Public Demand Grows For President Bush To Reveal Details of Plan Mexico
Bush is trying to rush Plan Mexico through Congress without making details public, while evidence indicates that the Plan will lead to serious human rights abuses.
El Enemigo Común
Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
El Enemigo Común
Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
Rights Concerns Cloud Regional Anti-Drug Plan
by Charles Davis WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (IPS) – A 1.4-billion-dollar U.S. aid package to Mexico and Central American states aimed at combating drug trafficking and organised crime could backfire, the chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said in…
Friends of Brad Will Launch Intervention at Congressional Hearing on Plan Mexico
[ Friends of Brad Will at Congressional hearing ] The House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting is met by protests. November 16th, 2007 – NYC Indymedia Congressional Reporter writes: At the November 14th U.S. Congressional hearing on the Merida Initiative…
Friends of murdered journalist demand hold on military aid pending investigation into his murder
No $ To Mexico Until Accountability on Human Rights! November 14, 2007 – Friends of Brad Will write: The Friends of Brad Will, a network of friends and associates of Brad Will, the U.S. journalist, have urged Foreign Affairs Committee…
United Steel Works (USW) Opposes $500 Million ‘Plan Mexico’
Human and Labor Rights Must Be Protected before Mexican Government Given Blank Check to Allegedly Fight Drug War November 13th, 2007: PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–News from USW: The United Steelworkers union announced today that it opposes handing Mexico what amounts to a…
Washington, DC Advocacy Trip a Success for Friends of Brad Will!
Planning to Stop ‘Plan Mexico’ November 8th, 2007 – Friends of Brad Will write: While Friends of Brad Will joined Brad’s family in D.C. to lobby for justice for his murder and for other people murdered in Oaxaca, Atenco and…
Remembering Brad
October 16th, 2007 – Daniel McGowan writes: On October 27, 2006, my friend, fellow activist, and independent journalist Brad Will was murdered by paramilitaries (as well as off duty police) while documenting protests and riots in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was…
Xanica Resists
October 30th, 2007 – CODEDI writes: With the imposition of Sergio García Cruz over the town of Santiago Xanica, our community has lived in a state of total ungovernability, withstanding injustices, lies, and manipulation. Only days before assuming the Presidency,…
Brad Will shot at close range, says investigation
Brandon Jourdan comments, “As a close friend of Brad Will and someone who has looked through Will’s full-resolution raw footage, I am very upset by the attorney general’s office report. The evidence is overwhelmingly against the close range theory. The…