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Chiapas

Type: Province

Name: Chiapas

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Israel and Mexico swap notes on abusing rights

Mexico has gone public about military coordination with Israel in Chiapas, home to the Zapatistas liberation movement.(Omar Torres / AFP/Newscom)Earlier this month, Jorge Luis Llaven Abarca, Mexico’s newly-appointed secretary of public security in Chiapas, ... [Published Electronic Intifada - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Mexico, Israel, Mexican Government

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Chiapas begins tuna exports to the US

Chiapas Governor led the first export of tuna to the US market from the facilities of the plant Specialized Food Processing (Procesa), in the Industrial Park of Puerto Chiapas.At the event, the allocation of more than MXN 150 million (USD 12.1 million) ... [Published Fish Information & Services - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Rodrigo Lopez, Government of Chiapas, Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneur

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

California REDD: A False Solution

Friends of the Earth is deeply devoted to curbing both deforestation and averting catastrophic climate change. Yet FoE’s international forests campaign has been actively engaged in opposing California’s pending adoption of a program known as REDD – Reducing ... [Published Friends of the Earth - May 21 2013]

Entities: Carbon, Deforestation, Emission, Climate

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Mexican border agents rescue 36 migrants

MEXICO CITY, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Mexican immigration agents on Sunday rescued 36 undocumented migrants who were held in the town of San Juan Chamula, in southern Chiapas state, for allegedly damaging some crops, the National Immigration Institute (INM) ... [Published Xinhua News Agency - May 19 2013]

Entities: San Cristobal (Mexico), San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexico), Immigration, Guerrero (Mexico), Tillage

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

India-to-U.S. human trafficking ring busted

A human trafficking ring headed by a "citizen of Indian origin" was exposed by authorities in the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil who said the gang sought to smuggle people from India and Sri Lanka into the U.S.Local reports on Thursday identified Navtej ... [Published The Hindu - May 17 2013]

Entities: Guayaquil, Human Trafficking, Immigration, Smuggling

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Chiapas: Conflict erupts in Venustiano Carranza, with two dead and several injured

On 5 May in Venustiano Carranza, there were seen confrontations between members of the campesino organizations Casa del Pueblo and the Emiliano Zapata Campesino Organization-Chiapas (OCEZ-Chiapas), resulting in several injured and two dead. According ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 18 2013]

Entities: Venustiano Carranza (Chiapas, Mexico), Emiliano Zapata, Jorge Luis

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Chiapas: Confrontation in Petalcingo leaves one dead

Photo @Contrapoder The Tila City Hall, located in northern Chiapas, has reported that one person died from gunshot wounds, with six others injured, in the Petalcingo ejido following a confrontation that occurred during the early morning of 5 May. ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 18 2013]

Entities: Institutional Revolutionary Party (MX), Tila (Mexico), Tilia, Green Ecological Party of Mexico (MX), Hostile Environment

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Chiapas: Call for Justice and the #Release of Patishtán, from 4 May to 19 June

From 4 May to 19 June, relatives of the prisoner Alberto Patishtán Gómez, the Movement of the People of El Bosque in Favor of the Release of Alberto Patishtán, and other organizations have organized a campaign called “For Justice and the #Release ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013]

Entities: Justicia, Tribunal, Tuxtla Gutierrez

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Chiapas: Enrique Peña Nieto’s visit creates conflict in Zinacantán

The residents of the Navenchuac community (Zinacantán municipality), where President Enrique Peña Nieto led an act on 19 April for the so-called Crusade Against Hunger, recalled the municipal agent Antonio Pérez Gómez by means of popular assembly, ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013]

Entities: Zinacantan (Mexico), Enrique Peña Nieto, Navenchauc (Mexico), Antonio Perez, Ten Thousand (Greek)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Late Rev. Matty of St. Patrick's Cathedral to receive award for bravery

Reporter María Cortés González The late Rev. Richard "Rick" Matty will be given a posthumous award for heroism and bravery today at his undergraduate school, John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.Matty, who was rector of St. Patrick Cathedral, ... [Published El Paso Times - May 17 2013]

Entities: Edmund Campion, El Paso (Texas, United States), John Carroll University, John Carroll

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Fashionable fiesta at Asheville's rescheduled Cinco de Mayo

The wind-whipped flats of the WNC Agricultural Center seemed to evoke the Mexican midlands last weekend as hundreds of people celebrated Cinco de Mayo, held a week late because of torrential rains the previous Sunday. Many men wore black cowboy hats emblazoned ... [Published Asheville Citizen-Times - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cinco de Mayo, Cowboy

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Girl, 7, escapes from trunk of abductor’s car

A 7-year-old girl ran slightly ahead of her mother on an afternoon stroll around Sacramento, Calif. in broad daylight. The family was returning from a shoe-shopping trip when a car screeched to a halt in front of the young girl.An unidentified man got ... [Published New York Daily News - May 15 2013]

Entities: Sacramento (California, United States), Nightmare, Mexico, Anxiety

Quotes

...His lawyer disputes the suggestion that it was an act. "He is very unwell. He has a serious heart condition, suffers from hypertension, problems with his prostate and problems in five of his vertebrae which make it difficult to remain seated for long periods of time. He legs are asleep constantly." Nevertheless, he insists his client is ready for the legal fight ahead

Rios Montt trial: Fight goes on [Published BBC - 20 hours ago]

...4 million) to strengthen the operational infrastructure and export tuna to the US market. "Today there are plenty of needs in this port, but we are willing to see it located in the place where it should historically be" stated the executive

Chiapas begins tuna exports to the US [Published Fish Information & Services - 22 hours ago]

...In their words - "We want to know if you're in favour or not, and if you are in favour we'd like to take your name and address to pass to the council."

