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Sep
15
Last Monday, after being in hiatus for a couple of months, the People’s Revolutionary Army, or EPR, once again struck Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). And once again, the attack on Mexico’s state-owned oil installations disrupted gas supplies, which caused the latest spike in oil and gas prices. Economically, Pemex and thousands of [...]
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Jul
10
A Mexican leftist group, El Ejército Popular Revolucionario (EPR – Popular Revolutionary Army), is claiming responsibility for for a series of explosions that occurred this week and last week on Mexico’s owned natural-gas pipelines, PEMEX, according to La Jornada. Pemex is the third-largest oil supplier to the US. EPR issued a statement to the national [...]
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Dec
01
In a surprising midnight ceremony at the presidential residence of Los Pinos, outgoing Mexican [tag]President Vicente Fox[/tag] handed over the green, white and red presidential sash to incoming president elect [tag]Felipe Calderón[/tag]. Fearing that the inauguration would be blocked, Calderón – a 44- year-old conservative, pro-business politician who is close to the Catholic Church – [...]
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Nov
20
Although it was determined by Mexico’s top election court that Mexico’s ruling party conservative Felipe Calderón won the July 2 election, tens of thousands of loyal supporters still crammed into Mexico City’s Zocalo square to see Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) take the oath of office as Mexico’s “Legitimate President.” November 20, also marks the [...]
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Sep
15
Protesters are claim another symbolic victory as President Vicente Fox changes site of the annual Mexican Independence day grito. President Vicente Fox sidestepped another showdown with leftist firebrand Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, announcing Thursday that he won’t hold tonight’s traditional Independence Day celebrations in Mexico City’s massive central plaza. The first symbolic victory occurred when [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
