure there’s a new crisis? Here in Tijuana we’re always in crisis”, says Jaime Cotta with a smile. In spite of all the misery that trudges through his office, Cotta manages to retain his sense of humor. Without a doubt, he’s the person who best knows what conditions are really like in the maquiladoras, the assembly-line

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escrito por Lucia Sepulveda ResumenEl joven Mapuche Waikilaf Cadin se encuentra preso en Chile luego de ser detenido en un procedimiento legalizado por las leyes de la dictadura de Pinochet Resumen Latinoamericano - El joven Mapuche Waikilaf Cadin alcanzó a estar en libertad sólo una semana luego de salir de la cárcel de Alta Seguridad de Valdivia, en la austral región de Los Lagos. El 11 de

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By Carol BerryIndian Country TodayPRESCOTT, Ariz. – A Sioux Nation treaty council delegation is demanding that those responsible for sweat lodge deaths at Sedona, Ariz. be held accountable and prosecuted under provisions of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 because the event and its aftermath violated both the treaty and the Lakota ceremonial way of life.“The Lakota follow traditional laws, in

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Daniele GanserRed VoltairePrimera parteEl 31 de mayo de 1972 un auto bomba estalló en un bosque cercano al pueblo llamado Peteano, en Italia, dejando un herido grave y un muerto entre la policía uniformada italiana. Los carabineros habían llegado al lugar después de recibir una llamada telefónica anónima. Al inspeccionar un auto Fiat 500 allí abandonado, uno de los carabineros levantó el capó,

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Mercenary Services By CHRISTOPHER BRAUCHLI CounterPunchThe good news for Blackwater fans is that things are not as bleak as might at first appear. Blackwater has more lives than the victims of its blunders. Earlier this year, I erroneously suggested that Blackwater might very soon be leaving Iraq since it had been told to leave by the Iraqi government. It turned out that the Iraq government

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Por Marta EscurraSEMlacAsunción, noviembre (Especial de SEMlac).- Aquella mañana del 6 de noviembre, Jorgelina Portillo, una mujer indígena de la parcialidad Avá Guaraní de Itakyry, corrió a su choza de troncos y techo de paja a resguardar a sus seis hijos. Les advirtió que sus vidas corrían peligro, que se mantuvieran dentro y no salieran bajo ninguna circunstancia. A sus 31 años, junto con su

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The Peace Candidate Myth By WILLIAM BLUMCounterPunch All the crying from the left about how Obama "the peace candidate" has now become "a war president" ... Whatever are they talking about? Here's what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election campaign:We find Obama threatening, several times, to attack Iran if they don't do what the United States wants them to do nuclear-wise;

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Alba TrejoSEMlacLas redes de masculinidad existentes en Centroamérica buscan afianzarse en el tema de violencia de género para lograr que más hombres crean en la igualdad y, de esta forma, se prevenga y erradique el daño físico, psicológico, sexual y económico del que son víctimas las mujeres.Ésa fue, además, una de las propuestas planteadas en el encuentro multisectorial de países

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Kathleen WellsNNPA U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., gained international acclaim for being the only member in Congress who courageously and extraordinarily voted against the authorization of the use of force following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.Her vote against the resolution expressed her belief that it amounted to giving then-president George W. Bush a blank check to wage war and that the

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Grupos de derecha y religiosos las despojan de ellosGuadalupe Cruz JaimesArgenpressEn el país los avances en materia de derechos humanos de las mujeres, obtenidos durante los últimos 25 años, se ven rebasados por el “grave” retroceso que representa la aprobación de reformas constitucionales en 17 de los 31 estados del país, con los que se protege la vida desde la concepción-fecundación y, en

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On Obama's Peace PrizeOn December 10, you will award the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, citing “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.” We the undersigned are distressed that President Obama, so close upon his receipt of this honor, has opted to escalate the U.S. war in Afghanistan with the deployment of 30,000 additional

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Jorge LofredoInvestigador del Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos ArmadosILa única escisión eperrista reconocida oficialmente, el Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo Insurgente (ERPI), ha sido la única en diez años que ha sido descabezada. Ahora por segunda vez.Este hecho, aparte de la relevancia que guarda para estas cuestiones, encierra en sí mismo una aparente paradoja: la muerte del “

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When Television Makes HistoryBy DAVE ZIRINCounterPunchOn December 13th, a date I’ve basically had tattooed on my arm like the guy from Memento, The People Speak finally makes its debut on the History Channel. This is more than just must-see-TV. It is nothing less than the life's work of “people’s historian” Howard Zinn brought to life by some of the most talented actors, musicians, and poets in

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Valeria FernándezGranmaArizona va en camino de convertirse en el primero de los Estados Unidos en tipificar como delito la mera presencia de inmigrantes indocumentados.Políticos de Arizona vuelven a promover proyectos de ley que convertirían en delito el ingreso sin autorización en el estado, lo cual permitiría a la policía arrestar a cualquiera que atraviese ilegalmente la frontera hacia este

