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Jan
25
Democratic Revolution Party ([tag]PRD[/tag]) official Fructuoso Pedro Garcia was shot with nine bullets in the main square of Santo Domingo Morelos in [tag]Oaxaca[/tag] [tag]Mexico[/tag]- Houston Chronicle Gunmen shot dead a local leader of Mexico’s largest leftist party in the southern state of Oaxaca where at least nine people were killed in political violence last year, [...]
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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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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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Sep
08
�Pobre M�xico! Tan lejos de Dios, y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos. (Poor Mexico! So far from God, and so close to the United States.) – General Porfirio Di�az, President of Mexico, 1877-1911 It seems Mexico has been hit by the Orwellian PAN rules – some pigs are more equal than others. In its [...]
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Sep
05
Update: Fecal won. Tomorrow is the day that Today the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) will finally officially name Felipe Calderón president-elect. Honestly, it is not surprising, last week TEPJF had ruled that Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had failed to prove that the irregularities in many of the polling places did not [...]
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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.
