Last week, Mexico's Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare Javier Lozano Alarcon announced a series of legislative proposals which, if approved, would constitute a major blow against Mexican workers and especially embattled independent unions. The measures presented to a meeting of the Business Coordinating Council will be included in a... » read this article

It was a hot afternoon in central Coyoacán and the sun beat down heavily on the crowd as they awaited the appearance of charismatic Bolivian leader, Evo Morales. The public queued patiently and edged slowly into the Jardín Hidalgo, following mandatory security checks that are the norm at events of... » read this article

Santa Gertrudis, Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca - The 4th annual Zapotec Feria of the Cornfield - Globalization and the Natural Resources - was held in Santa Gertrudis, Sierra Juarez on February 7-8. Organized by the Union of Social Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca (UNOSJO), this year´s event was attended... » read this article

For more than four years, Margarita Estrada assembled and tested computers at a Foxconn factory in the central Mexican city of Guadalajara. Preparing 120 CPUs an hour for shipping was a “stressful” job, the young woman says. Part of Estrada’s duties involved training the large numbers of new workers. Despite... » read this article

Fernando Lopez woke up on a Sunday morning out of a job. For the electrical worker, the feeling was terrifying. "From one day to the next, they left us with no job—nothing," Lopez said, as he marched alongside some 200,000 fellow workers and their supporters in downtown Mexico City on... » read this article

October 2, 2009, marked 41 years since the Tlateloco Massacreof hundreds of students by the Mexican army.  The massacre and the demand for justice are marked by marches all over Mexico every October 2.  They also incorporate demands around poverty, corruption, political prisoners and more.  Two of the three October... » read this article

September 30 - October 1 -- Early this morning, people dressed as members of the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) kidnapped Jose Manuel Hernandez Martinez, aka "El Chema." El Chema is one of the leaders of the Emiliano Zapata Peasant Organization (OCEZ). His whereabouts remain unknown, and fellow OCEZ members fear that... » read this article

Chances are, the average U.S. citizen has no idea that their demand for electricity might require that a Mexican village be flooded for a hydroelectric dam. The question is: if the environmental and human costs were known, would we consume just a little bit less? As part of my own... » read this article

U.S. astronaut Jose M. Hernandez, a Mexican American, said one of the most memorable experiences during his recent trip to space was being able to look at Earth and marvel at a world without borders. After the two-week mission ended earlier this month, Hernandez told Mexico’s Televisa network that the... » read this article

On August 17, 2009, masked men carrying high caliber rifles forced anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca, 52, into an unmarked car as he was leaving the primary school in his hometown of Chicomuselo, Chiapas. Held without contact to his family, it was feared he had been kidnapped. But although the detention... » read this article

In its zeal to protect us from Mexicans who want to pick our fruit and clean our homes, the federal government is walling off our southwestern border. Congress passed the “Secure Fence Act” [SFA] in 2006, authorizing barriers along some portions of the 1969-mile boundary; other stretches will contend with... » read this article

Mexico's fake RCMP report backfires It's been a busy and interesting week regarding developments in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the U.S. First, there was the report in the Mexican media on July 29 that an investigation by officials from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police into the murder of U.S. independent journalist Brad... » read this article

August 3rd, 2009 The Will family today condemned the latest tactics of the Mexican prosecutor general’s office (PGR) in the investigation into the death of photojournalist Brad Will, who was shot while filming street protests in Oaxaca, Mexico in October, 2006. With the leak last week of a report written... » read this article

To: Fernando Gómez Mont       Secretary of the Interior Mexico City It is publicly known that Oaxaca finds itself in an ungovernable situation since the imposition of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz as governor of the state; as no other governor has had to call off proceedings in municipalities and communities in... » read this article

June 8, 2009 For several weeks, from the highest levels of the government of [Oaxaca governor] Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, a state-wide campaign of defamation, harassment and persecution has been orchestrated and unleashed against the Committee in Defense of the Rights of the People (CODEP-APPO), a campaign that brings as one... » read this article

27 March 2009 WSWS - With the announcement of a new border security plan Monday and the two-day visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Mexico City and Monterrey which ended Thursday, Washington is launching a major intervention in Mexico in the name of combating drug trafficking and associated... » read this article

Editor's Note: For years we and our readers have been hearing about the ongoing battles between the people of Oaxaca and the U.S.-backed Mexican Government which has been using oppressive measures to crush dissent. This press release by the Indigenous Community in Oaxaca provides a brief but helpful background for understanding their... » read this article

On December 27, the Israeli army intensified its military campaign against the Palestinian people. From that date until the writing of this declaration, approximately 750 Palestinians have died, many of them non-combatant women and children, and the number of wounded has risen to more than 3,000. The Zionist outpost of... » read this article

In the latest of a string of intimidations and attacks, an attempt is made on the life of the libertarian activist and former APPO Councillor RUBÉN VALENCIA NUÑEZ. Oaxaca of Magon City of Resistance Saturday 10th January 2009-01-11 Urgent Action: ATTEMPTED MURDER OF COMRADE RUBÉN VALENCIA NÚÑEZ We wish to... » read this article

Axis of Logic is seeking telephone numbers and e-mail addresses for activists to use to bring international pressure on the authorities in Mexico responsible for the injustices described below. If successful, we will republish this article with "UPDATE" in the title. - Axis Editors   Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, November... » read this article