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Growing Up ToxicBy STEVEN HIGGSCounterPunchThe Indiana stretch of the Ohio River Valley is one of the most toxic environments on Earth. On Nov. 24, I took a road trip to Evansville and Mount Vernon to interview John Blair, president of the environmental group Valley Watch, and Marcella Piper-Terry, an autism care provider who has collected extensive background data on her clients' environmental

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Valeria FernándezNew America MediaPHOENIX, Ariz. -- Una nueva ley en Arizona que obliga a funcionarios públicos a denunciar a un inmigrante indocumentado que solicita un beneficio podría resultar en que muchos niños estadounidenses se queden sin servicios.Lideres religiosos, activistas y directivos de organizaciones sin fines de lucro han estado informado a través de la radio en español sobre el

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Valeria FernándezNew America Media PHOENIX, Ariz.--A new Arizona law aimed at denying public benefits to undocumented immigrants could hurt U.S. citizens as well.Pastors, community activists and non-profit directors in Arizona are warning that the bill which took effect last Tuesday could have a chilling effect on immigrant communities and their U.S born children in need of health care, food and

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Claudia NúñezLa OpiniónPARÍS, Francia.— Para salvarse de ser deportada, Azérien corrió a esconderse bajo la cama. Los policías no intentaron arrastrarla para sacarla de entre las patas de la cama, pero lograron su cometido al amenazarla con detener a su madre de origen armenio. Azérien, de siete años, se entregó.Para los hijos de indocumentados la vida en París no es un cuento de castillos y

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Claudia NúñezLa OpiniónPARIS—To save herself from being deported, Azérien ran and hid under the bed. The police didn’t try to drag her out from under the bed, but they threatened to arrest her mother who is Armenian. The 7-year-old girl surrendered.For children of undocumented immigrants, life in Paris is no fairy tale of castles and royalty. Even though they were born in France, the fear of

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Felipe HuenchullánLa Otra Voz“Repentinamente fuimos rodeados por un gigantesco grupo de policías civiles y el GOPE de Carabineros, quienes salieron de los negocios y casas del lugar, fuertemente armados, y de manera muy violenta nos obligaron a tirarnos al suelo. Estos en todo momento nos apuntaban con sus armas y bajo amenaza de matarnos, fuimos subidos amarrados a los carros policiales y a la

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"1810! 1910! 2010!"By JOHN ROSSCounterPunchFact: Every 100 years on the tenth year of the century, Mexico explodes in extravagant social upheaval. In 1810, this distant neighbor nation declared its independence from the Spanish Crown, signaling monumental bloodletting - hundreds of thousands died, mostly people the color of the earth, fully 10 per cent of the census. In 1910, the Mexican

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Entrevista a Marcelo Catrillanca, dirigente mapuche clandestinoPedro CayuqueoPunto FinalEs uno de los líderes mapuches más buscado del país. Y el más escurridizo. Marcelo Osvaldo Catrillanca Queipul (39 años), padre de Camilo (14 años), Paulina (12 años) y Newen (6 años), acaba de cumplir siete años prófugo de la justicia. El año 2002, este dirigente de la Comunidad Temucuicui fue condenado en

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Lebanon 'Accepts' Hezbollah's WeaponsBy FRANKLIN LAMBCounterPunch"It is the right of the Lebanese people, Army and the (Hezbollah led—ed.)Resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, the Kfar Shuba Hills and the northern part of the village of Ghajar as well as to defend Lebanon and its territorial waters in the face of any enemy by all available and legal means.” So reads the Policy Declaration of

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Karol AssunçãoAditalEntidades del Forum Nacional por la Reforma Agraria y Justicia en el Campo se reunieron hoy (25), en Brasilia, con representantes del Gobierno Federal para discutir sobre la situación de la Reforma Agraria en el país y denunciar las acciones de latifundistas. La cuestión continuará siendo debatida entre las partes y, a mediados de diciembre, una nueva reunión deberá realizarse

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By Joshua HollandAlterNetFirst, under pressure from above, Lou Dobbs gave up on the birther conspiracy theories.Then he said that perhaps he'd been wrong to assert that illegal immigrants were spreading leprosy far and wide across the U.S. (or at least he claims to have said he'd been wrong).And now, in the ultimate betrayal of the faux-populist shtick he's been riding all these years, Dobbs told

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César J. Pérez LizasuainRebeliónRecientemente el gobernador de Puerto Rico, el conservador Luis Fortuño, aseguraba que la imparable ola criminal en la isla, consecuencia del tráfico ilegal de drogas, se debía a que el país constituye la tercera frontera, después de México, en cuanto al flujo de sustancias ilegales y que sirve como puente para llegar a los Estados Unidos. Aseguraba que dada las

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Impunity in Sri LankaBy RON RIDENOURCounterPunch"The impunity with which the Sri Lankan government is able to commit these crimes [referring to 2009 war atrocities, including brutal internment of 300,000 Tamils] actually unveils the deeply ingrained racist prejudice that is precisely what led to the marginalization and alienation of the Tamils of Sri Lanka in the first place. That racism has a

