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Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’

7Oct

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Human Rights, Mexico, United Kingdom, USA

Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’

Mexico’s left-wing President López Obrador denounced US hypocrisy and reiterated his call to free Julian Assange, calling him a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” At a press conference, AMLO played a WikiLeaks video showing the US military killing civilians in Iraq. ByBenjamin Norton Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls for the freedom of Julian Assange in a press conference on June 21, 2022 Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated his call for the freedom of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, whom he called a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” In a fiery speech condemning the US government’s hypocrisy in its persecution of Assange, López...

Mexico’s President AMLO condemns US blockade of Cuba as ‘genocide’ and ‘tremendous violation of human rights’

6Oct

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Cuba, Mexico, USA

Mexico’s President AMLO condemns US blockade of Cuba as ‘genocide’ and ‘tremendous violation of human rights’

Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) denounced the illegal US blockade of Cuba as a “type of genocide” and “tremendous violation of human rights.” ByBenjamin Norton Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his June 6, 2022 press conference Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has condemned the illegal US blockade of Cuba as a “type of genocide” and “tremendous violation of human rights.” At his daily press briefing on the morning on June 6, López Obrador was asked about his decision to boycott the US government’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. The Mexican president, known popularly by the acronym AMLO, explained that he refused to attend in order to protest Washington’s...

5Oct

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Mexico

Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’

Mexico’s left-wing President López Obrador denounced US hypocrisy and reiterated his call to free Julian Assange, calling him a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” At a press conference, AMLO played a WikiLeaks video showing the US military killing civilians in Iraq. ByBenjamin Norton Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls for the freedom of Julian Assange in a press conference on June 21, 2022 Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated his call for the freedom of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, whom he called a “prisoner of conscience” and the “best journalist of our time, in the world.” In a fiery speech condemning the US government’s hypocrisy in its persecution of Assange, López...

Mexico Leads in Opposing the Cuba Blockade and US Imperialism

28May

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Cuba, Human Rights, Mexico, USA

Mexico Leads in Opposing the Cuba Blockade and US Imperialism

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Eneas De Troya – CC BY 2.0 Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited Cuba on May 8-9. He began by highlighting regional unity as good for equal promotion of economic development for all states. AMLO addressed themes he had discussed previously when Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel visited Mexico City in 2021. At that time AMLO, by virtue of Mexico serving as president pro tempore, presided over a summit meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean states (CELAC). He proposed building “in the Western Hemisphere something similar to what was the economic community that gave rise to the current European Union.” Two days later, AMLO included Diaz-Canel in a celebration of the 200t...

Doña Rosario: The Unfinished Legacy of a Fiery Mexican Mother and Activist

26Apr

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Mexico

Doña Rosario: The Unfinished Legacy of a Fiery Mexican Mother and Activist

BY KENT PATERSON Rosario Ybarra de la Garza protesting against a massacre in Palestine. Photograph Source: Eneas de Troya – CC BY 2.0 A giant of a woman in Mexican political life, civil society and human rights advocacy passed away on Easter weekend. The founder of Comité Eureka in 1977, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was the trailblazing mother of family-led movements demanding answers about loved ones who were forcibly disappeared by government agents. Retired from public life in recent years, doña Rosario died Saturday, April 16, in her home city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. She was 95 years old. As a middle-aged housewife in Monterrey, doña Rosario’s activism began in 1975 after her son Jesús, who was a medical student linked to the guerrilla September 23 Communist League,...

16Oct

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C.I.A, Mexico, USA

October 2 and the CIA in Mexico

Both before and after the Tlatelolco Massacre on October 2, 1968, the CIA organized intelligence operations on university campuses across Mexico. Soldiers gather in Mexico City on October 2, 1968. (Héctor Gallardo, Wikimedia Commons) This article was originally published in Spanish in Revista Común. Ayear ago, Revista Común published a section of Sergio Aguayo’s book reviewing the events of the Tlatelolco Massacre on October 2 and how the CIA contributed to them. This text explores the CIA’s actions in various universities, especially the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), during the 1960s. Reviewing the CIA’s operations in the 1960s through Mexico offers a privileged point of observation for two reasons: first, the fact that Lee ...

Mexican Judge Pacheco Shot Dead in La Reforma City

21Sep

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Mexico

Mexican Judge Pacheco Shot Dead in La Reforma City

Pacheco was the Oaxaca State Ministerial Police Director in 2004 and presided over the State Litigation Tribunal from January 2016 to April 2017. On Monday, the Oaxaca State’s Administrative Justice Tribunal (TJAO) Judge Enrique Pacheco was shot dead while leaving his house to the gym in La Reforma City. RELATED: Mexico Asks Israel To Extradite Ayotzinapa Case Cover-up Man The gunmen, disguised as municipal cleaners to go unnoticed, shot Pacheco in his van and fled. Although their identity remains unknown so far, the Oaxaca State Attorney General’s Office (FGEO) assured that the crime would not go unpunished. “There is enough evidence to carry out a judicial investigation against the assassins. We will find their whereabouts and make just...

Migrants in Hunger Strike to Demand Free Transit through Mexico

21Sep

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Mexico

Migrants in Hunger Strike to Demand Free Transit through Mexico

They will protest until migrants who remain stranded in Chiapas can continue their journey to the U.S. border. On Monday, migrants and activists began a hunger strike in the Tapachula municipality (Chiapas), demanding to be allowed to advance to the north of Mexico. RELATED: CELAC Summit in Mexico Will Decide OAS Fate The protest is being carried out as a form of pressure towards the authorities so that thousands of undocumented immigrants located in the south of Mexico can travel throughout its territory and thus be able to reach the U.S. This took place when Irineo Mujica, director of the organization People Without Borders, and Luis Garcia, activist of the Center for Human Dignification, informed the immigrants who stay in the city that they were carrying out proce...

Nazi regime is Refusing to Extradite an Accused Criminal

7Sep

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Mexico, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi regime is Refusing to Extradite an Accused Criminal

Once Again, 'Israel' is Refusing to Extradite an Accused Criminal According to an article published on July 15, 2021 in the New York Times, Israel is once again refusing to extradite an accused criminal so he can stand trial.Mexican authorities have accused Tomás Zerón de Lucio, the former director of Mexico’s version of the F.B.I., of abduction, torture and tampering with evidence in the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, and of embezzling about $50 million in state funds in another case. According to an Israeli official interviewed by the New York Times, Israel has refused to extradite Zerón because of Mexico’s criticism of the self-professed Jewish state. Mexico has supported resolutions criticizing Israel at the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...

Don’t Use Cuba Protests to Justify US Intervention, Say Activists in Mexico

23Jul

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Cuba, Mexico, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Don’t Use Cuba Protests to Justify US Intervention, Say Activists in Mexico

Students demonstrate their support for the Cuban Revolution in front of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, on July 17, 2021. BY: José Luis Granados Ceja, Truthout Mexico City, Mexico — Singing songs of revolution and chanting slogans in support of the Cuban Revolution, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on Saturday, July 17, in an expression of solidarity with the Cuban people and their right to self-determination. The jubilant demonstration, organized by both Mexicans and Cubans, came as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel grapples with a destabilization effort by right-wing opponents and U.S. politicians seeking to topple his government. “We believe that solidarity is the essence of humanity,” Francisco Rojas from Va por Cub...