Mexico

‘We’re not criminals,’ say protesting migrants trapped in Mexico by US
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‘We’re not criminals,’ say protesting migrants trapped in Mexico by US

Hundreds of migrants trapped in southern Mexico protested on Wednesday against the state’s immigration rules.
16 September 2021
School climate strikes called as heatwave hits
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School climate strikes called as heatwave hits

Youth Climate group Fridays for Future has announced a global climate strike on 24 September.
06 July 2021
Mexico City maintenance workers issued over a dozen warnings before metro disaster
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Mexico City maintenance workers issued over a dozen warnings before metro disaster

The horrific disaster on Mexico City’s metro railway system—with at least 24 people dead and dozens more seriously injured—was long in the making.
05 May 2021
A year since the first Covid-19 death, global rulers have failed to contain coronavirus
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A year since the first Covid-19 death, global rulers have failed to contain coronavirus

Monday marked one year since the first Covid-19 death in Wuhan, China.
12 January 2021
Mexico’s new left president already faces challenges
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Mexico’s new left president already faces challenges

For many of the tens of millions of Mexicans who live in grinding poverty Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador represents a hope for change
04 December 2018
Donald Trump tells soldiers to shoot migrants arriving at US’s south border
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Donald Trump tells soldiers to shoot migrants arriving at US’s south border

Racist US president Donald Trump has sent soldiers to the country’s southern border—threatening that they’ll shoot migrants from countries such as Honduras and El Salvador.
06 November 2018
Thousands of migrants march on US border
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Thousands of migrants march on US border

As many as 8,000 migrants from Honduras in Central America are marching on the US border.
22 October 2018
Massacre at the Mexico Olympics
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Massacre at the Mexico Olympics

Fifty years ago this month the Mexican state launched a brutal crackdown on protesting students. The result was carnage but not the end of resistance
21 October 2018
A victory for the left in Mexico’s election
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A victory for the left in Mexico’s election

Presidential elections have upset the rich—but it isn’t clear what changes will follow
02 July 2018
Frida Kahlo’s layers on show at V&A exhibition, but her politics are suppressed
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Frida Kahlo’s layers on show at V&A exhibition, but her politics are suppressed

Frida Kahlo’s carefully constructed private, public and professional identity is thoroughly unpicked in a new exhibition, Making Her Self Up.
19 June 2018
Left candidate leads polls ahead of Mexico election
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Left candidate leads polls ahead of Mexico election

Elections set to take place in Mexico on 1 July could deliver a left wing president in the shape of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
28 May 2018
Welcome to America: our vicious border controls just got nastier
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Welcome to America: our vicious border controls just got nastier

Border guards and immigration cops, boosted by Donald Trump's election, are sowing terror and wrecking lives in south western US states. Migrants and campaigners spoke to Alistair Farrow
11 April 2017
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Mexican teachers defy cops

Teachers are maintaining roadblocks in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in defiance of brutal state repression.
28 June 2016
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Mexican students' body found; millions of workers set strike in Italy; and coordinated strikes grip Belgian capital
09 December 2014
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Mexico protest for missing students

Mexico’s annual national Revolution Day parade was cancelled last week and replaced by mass protests demanding the return of 43 missing college students. President Enrique Pena Nieto made a highly defensive speech, as protesters across Mexico burned effigies and photos of him.
25 November 2014
Missing in Mexico
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Missing in Mexico

The kidnap of 43 students in Mexico exposes links between politicians, drugs and imperialism, writes Dave Sewell
11 November 2014
Protests intensify over ‘disappeared’ Mexican students
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Protests intensify over ‘disappeared’ Mexican students

Mexican students have called a three-day walkout to shut down the education sector from Wednesday of this week to demand the return of 43 “disappeared” students.
04 November 2014
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Mexican students call day of action

Student protesters are calling for action across Mexico on Wednesday of this week after the discovery of mass graves suspected to be of murdered student activists.
07 October 2014
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Crackdown on teachers’ camp in Mexico

Riot police attacked striking teachers in Zocalo, the central square of Mexico city, on Friday of last week.
17 September 2013
Artists and the Mexican Revolution
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Artists and the Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution in 1910 sparked an explosion of artistic creativity, writes Alex Smith
09 July 2013
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Eyewitness from Mexico: Revolt against flawed elections

For the second time in six years protests have erupted after an election result was seen as deeply flawed. The context is the ruling elites’ response to attempts to challenge them at the ballot box. The old ruling party, the PRI, controlled the Mexican presidency for 70 years.
17 July 2012
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Protests over Mexico elections

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Mexico City last Saturday, saying that the recent presidential election had been rigged.
10 July 2012
Mexico 1968: Massacre at the Olympic games
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Mexico 1968: Massacre at the Olympic games

The Mexico Olympics opened on Saturday 12 October 1968. I know the date because it was exactly a week after the 5 October civil rights march in Derry, generally accepted as the day the Troubles in Northern Ireland started.
22 May 2012
Rivera and Kahlo: the power, insight and sadness of art radicals
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Rivera and Kahlo: the power, insight and sadness of art radicals

"If art is not revolutionary, it is not art." So said Diego Rivera, one of the most important and radical Mexican artists. His life and art revolved around his politics.
19 July 2011