Protests over the disappearance of 43 students spread from Iguala to Mexico City, calling for an accelerated government investigation and the demise of the President, Enrique Peña Neito. On September 26, students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos College at Ayotzinapa, Mexico traveled by bus to the nearby city of Iguala. There, Mayor José Luis Abarca’s … Continue reading
Indigenous communities in Latin America have suffered an especially oppressive history of dispossession and exploitation. Only the source of oppression has changed: if ‘indios’ were once enslaved to ‘latifundistas’, they are still today mistreated and kept from their own subsistence by multinational companies (MNCs). We have entered an era of ‘natural resource wars’, fueled by … Continue reading
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