Put forth by XicanoPwr
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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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 [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jul
30
It is not a surprise that the Bush administration has been chagrining by the Latin American New Left. The electoral results throughout South America have not been going Dudya’s way, the countries being governed by new left-leaning presidents are: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Chile. And when it comes to attacking unbacked leaders, the US [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jul
07
After Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) vote count, the IFE declared Felipe Calder�n the top vote-getter in what is seen as the tightest presidential election in Mexico’s history.
Final Count:
Felipe Calder�n: 35.88%
Andres Manuel López Obrador: 35.31%
Difference/Diferencia - 0.57 pts
What seemed to be a López Obrador victory on July 5, was nothing but an illusion. During [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jul
03
PAN’s Felipe Calderon declared victory in a bitterly contested election over as official returns show him ahead of Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), 36% to 35% with 96% of the votes counted.
But like a thief in the night, what seemed like a win for López Obrador, turned out to be just a dream. At 11:20PM [...]
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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.
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