La Lucha Sigue: EPR Strikes Again

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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 [...]

Protestors Shut Down World’s Busiest Border Crossing

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California Highway Patrol in riot gear have shut down all southbound traffic lanes at San Ysidro, CA (h/t to Erwin C at The Latin Americanist). Hundreds of Mexican teachers are blocking the world’s busiest border crossing. Members of a teachers union demonstrating against changes in Mexico’s pension system briefly blocked holiday weekend traffic Friday through [...]

The Natives Are Restless: Another Attack on Mexico’s Natural Gas Pipeline

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The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) is claiming responsibility for another series of explosions that went off today on Mexico’s natural gas pipeline. This time around the attack caused national and international corporations were shut down in Mexico and many of these corporations will be facing millions of dollars in losses, according to CNNMoney.

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The Natives Are Getting Restless Down In Mexico

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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 and [...]

Blood in the dust: Border Patrol agent guns down immigrant…

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Warning; Viewer Discretion Advised. Graphic images may be disturbing to some viewers. The surveillance video obtained by the Union-Tribune does show the actual footage of the shooting from the surveillance video that was leaked of the deadly shooting of Ramiro Gamez Acosta, an immigrant, by a Border Patrol agent. Acosta, 20, was blasted in [...]

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