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Critican que se deje de apoyar la siembra por intereses de mercadoSusana González G.La JornadaLa generación de biocombustibles en una planta recién inaugurada en Sinaloa, así como la autorización de los cultivos transgénicos, aumentan el riesgo de que la producción nacional de maíz blanco para consumo humano resulte insuficiente, advirtió Guillermina Verdugo López, investigadora de la Universidad

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Occupy Everything! By GEORGE CICCARIELLO-MAHER Berkeley.This was bound to be a big week in California regardless, as the threat of a 32 percent tuition and fee increase across the University of California system made a crashing entrance into reality with Wednesday’s vote by the UC Board of Regents. Perhaps the Regents and UC President Mark Yudof expected that their diversionary tactics--lament

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Entrevista a Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, alcalde de MarinaledaAndrés Mourenza / L. Doğan TiliçBirgünEn Turquía no se conoce mucho la experiencia de Marinaleda, pero la gente de izquierda que ha conocido el ejemplo de su pueblo a través de los artículos del New York Times (EEUU) y Birgün (Turquía) ha quedado impresionada. ¿Podría contarnos cómo empezó todo?En torno al problema del paro de esta

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The Twisted Logic Behind the Prosecution of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS CounterPunchRepublican members of Congress and what masquerades as a “conservative” media are outraged that the Obama administration intends to try in federal court Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, and four alleged co-conspirators. The Republican and right-wing rant that a trial is

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Las Transnacionales Contribuyen a Que Aumente el HambreLa Via CampesinaLa Via Campesina esta aterrada de la arrogancia del sector privado y especialmente de Nestlé, al pretender ofrecer soluciones a la actual crisis alimentaria considerando que son las mismas transnacionales quienes han continuado a contribuir activamente a la creación de esta crisis.Los comentarios del presidente de Nestlé

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South Africa Deports Airline Official After Investigation By JONATHAN COOK CounterPunchSouth Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travellers.The move by the South African

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Iris Armas PadrinoVoltaire La idea fue concebida por el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro para dar respuesta a dos terribles huracanes, George y Match, que azotaron Centroamérica.Tras la llegada el 27 de febrero de 1999 de los primeros estudiantes procedentes de Nicaragua, en solo dos meses y medio las instalaciones de la otrora Academia Naval Granma, al oeste de la capital, fueron transformadas en

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Sarahi UribeNew America MediaThis month the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) celebrated one year of Secure Communities. The program, which checks the immigration status of detainees in jails by comparing their booking information to DHS’ databases, is dangerously misnamed since it actually endangers rather than improves community security.In its press release, DHS gloated that it “identified

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Itziar Ziga, Silvia Fernández y Julia MunarrizGaraCuando las mujeres hemos sido históricamente objeto de deseo... parece que no pasaba nada. Cuando somos sujeto de deseo, ya somos putas y, por lo tanto, estamos expuestas a todoLa tarde del lunes 9 de noviembre tuvimos la oportunidad de entrar al juicio por el asesinato de Nagore Laffage. Salimos de la sala después de las 20:00 horas tan

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YO! Youth Outlook MultimediaPeople Shouldn't Live in FearMy first reaction to this story was "wow!" Not because Jorge was gay or because it was a hate crime, but I was shocked because the police in Puerto Rico said Jorge was victimized because of the “type of lifestyle” he led. It seemed like the police thought he deserved this treatment because he's gay. The police also said anyone who lives "

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Bruno Lima RochaBarómetro Internacional El sábado 17 de octubre el Brasil recordó de golpe que su antigua capital, con más de 6 millones de residentes, es un conjunto de territorios entrecruzados por la disputa de dominio y soberanía de poderes formales y paralelos. El ataque ejecutado por narcotraficantes que acabó con el abatimiento de un helicóptero de la Policía Militar del Estado de Río de

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Frontera NortesurA caravan aimed at upholding women’s rights and stopping violence against women in Ciudad Juarez and Mexico is headed to the U.S. border. Organized by Women in Black along with other women’s and human rights organizations, the caravan set off from Mexico City on November 10.Prominent Chihuahua City women’s activist Irma Campos Madrigal spoke to about 100 people gathered in the

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ArgenpressDebido a los paros técnicos y en menor medida al cierre de algunas maquiladoras, a consecuencia de la crisis económica, en la frontera norte de México la “sobrevivencia marginal” que padecen alrededor de 2.8 millones de trabajadoras se “recrudece”. Ellas se ven obligadas a conseguir un segundo empleo en el sector informal o a ejercer la prostitución.Así lo informó a Cimacnoticias Julia

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A Border Runs Through ThemBy BRENDA NORRELLCensored NewsTucsonTohono O’odham living on the border joined with Ward Churchill to speak out on “Apartheid in America, Surviving Occupation in O’odham Lands,” on Nov. 13. Ofelia Rivas and her brother Julian Rivas, O’odham living on the US/Mexico border, spoke of the impact and desecration of colonization and border militarization.Ofelia Rivas said O’

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