Política México Entries

7 de Julio, 2008

¡Brad Will Resurrected!

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Oaxaca , Política México , Violencia | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, CIA, Citizen Journalism, Oaxaca, Ruiz, truth

THE SPIRIT OF BRAD WILL shall not be forgotten so easily. The fight for the telling and finding of truth and the placing of oneself into harm's way to do so will go on. Bradley Roland Will is a spiritual guide for this fight, and his name and cause...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:39 AM.  | | (4)

26 de Junio, 2008

The Realestateconquista

Categorized under Historia , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: Economy, fotoshop, historia, Housing Debacle, Lou Dobbs, Mexicans, Mexico, Reconquista, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

AS THE AMIGO who sent this link wrote: "Lou must be having a bad day." And just knowing that brings some sun to these gray skies. June 25 (Bloomberg) -- More than a century and a half after Mexico lost Texas to the U.S., Virgilio Garza wants a piece...

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29 de Abril, 2008

A Proper Context

Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Format, historia, Latino, Mexico

MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas...

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7 de Marzo, 2008

MALVERDE - La Marcha

Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, HR4437, Immigration, Latino, MALVERDE, May Day, Mexicans, Mexico, music, YouTube

I KNOW you been bumpin' this. For when gente feel like they've had enough Flamenco for the evening. Some rhythm and flow from Mexican American Hip Hop artist Malverde....

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28 de Enero, 2008

Eufrosina for Mayor!

Categorized under Indígena , Oaxaca , Política México , Sexismo | Tags: indigenous, Mexicans, Mexico, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Zapotec

THOUGH IT IS TRICKY to judge other cultures by our own standards (especially when we have so far to go ourselves), I don't think there's any question that this is a pretty unacceptable situation for las mujeres. It reminds me of the perverse idea that makes the rounds in the...

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15 de Enero, 2008

Oaxaqueño Youth Under Attack

Categorized under Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Oaxaca

AND THE CORRUPTION IN OAXACA refuses to die a quiet death. Urban Paramilitaries Provoke and Attack a Youth March Today, January 15th, 2007, before the beginning of a youth march for the liberation of political prisoners, Urban Paramilitaries (porros) have initiated a series of provocations to defame the social...

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20 de Noviembre, 2007

¡Viva la Revolución!

Categorized under Historia , Política México , Resistencia | Tags: Election, familia, historia, Mexico, Migrant farmers, Oaxaca, Obrador, Power to the People, Revolutionaries, Zapata

NOVEMBER 20 is the day, in 1910, that the Mexican Porfiriato—the rule of Porfirio Díaz [aka José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz], showed its first serious cracks. November 20 is understood as the day that began the Mexican Revolution of 1910, as it is the day Francisco Madera made...

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16 de Septiembre, 2007

México's Dia de la Independencia

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Política México , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, Xicanos

THIS IS THE DAY TO SHOUT and let that Mexican@ pride ring out. The revolution that drove the Spaniards and colonial rule from Mexico was long (ten years), and bloody, and complicated, many factions of the people having different agendas and levels of participation and reward. (As Marcos has...

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13 de Septiembre, 2007

Back in the Good Ole O.R.

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: activism, borders, Chris Simcox, Environment, False History, Immigration, KGB Bar, New York City, NYC 2007 Pro-Immigration Meetup, The Haunted Land

AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled...

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27 de Agosto, 2007

Atenco, Oaxaca, Chiapas

Categorized under Gobierno , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Atenco, Chiapas, Mexico, Oaxaca

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25 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira Brings the Fight to México

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Latin America , Medios , Migra , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Elvira Arellano, migra, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Ruiz

ELVIRA WON'T REST, and though she was prevented by men with guns from showing up in D.C. to step to what she felt was unjust persecution and law, she now speaks her peace to the government of Mexico. I have a feeling this mujer is determined to confront the...

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17 de Agosto, 2007

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to Visit USA

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Mexicans, Mexico, Oaxaca, putos, Ruiz

DEVELOPING NEWS from elenemigocomun.net (email list): La Jornada and the State of Guanajuato confirm that Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez, the Governor of Guanajuato, are visiting Mexican Consulates in Chicago today (August 17th), New York City tomorrow (August 18th) and Dallas on Saturday (August 19th). Locations...

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14 de Agosto, 2007

Proud Patron Saint of Street Vendors: Alejandra!

Categorized under Política México | Tags: Hope, Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, Que Viva Las Mujeres

HERE'S THE STORY of Alejandra Barrios Richard, a great-grandmother, a tough fighter, and someone you want on your side when things go down: MEXICO CITY -- Fight your way through parts of downtown Mexico City and you'll understand why Mayor Marcelo Ebrard wants to clean up this town. Street...

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22 de Julio, 2007

The Appearance of Health

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Política México | Tags: Oaxaca

today while we sat in the zocalo and LJT ran around and climbed things we saw a man take off his clothes down to his shorts and climb into one of the fountains. these fountains are unreliable at best, some days on some days off; most of the sources...

