Tag Archives: Drug Trafficking

The CNI’s Position on the Wave of Repression Waged against the People

Posted on 02/04/2015 by Ed Sykes

To the original peoples of Mexico and the World; To the National and International Sixth; To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation; And to the memory of Don Félix Serdán Nájera, our leading brother.[1] Gathered in the Amatlán de Quetzalzoatl … Continue reading →

Posted in Zapatismo, Zapatistas | Tagged Anarchism, Assassination, Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Bad Government, Bourgeois Democracy, Capitalism, Caracoles, Change, Chiapas, CNI, Community Police Forces, Counterinsurgency, Counterrevolution, Death, Democracy, Dignity, Drug Cartels, Drug Trafficking, Education, EZLN, Freedom, Galeano, Guerrero, Impunity, Injustice, Libertarian Communism, libertarian socialism, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatismo, Zapatistas | 4 Comments

MEXICO: CNTE, Zapatistas & CRAC-PC Unite Around Ayotzinapa

Posted on 18/11/2014 by Ed Sykes

Three social movements that have represented the hopes of Mexican people for autonomy and justice in recent years have been the CNTE teaching union, the Zapatistas, and the community police forces of the CRAC-PC. Strongest in the southern states of … Continue reading →

Posted in Abarca, Aguirre, Anarchism, Assassination, Autodefensas, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Bourgeois Democracy, capitalism, Democracy, dignity, Education, Enrique Peña Nieto, Exploitation, EZLN, Iguala, Impunity, independence, Injustice, Latin America, maestros, Murder, PAN, PRD, PRI, Zapatismo | Tagged Abarca, Aguirre, Anarchism, Assassination, Authoritarianism, Autodefensas, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Bad Government, Bourgeois Democracy, Capitalism, Caracoles, CECOP, Change, Chiapas, CNTE, Communism, Community Police, Community Police Forces, Counterinsurgency, Counterrevolution, CRAC-PC, Death, Democracy, Dignity, Drug Cartels, Drug Trafficking, Education, Exploitation, EZLN, Fascism, Free Nestora, Freedom, Galeano, Globalisation, Government, Guerrero, Iguala, Impunity, Independence, Injustice, Justice, La Realidad, Latin America, Libertarian Communism, libertarian socialism, Media, Mexico, Mexico City, Michoacán, Murder, Neoliberalism, Nestora, Nestora Salgado, Oppression, Organised Crime, PAN, Peace, Peña Nieto, Politics, Poverty, PRD, PRI, Proletariat, Protests, Self-Defence, Self-Government, Socialism, Solidarity, State, Teachers, Zapatismo, Zapatistas | 1 Comment

The Political Murders of Ayotzinapa & the October 8th Solidarity March in Mexico City

Posted on 09/10/2014 by Ed Sykes

Last weekend, 28 charred bodies were found in Iguala, Guerrero, in what was another in a long line of mass murders in Mexico since the drugs trade became more prominent in the 1990s. This time, however, the BBC reported that … Continue reading →

Posted in #AyotzinapaNoSeOlvida, #JusticiaParaAyotzinapa, #TodosSomosAyotzinapa, #TodxsSomxsAyotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Drug Cartels, Education, Free Nestora, Guerrero, Iguala, Mireles, Nestora Salgado, Normalistas, PAN, PRD, PRI, Teachers | Tagged #AyotzinapaNoSeOlvida, #JusticiaParaAyotzinapa, #TodosSomosAyotzinapa, #TodxsSomxsAyotzinapa, Anarchism, Assassination, Authoritarianism, Autodefensas, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Bad Government, Bourgeois Democracy, Capitalism, Change, CNTE, Communism, Community Police Forces, Counterrevolution, Death, Drug Cartels, Drug Trafficking, Education, Free Nestora, Guerrero, Iguala, Nestora Salgado, Normalistas, Teachers | Leave a comment

Bishop Vera on the EZLN: “Their Proposal Is Peace”

Posted on 27/02/2014 by Ed Sykes

One of the latest representatives of the ‘progressive’ current of the Catholic Church, Raúl Vera López is the bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, and was involved in the peace process after the Zapatista Uprising of 1994. Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Capitalism, Catholic Church, Chiapas, Dirty War, Drug Trafficking, Economics, EZLN, Human Rights, Impunity, Indigenous Rights, Injustice, Justice, libertarian socialism, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Oppression, Paramilitaries, Peace, Peace Process, Politics, PRI, Proceso, Raúl Vera López, Repression, Samuel Ruiz García, State, Zapatista Uprising, Zapatistas | 4 Comments

MEXICO: Nestora Salgado’s Unjust Captivity

Posted on 26/02/2014 by Ed Sykes

With all the recent talk in Mexico about Michoacán’s self-defence groups (Autodefensas), it would be easy to forget that citizen self-defence forces have existed for a while now. For example, the Community Police (PC) in Guerrero came into being around … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Autodefensas, Capitalism, Community Police, Community Resistance, Drug Trafficking, Government, Guerrero, Mexico, Michoacán, Nestora Salgado, Olinalá, Organised Crime, PRI, Repression, Self-Defence, Unfair Imprisonment | 3 Comments

MEXICO: Capture of “El Chapo” Changes Very Little

Posted on 25/02/2014 by Ed Sykes

Having escaped from prison in 2001, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was captured on Saturday in Mazatlán, Mexico by a joint Mexican-US operation. By using “bribes, safe houses and an army of cartel helpers”, the most important drug lord in Mexico … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Autodefensas, Drug Trafficking, El Chapo, Jalisco, Joaquín Guzmán, Mexico, Michoacán, Organised Crime, Peña Nieto, Sinaloa Cartel | Leave a comment

“Raise your voice” to end the fighting in Michoacán

Posted on 27/01/2014 by Ed Sykes

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, January 23, 2014 The civil society organisation Las Abejas of Acteal [a pacifist group from Chiapas fighting alongside the Zapatistas for justice and against neoliberalism since 1992] called on people to raise their voices … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Acteal, Autodefensas, Bourgeois Democracy, Capitalism, Cartels, Chiapas, Corruption, Drug Trafficking, Drug Wars, EZLN, Government Collusion, Impunity, Justice, Las Abejas, Mexico, Michoacán, Neoliberalism, Politics, Violence, War | Leave a comment

MEXICO: New Year News from Mexico’s Drug Cartels

Posted on 21/01/2014 by Ed Sykes

As an overview of Mexican politics, and an explanation for why the Zapatistas continue to build their own political structures outside of the control of the Mexican state and the civilians have organised themselves into community police forces (autodefensas), here … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Corruption, Crime, Drug Cartels, Drug Trafficking, Ineffective Government, Mexico, War on Drugs | 2 Comments

MEXICO: Army Attacks Autodefensas (13-01-14)

Posted on 14/01/2014 by Ed Sykes

When people take politics into their own hands, bourgeois governments get scared. They begin to call dignified, independent citizens terrorists or troublemakers. It is in these moments that the dictatorial face of systems normally referred to as ‘democracies’ begins to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Army, Autodefensas, Drug Cartels, Drug Trafficking, Massacre, Mexico, Michoacán, Murder, Oppression, Self-Defence, Violence, War | 1 Comment