Another CCTV camera for Forest Fields [Published UK Indymedia - May 21 2013]

"It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low-cost alternatives to supposedly ‘offset’ their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the ‘protection’ of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market-tradable ‘offset’ credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn ‘unexploited’ forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of ‘environmental services’ such as carbon sequestration, among others.”"

California REDD: A False Solution [Published Friends of the Earth - May 21 2013]

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Brigus Gold Reports Temporary Suspension of Mil... [Published Business Wire - 2 hours ago]
Israel and Mexico swap notes on abusing rights [Published Electronic Intifada - 10 hours ago]
Good reasons to visit Mexico's less-traveled de... [Published San Francisco Chronicle - 14 hours ago]
Telecable of Mexico could be sold to Megacable ... [Published NexTV Latam - 17 hours ago]
Rios Montt trial: Fight goes on [Published BBC - 20 hours ago]
Chiapas begins tuna exports to the US [Published Fish Information & Services - 22 hours ago]
Hope from the margins [Published Resilience - 23 hours ago]
Another CCTV camera for Forest Fields [Published UK Indymedia - May 21 2013]
Leeds No Borders public meeting [Published UK Indymedia - May 21 2013]
California REDD: A False Solution [Published Friends of the Earth - May 21 2013]
From Reactive to Proactive: The World Social Fo... [Published Global Research - May 21 2013]
Clear consequences [Published Friends of the Earth Canada - May 21 2013]
Off the beaten path [Published Taranaki Daily News - May 20 2013]
Sheffield Workfare Protest, June 1st [Published UK Indymedia - May 20 2013]
Mexican border agents rescue 36 migrants [Published Xinhua News Agency - May 19 2013]
Billionaire Carlos Slim's acquisitive foray mee... [Published Economic Times - May 19 2013]
Taste of Mexico restaurants tout authentic flavors [Published Los Angeles Times - May 18 2013]
Chiapas: Conflict erupts in Venustiano Carranza... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 18 2013]
Chiapas: Confrontation in Petalcingo leaves one... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 18 2013]
National: Second March for National Dignity [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013]
Chiapas: Call for Justice and the #Release of P... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013]
India-to-U.S. human trafficking ring busted [Published The Hindu - May 17 2013]
Chiapas: Enrique Peña Nieto’s visit creates con... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013]
Special film screenings in Marin County, May 17... [Published Marin Independent Journal - May 17 2013]
Late Rev. Matty of St. Patrick's Cathedral to r... [Published El Paso Times - May 17 2013]
Johanna Lawrenson: Organizing on the Run [Published Narco News Bulletin - May 17 2013]
On the crime beat in Mexico, danger lies in kno... [Published Fresno Bee - May 16 2013]
First Street School students show their pride [Published Lincoln News Messenger - May 16 2013]
A Few Words from a David Grefrath, who is curre... [Published San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - May 16 2013]
Fashionable fiesta at Asheville's rescheduled C... [Published Asheville Citizen-Times - May 16 2013]

Blogs

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Chiapas: Conflict erupts in Venustiano Carranza... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 18 2013] On 5 May in Venustiano Carranza, there were seen confrontations between members of the campesino organizations Casa del Pueblo and the Emiliano Zapata Campesino Organization-Chiapas (OCEZ-Chiapas), resulting in several injured and two dead. According ...
Chiapas: Confrontation in Petalcingo leaves one... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 18 2013] Photo @Contrapoder The Tila City Hall, located in northern Chiapas, has reported that one person died from gunshot wounds, with six others injured, in the Petalcingo ejido following a confrontation that occurred during the early morning of 5 May. ...
National: Second March for National Dignity [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013] On 10 May, Mother’s Day in Mexico, there was held a “Second March for National Dignity” in which participated Mexican and Central American mothers who are seeking out their disappeared daughters and sons in Mexico. The caravan was accompanied by ...
Chiapas: Call for Justice and the #Release of P... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013] From 4 May to 19 June, relatives of the prisoner Alberto Patishtán Gómez, the Movement of the People of El Bosque in Favor of the Release of Alberto Patishtán, and other organizations have organized a campaign called “For Justice and the #Release ...
Chiapas: Enrique Peña Nieto’s visit creates con... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013] The residents of the Navenchuac community (Zinacantán municipality), where President Enrique Peña Nieto led an act on 19 April for the so-called Crusade Against Hunger, recalled the municipal agent Antonio Pérez Gómez by means of popular assembly, ...

Press Releases

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Brigus Gold Reports Temporary Suspension of Mil... [Published Business Wire - 2 hours ago]
Fitch Downgrades Homex's Ratings to 'CCC'; Rati... [Published Business Wire - Apr 30 2013]
Brigus Gold Announces Q1 Earnings Release, Conf... [Published Business Wire - Apr 18 2013]
IGNIA lidera inversión de $104.4 millones de pe... [Published PR Newswire: Financial Services - Jan 29 2013]
IGNIA leads investment of MXN$ 104.4 million in... [Published PR Newswire: Consumer Products & Retail - Jan 29 2013]