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November 2 and 5, PBI Mexico accompanied the Committee for Integral Defense of Human Rights Gobixa (Código-DH) to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and observed several phases of consultation on the development of the wind project Eolicos del Sur (formerly Mareña Renovables) in the Zapotec community of Juchitan, Oaxaca. After PBI had left the area, several members of the Popular Assembly…

Another act of state aggression occurs amidst Mexico’s escalating social and political climate; the General State Prosecutor of Oaxaca reported that on Thursday, 20 State Investigations Agency officers consulted the San Baltazar Chichicapam municipal authorities, “after reports of unrest where there was an exchange of fire and injuries occurred.”  Even though the state prosecutor did not elaborate on exactly how…

The Canadian government is failing either to investigate or to hold the country’s massive extractives sector accountable for rights abuses committed in Latin American countries, according to petitioners who testified here Tuesday before an international tribunal. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) also heard concerns that the Canadian government is not making the country’s legal system available to victims…

It was here in Iguala, a city whose name means “place of the serene nights,” where local police killed six people and disappeared 43 studentson the night of Sept 26th. This latest episode in Mexico - unlike many other bloody events since massive US - supported militarization began here in 2007 - has made national and international headlines, and sparked tens of thousands of…

As Mexican journalist Luis Hernández Navarro said, in response to a question on why the government would kill normalistas: "Because they can." He added, "You see this in the media and society that the police believe that they won’t be tried for their crimes.” (Source: Waging Nonviolence) This newsletter aims to provide a compilation of recent analytic articles and comprehensive media coverage surrounding…

OAXACA DE JUAREZ, Mexico - For six weeks hundreds of teachers in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca have been living in tents, in the capital city's main plaza, the zocalo. Bonifacio Garcia, one of the protestors, declares, "We will stay here until the state Chamber of Deputies agrees that our education reform will move forward in all our schools." Each week…

They are young people, mostly the children of farming families, students in a rural normal school. That is why they were forcefully disappeared. They defend public education, the rural normal schools, the teaching to serve the most needy and the social transformation of Mexico. This is why they shot at them and kidnapped them. The forced disappearance of the students…