Put forth by XicanoPwr
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 and [...]
Posted in Americas, López Obrador, Mexico, News/Noticias, Oaxaca | 
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Apr
25
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 [tag]Ramiro Gamez Acosta[/tag], an immigrant, by a [tag]Border Patrol[/tag] agent. Acosta, 20, was blasted in [...]
Posted in Censorship, Eliminationism, Google, Human Rights, Immigration, La Migra, Mexico, Nativism, Raza, YouTube | Tags: | functional 25 Comments »
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Feb
01
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 [tag]Venezuela[/tag]’s National Assembly passed a law that would allow President [tag]Hugo Chávez[/tag] to issue executive orders over some key areas of public [...]
Posted in Hugo Chávez, Mexico, Venezuela | Tags: | functional 4 Comments »
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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, police [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
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 [...]
Posted in Felipe Calderón, George Bush, López Obrador, Mexican Election, Mexico, Oaxaca, PAN, PRD, Vicente Fox | Tags: | functional 8 Comments »
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.