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27 de Abril, 2007

You Can't Deport the Truth

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia , Indígena , Ley , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, Change, Chicanism@, False History, Fear, historia, Hutto, hypocrisy, indigenous, mexicans, YouTube

BIG GOLD-TOPPED PROPZ to mis amig@s sech as XicanoPwr and Marisa at Latina Lista and mi güero blo'migo at Mexfiles, and Migra Matters and No Más Muertes and all the other soldader@s who stare the border issue in the face day after day after day after day. I read...

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28 de Marzo, 2007

Bullets That Cannot Kill Truth

Categorized under Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: APPO, Oaxaca, Power to the People

OAXACA. Tuesday, November 2007. Oaxacan Peoples Popular Assembly (APPO) member Marcos Garcia is ambushed by four men strapped with assault rifles, who fire over 140 bullets at his vehicle. Eight of those hit Garcia. But he lives. And now he tells his story. This is an interview conducted by four...

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9 de Febrero, 2007

Felipe Calderón, Puppet at the Gates of Davos

Categorized under Globalización , Latin America , Política México | Tags: Calderon, eat the rich, Election, Fraud, NAFTA, Obrador

MEXICAN "PRESIDENT" FELIPE CALDERON, LIKE SOME SNICKERING BEGGAR desperate to hang from a Bush-y scepter, courts a cadre of global investors by showing what a Nice White Boy he can be, by showing how Down Wit' Murka he is; by showing how much he thinks Chavez is teh Yuk;...

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2 de Febrero, 2007

The Magical, Mysterious, Golden, Corn Cake

Categorized under Blogando , Historia , Humor , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , día festivo | Tags: Pat Buchanan, satire

The Magical, Mysterious, Golden, Corn Cake BOOK 1: Tense Turrets and Taut Triggers. A box. I WAS AGAIN BUT A SHIFTING WEND making its way forward under the swaying palms, under the pre-dawn streaking of a grand magenta sky light; the stealthy and purpose-driven Peter Pan of the Xicano underworld...

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3 de Enero, 2007

Remembering Ramona

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Historia , Política México | Tags: activism, Chicanism@, derechos de mujeres, EZLN, Hope, indigenous, SCF

THOSE WHO ARE AWARE OF THE OTHER Campaign know who Comandanta Ramona was. For those who do not, she was a very important part of the EZLN, an activist for women if ever there was one, and the author of the Zapatista Revolutionary Laws for Women. Her kidney transplant gave...

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21 de Diciembre, 2006

Mexico Profundo and A New Way Forward

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Oaxaca , Política México , Resistencia | Tags: APPO, borders, Calderon, Capitalism, EZLN, False History, Hope, Imperialism, indigenous, Mexico

GUSTAVO ESTEVA has written an amazing three-part article on Mexico's divisions and decay, her history, the effects of NAFTA, Neoliberalism, the EZLN (and why they are a hugely important fact), Globalization, and the roots and reasons for what is going on right now in Oaxaca. But more than some...

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Oaxaca Call for Global Solidarity

Categorized under Acción , Oaxaca , Política México , Raza , Resistencia | Tags: activism, brown pride, EZLN, indigenous, Mexico

FRIDAY, EL 22 DE DICIEMBRE (TOMORROW) is the day that Solidarity Actions with Oaxaca begin. If you have only come across this post and are wondering why this would be important to you, read here, and there's much more here. EZLN llama a Movilización Mundial para Oaxaca (EZLN calls for...

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20 de Diciembre, 2006

What Matters is What Will Arise From Below

Categorized under Política México , Raza | Tags: eat the rich, EZLN, Imperialism, indigenous, Mexico, Oaxaca, Power to the People, resistance

SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS (DELEGATE ZERO) says that the violence in Oaxaca is only the tip of the iceberg, the fringe of the frost, the bubbling up of viral and ubiquitous putrefaction and discontent churning through the heart of Mexico. In Nuevo Laredo, they told us that the problem in Tamaulipas...

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15 de Diciembre, 2006

Cold As ICE

Categorized under Política México | Tags:

Interesting. Newly released evidence in a gang-style murder in Mexico last month reveals that the still unidentified victim -- a male found in a city park in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico with a finger stuffed in his mouth, which is a punishment traditionally inflicted by drug traffickers upon informants -- had...

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The Story That Changes the World

Categorized under Gobierno , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Farming, indigenous

WE WONDER HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD and we often assume this means something huge and unattainable by mortal beings. "Changing the world" is a phrase for simpering, bleeding-hearts, and pleas from deranged protestors pounding at the White House gates. It's a puffed-up lyric from a Disney® flick, or...

