The Venezuelan sky is not falling the Western Hemisphere will survive. It is funny how so many people are gullible into buying into the corporate media’s yellow journalism. Yes, it is true that Venezuela’s National Assembly passed a law that would allow President Hugo Chávez to issue executive orders over some key areas of public [...]
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Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) official Fructuoso Pedro Garcia was shot with nine bullets in the main square of Santo Domingo Morelos in Oaxaca Mexico- 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, police [...]
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In a surprising midnight ceremony at the presidential residence of Los Pinos, outgoing Mexican President Vicente Fox handed over the green, white and red presidential sash to incoming president elect Felipe Calderón. 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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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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I have been meaning to write this, but, once again Blogger was not cooperating.
On October 27, 2006 Indymedia journalist and videoblogger Brad Will was the killed while covering the teacher’s strike in Oaxaca. He was known to have supported the protesters and their cause New York City Independent Media Center reported that Will was shot [...]
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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.
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