Mexico

Voting ID’s for Mexicans Abroad

Before, most Mexican nationals who lived outside their country could not vote, because it was too hard to travel to Mexico to apply for the i.d. Rubén Tapia reports from Los Angeles that there are still doubts about the plan’s promotion.

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(Español) Nos dieron la razón, pero en el papel, en los hechos ¡ahí está la obra! (última)

(Español) “Acá en Sonora existe un pueblo yaqui milenario, que se resiste a morir… que sigue luchando para que nuestros hijos tengan la garantía de un territorio, como el que nos dejaron nuestros mayores”: Mario Luna.

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(Español) La lucha del pueblo yaqui por la defensa del agua continúa (primera)

(Español) La reducción del agua del Río Yaqui no ha sido casual. Cercanos a la presa de La Angostura está la Mina de Nacozari, señala Luna. Y río abajo, conectados a la presa de El Novillo, hay otros trasvases que llevan el agua a otras minas, sostiene el vocero del pueblo yaqui.

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(Español) Pide la ONU al gobierno de México liberar a Nestora Salgado

(Español) ‘‘Estuvimos trabajando más de dos años para demostrar a la ONU que Nestora Salgado está viviendo procesos injustos en un claro caso de criminalización de su liderazgo. México debe ahora liberarla inmediatamente’’, señaló Alejandra Gonza, integrante de la Clínica de Derechos Humanos en Seattle.

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Mexico Edition.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29. PROGRAM # 7707 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. By law, activists, journalists and human rights advocates who have been threatened may qualify to obtain political asylum in the United States, according to a specialist in the subject. When he met in Mexico City with academics and journalists, he reported that the Mexican […]

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Posted in Línea Abierta, Mexico, Politics |

(Español) #Ayotzinapa no se olvida y exige respuesta en NY

(Español) A propósito de lo cual, también nos preguntamos, ¿por qué el periodista de Milenio, Ciro Gómez Leyva no recurre a la misma “fuente” que le dio las conversaciones telefónicas entre Kate del Castillo y Sean Penn, para publicar esas grabaciones del Ejército Mexicano y de la policía de Iguala con la misma rapidez?

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Mexico Edition.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22. PROGRAM # 7702 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Three reservoirs and dozens of canals are illegally taking water from the Yaqui River. The river provided water for forests and crops cultivated by the Yaqui tribe. Today, it is being used by hydroelectric companies, mining companies, private ranches, and the Sonora state capital […]

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Posted in Línea Abierta, Mexico, Politics |

Oil, Violence and Refugees.

MONDAY, JANUARY 4. PROGRAM # 7688 12:00 PM PT Oil, Violence and Refugees. Activist Nestora Salgado, leader of community police in an indigenous town in the Mexican heartlands, begins a hunger strike in a maximum security prison in Mexico City protesting her detention, postponed a new hunger strike in anticipation of a critical court decision. […]

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Mexico Edition.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. PROGRAM # 7687 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. This year, like every year, advocates for Mumia Abu-Jamal are protesting, calling for his freedom. Abu-Jamal has been in prison for 34 years, and from the inside he produces a radio program, Live from Death Row. He is accused of killing a police officer […]

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San Quintin: New Union.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23. PROGRAM # 7680 12:00 PM PT San Quintin: New Union. Farm workers from San Quintín Valley in Northern Mexico recently organized an independent union to challenge contracts held by official unions to de facto protect employers. This report provides recorded speeches from founding members and allies of the union during this landmark […]

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