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14 de Diciembre, 2006

Catch A Fire, Oaxaca Style

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Ley , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: APPO, Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, Election, False History, Hope, hype, Mexico, Ruiz

IT LOOKS LIKE HELPFUL MINIONS OF FLAME have smiled up at Oaxaca's Governor Ulisses Ruiz, for records kept in his offices that would most likely have shown many illegal exchanges are now...ash. Ruiz of course, claims it was the APPO's use of molotov cocktails, but there are many who...

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9 de Diciembre, 2006

Mexican Feds Chase State Cops

Categorized under Ley , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, Oaxaca, Ruiz

WHETHER CALDERON IS GOING AFTER THE OAXACA STATE POLICE and prosecutor so soon after his installment for purely political reasons or because he cares about those people and what happened to them is secondary to the fact that he is going after them. So let's see what the "evidence" shows....

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6 de Diciembre, 2006

A Simmering Cauldron

Categorized under Política México | Tags:

I HAVE THE FEELING we are on the brink of a Brand New Day for dear, old México....

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2 de Diciembre, 2006

Casa de la Muerte

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: border, gonzales, House of Death, mexicans, racism, War on Drugs

THERE IS A DARK STORY that the White House is trying to suppress, most of the media is ignoring, and that we are not going to let pass by. It is a true story, a horror story. What is being billed as "The House of Death" is an account...

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29 de Noviembre, 2006

Dis Unity and the Stolen Crown

Categorized under Política México | Tags: Calderon

THOSE FIERY AND PASSIONATE Mexicans are at it again! Doing that damn "put your body where your beliefs are" thing! The Mexican congress actually got into a physical situation, the right-wing PAN (National Action Party) faction terrified that the PRI (Party of the Democratic Revolution) will block the inauguration...

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6 de Noviembre, 2006

Explosions Hit Mexico City

Categorized under Política México | Tags: indigenous, mexico, Oaxaca

BLOWING THE NEWS OF A PEACEFUL MARCH OF THOUSANDS out of the news cycle completely, the Associated Press reports that multiple explosions have occurred in Mexico City. And Mexico's struggle continues playing out right in front of our eyes. (AP) MEXICO CITY — Simultaneous explosions hit the Federal Electoral Tribunal,...

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12 de Octubre, 2006

Mexico Says No to Yahoo Space Lasers

Categorized under Historia , Política México | Tags: Oaxaca

THE STRANGE MEXICANS have refused to allow the marketing geniuses at Yahoo, Inc. to stage their space-laser-alien-to-alien data transmission from the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan. Oddly, the Mexicans seem to care more about preserving this ancient site than in indulging some spectacuganza for an American Internet giant. "We...

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11 de Octubre, 2006

The Story Always Unfolding

Categorized under Historia , New Mexican Memes , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Oaxaca

MEXICANS SHOW US HOW TO DO IT, once again, inspiring (or shaming, whichever works best for ya) by comparison. It's good to be taught about the positive aspects of your heritage. This is important to give to your own young. To give them positive memes and thoughts and truths,...

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3 de Octubre, 2006

The Problem In Oaxaca

Categorized under Acción , Gobierno , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Oaxaca

BRINGING YOU AN IN-DEPTH PIECE OF BACKGROUND REPORTING on Oaxacan developments, as understood by one Rebecca Barroso. The Unapologetic Mexican cannot place his sterling silver reputation behind all opinions or facts in this piece, as he has not researched them. But he would be negligent in his duty to...

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2 de Octubre, 2006

A Candle for Oaxaca, A Prayer for America

Categorized under Acción , Gobierno , New Mexican Memes , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Oaxaca

A CANDLE FOR OAXACA, en mi corazón y en mi cuarto. If you read this blog, chances are your interests have already taken you to sources of information on what is happening in Oaxaca, México. But if not, you can easily find many good reports in various blogs and...

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21 de Septiembre, 2006

Good Perrito, Gooood!

Categorized under Gobierno , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags:

IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE that the United States is bending fingers and directing threats at whomever it can, in her attempt to derail Venezuela's bid for a two-year seat on the UN Security Council. After all, you can hardly have sitting members who do not recognize this Day...

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5 de Septiembre, 2006

Calderón Steals the Throne

Categorized under Política México | Tags:

Ladrón....

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4 de Septiembre, 2006

Third Bomb Attack on Mérida's Por Esto!

Categorized under New Mexican Memes , Política México , Protesta | Tags:

YESTERDAY, two grenades were thrown into the lobby of Por Esto! a daily newspaper printed in Mérida, capital of the mostly poor and indigenous state of Yucatán, Mexico. Por Esto! speaks for these people, and this is not the first time Por Esto! has been attacked for doing as much....

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1 de Septiembre, 2006

Tail Between His Legs, Fox Flees the Stage

Categorized under Gobierno , New Mexican Memes , Política México , Protesta | Tags:

AND JUST WHEN YOU ARE FEELING overwhelmed by the murder of democracy; just when you feel you cannot take the tide of bad news another minute; just when you feel that all the crooks are getting away with a grin and a line so thin that the children can...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, sel