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Last Saturday, November 15th, 5 people died and 6 women were injured during a scuffle in the community of La Concepcion, a short distance from Acapulco, Guerrero. The townspeople of La Concepcion, belonging to the communal lands of Cacahuatepec, went into mourning after the deadly confrontation between the towns’ inhabitants, a conflict whose roots lie in the clash between transnational…

At a checkpoint south of Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero, members of the 27th Infantry Battalion of the Mexican Army on Tuesday ordered the bus driver to stop and told the Teloloapan students to get off. The soldiers lined the students up facing the bus, where they searched them and made insulting, humiliating remarks, especially to the young girls. They threatened the…

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…