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Narconews: Fitzgerald - Mothers of the Disappeared
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 11:01 am | narconews.com
The Other Journalism along with the Other Campaign have landed in the state of Baja California Sur. This weekend the Other Journalism team covered the subcomandante's meetings with locals who are being forced off their once pristine lands by large ... More >>
Baja Farmers Seize World's Largest Salt Mine
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 11:01 am | narconews.com
There is no time to write you a longer alert as we are once more on the road with the Zapatista Other Campaign, heading up the Baja California Peninsula toward the US border, but something significant happened last night that is now reported on ... More >>
"House of Death" Informant Fingers Mexican US Govs
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:29 am | narconews.com
Bill Conroy's investigation into the "House of Death" Ciudad Juárez murder case has made some major breakthroughs recently in the pages of the Narcosphere. Early this week, Conroy published an email interview he conducted with former Mexican cop ... More >>
Narconews: Reports from Other Campaign in Sinaloa
Friday, 13 October 2006, 1:17 pm | narconews.com
After a five-month suspension due to the Mexican government's brutal attack on the town of Atenco, Subcomandante Marcos' tour of the entire Mexican republic is back in full swing. Now, in The Narco News Bulletin, read the first reports from the Zapatista ... More >>
DHS, DOJ Brass Turned Blind Eye To House Of Death
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 11:30 pm | narconews.com
Now available via The Narcosphere: the latest breakthrough in Bill Conroy's ongoing "House of Death" investigation. Over the last two years Conroy has revealed the details of how a paid informant working for the Justice Department and Immigrations and Customs ... More >>
Zapatista Intergalactic Call - Dec. 30 in Chiapas
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 1:51 pm | narconews.com
Subcomandante Marcos has returned to Mexico City with a group of Zapatista leaders, and met yesterday afternoon with community leaders in the town of Atenco. Narco News reporter Juan Trujillo spoke with one of the Atenco townspeople who was at that meeting ... More >>
Nancy Davies: Oaxaca's Cry For Independence
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 12:31 am | narconews.com
"I'll just offer an observation," writes Nancy Davies in her latest commentary from Oaxaca for Narco News, "which is that Oaxaca state is now governed by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials), not the PRI." More >>
The Other Journalism Heads Toward the Border
Monday, 18 September 2006, 11:58 am | narconews.com
This week’s long-awaited communiqué from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials) arrived as the US House of Representatives approved a $7 billion dollar, 700-mile, wall to be erected along the US-Mexico border. (That’s ... More >>
Giordano: Another Grenade Attack Against Por Esto!
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 11:35 am | narconews.com
Once again, the authentic journalists of Por Esto!, daily newspaper of the Yucatán peninsula, have been attacked, and this time even more violently. Early Friday morning, two fragmentation grenades were thrown into the newspaper's Mérida offices, one ... More >>
Contra-Stye Paramilitary Operations In Oaxaca
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 12:53 am | narconews.com
The repressive response of Oaxaca's government to the popular uprising against its corrupt rule has become more and more violent. Last week, State Attorney General Lizbeth Caña Cadeza made a statement to the press in which she called the Popular ... More >>
On the Eve of the Crisis in Mexican Democracy
Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:15 pm | narconews.com
As the clock ticks toward D-day, the decision day by Mexico's Supreme Electoral Tribunal that must, by September 6, determine an official result of that country's fraudulent July presidential election, water cannons and barricades have been installed around ... More >>
Daria: Two Days in the Life of Oaxaca's Revolution
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 3:42 pm | narconews.com
Daria: Two Days in the Life of Oaxaca's Revolution August 23, 2006 Please Distribute Widely More >>
Fraud & Loathing On The Campaign Trail In Chiapas
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 11:31 am | narconews.com
The credibility of Mexico's electoral authorities gets its second big test of the year as the results of the Chiapas governor's race are counted. Al Giordano reports from Chiapas that while popular outrage is focused on the apparent theft of presidential ... More >>
Giordano: Vote Recount - Davies: Victims of Oaxaca
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 8:21 am | narconews.com
Don't miss the latest commentary from Nancy Davies in Oaxaca, where the revolutionary, teacher-led social movement continues to fight against government repression and for popular control of the state. Davies writes: More >>
Oaxaca’s State TV Station Under Popular Control
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 5:03 pm | narconews.com
The remarkable social uprising in the Mexican stat of Oaxaca continues to break new ground. Yesterday, a large group of Oaxacan women, after marching through the city center, descended on the state television station and peacefully took it over. Within ... More >>
Mexico: Paramilitary Attack- Fears of a Dirty War
Monday, 31 July 2006, 1:21 pm | narconews.com
The latest on Oaxaca's social rebellion can be found in Nancy Davies' commentary today in The Narco News Bulletin. Davies writes that members of the statewide teacher-led movement have vowed to block state government buildings until the governor leaves, ... More >>
Gibler: Reflections on the Politics of Listening
Friday, 21 July 2006, 1:48 pm | narconews.com
Journalist John Gibler, whose in-depth coverage of the Zapatista Other Campaign has been among the most widely read and respected, files a new report in The Narco News Bulletin today responding to some of the scathing critiques launched in recent days ... More >>
Giordano: Mexico's Election Fraud Is Coming Undone
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:47 am | narconews.com
Things are looking worse and worse in Mexico for the Felipe Calderón, his National Action Party, and the Federal Elections Institute that prematurely announced his victory. New evidence of fraud and crimes on the part of the electoral authorities ... More >>
Giordano: And the Winner in Mexico Is...
Saturday, 1 July 2006, 12:39 am | narconews.com
Mexico's hotly contested presidential election is only two days away. In The Narco News Bulletin today, Al Giordano files some final predictions and analysis on what might be in store for the country after Sunday. More >>
Al Giordano: The World Is Going to Hell
Friday, 9 June 2006, 11:30 am | narconews.com
The rainy season has begun somewhere in a country called América. To step outside means to get wet. Some curse its arrival. But others - like the compañero responsible for the small cornfield behind the Narco Newsroom - are visibly pleased. More >>