Teachers belonging to Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers have been blocking a local highway since Wednesday, demanding the liberation of their comrades who are being held hostage by residents of the Tortuguero community and an anti-striking faction in central Oaxaca.   The Mexican state secretary of public safety reported that around 700 vehicles were stranded in the stretch…

The central plaza of Oaxaca is plastered with posters and banners denouncing one atrocity after another, the layers of social movements overlapping on every wall available. Ayotzinapa, the struggle of the Section 22 teachers union, the recent murder of a teenage girl. In this cacophony of protest, on Nov. 30, the Caravan of Central American Mothers Searching for their Disappeared…

Today, on Wednesday December 3, over 43 U.S. cities will participate in an unprecedented national mobilization to demand an end to the deadly “Plan Mexico,” a billion-dollar program to aid Mexico’s corrupt and notoriously violent security forces, ostensibly in their fight against the so-called War on Drugs.   In the wake of the massive human rights crisis in Mexico that…