Protesters mark Cuban revolution anniversary outside US Embassy in Mexico
More than 1,000 people convened in front of the US Embassy in Mexico on Tuesday to mark the 52nd anniversary of the start of the Cuban revolution.
Chanting “Viva Fidel” and braving heavy rain, demonstrators marched down Reform Avenue and erected a makeshift stage in front of the US embassy.
Police blocked traffic for over an hour as demonstrators took turns delivering speeches denouncing a decades-old embargo placed by the United States on Cuba.
On July 26, 1953, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro started an armed uprising in the eastern city of Santiago. After more than five years of struggle, he led the revolution to its final triumphon New Year’s Day, 1959.
Mexico has been the only country in Latin America to maintain ties with Havana after the Cuban revolution. But relations between the two countries became rocky after President Vicente Fox took office in 2000. Enditem
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MEXICO CITY – Leaders of a movement fighting to win compensation for former "bracero" migrant workers on Friday asked the U.S. Embassy to help in winning the release of those jailed in a protest this week.
In a handwritten note presented to the Embassy here, Braceroproa group leader Ventura Gutierrez said he was being held "for political reasons" and said that if transferred to prison, "I fear for my physical security."
Gutierrez was among 10 people arrested on Wednesday when windows were broken during a protest at the federal Interior Department, which is overseeing a newly created fund to compensate
Students, unions mark '68 Mexico massacre
Thousands of students and union activists marched through downtown Mexico City on Sunday to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1968 massacre of student protesters.
This year's commemorative march comes after a judge in September refused to issue arrest warrants for former president Luis Echeverria and other former officials, ruling that the statute of limitations had run out on the crimes.
The leftist Mayor of Mexico City, Alejandro Encinas, held a ceremony in Tlatelolco Plaza, the city square where it occurred, to honor the dead.
"We must create a climate of vengeance, but we must find out the
Cuban Educational Program a Success in Mexico
Over 266,000 Mexicans have been taught to read and write using the Cuban method "Yo si puedo"(Yes, I can), which is currently being implemented in 10 municipalities of that country.
According to Granma newspaper, some 10,500 young voluntary twelfth graders under the supervision of Cuban professors give the classes.
On a visit to Cuba, at the beginning of 2005, the governor of Michoacan, Lazaro Cardenas, praised the Cuban methodology, which has already eliminated illiteracy in some regions.
Thanks to the 3-year-old "Yo si puedo" project, more than one million people were taught to read and
Anti-US protest blocks hotel in Mexico City
Protesters waving Cuban flags blocked the entrance to a US-owned Sheraton hotel in Mexico City yesterday, calling for it to be closed because it evicted Cuban officials on orders from Washington.
About 30 people shouted "Yankees out" as they demonstrated outside the hotel over its eviction of the 16 Cubans who were staying there last week for a conference with US energy companies.
Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said Mexico was looking into the evictions and would apply the full force of the law against the Sheraton if a crime had been committed.
"It
Mexico-US row over Cuban eviction
The authorities in Mexico say a US-owned hotel in Mexico City may have broken the law by expelling a group of Cuban officials.
The delegation was ordered out of the Hotel Maria Isabel Sheraton last week at the behest of Washington, because of the US embargo against Cuba.
Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said the US law could not be applied in a third country. Some 30 people held an anti-US rally outside the hotel.
The Cuban government said the incident showed US policy had been affecting other countries.
The Cuban officials were due to meet
Protesters set up barricades in Mexico City
Thousands of protesters set up barricades along Mexico Citys central thoroughfare Sunday night hours after the largest demonstration in Mexicos history filled the main square in support of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors election challenge.
Police made no effort to intervene as the protesters set up tents and blocked traffic, apparently in response to Lopez Obradors call for the establishment of 47 permanent assemblies to press his claims of fraud in the July 2 elections. Lopez Obrador lost the vote to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 1 percent of 41 million ballots cast.
Mexico-Cuba Boost Parliament Diplomacy
Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 19 (Prensa Latina) The 8th Meeting of Legislators of Cuba and Mexico agreed to beef up parliamentary diplomacy here in this industrial city.
The Chamber of Deputies VP, Francisco Arroyo, said it must go further that governments and reach levels of "friendship and solidarity," with strong currents of non-intervention and self-determination.
After more than 100 years of diplomatic relations,chief of the Cuban delegation Ramón Pez Ferro said his group is moved by a spirit of cooperation and respect of sovereignty and the right of people to select the political, economic and social system they wish.
The Cuban
Mexico: 1 killed, 2 abducted in attack
Chaos engulfed the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca on Tuesday as gunmen killed one man in an attack on protesters, who seized broadcasting stations and sealed off the city with burning barricades.
Hospital sources said one man died of gunshot wounds. Protesters supporting the three-month-old strike by local schoolteachers said two others had been abducted by the attackers.
Federal authorities claimed the gunmen were deployed by the state Governor Ulises Ruiz in a bid to dislodge the protesters from a state-run radio building they seized on August 1. The governor, however, denied any responsibility.
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Cuba and Mexico Boost Parliamentary Diplomacy
The 8th Meeting of Legislators from Cuba and Mexico agreed to increase parliamentary diplomacy during a meeting in Monterrey, Mexico.
The Chamber of Deputies Vice President, Francisco Arroyo, said that both sides should increase its levels of "friendship and solidarity," with strong currents of non-intervention and self-determination.
After more than 100 years of diplomatic relations, the chief of the Cuban delegation Ramón Pez Ferro said his group is moved by a spirit of cooperation and respect of sovereignty and the right of people to select the political, economic and social system they wish.
The Cuban legislator ratified his
Cuban youth delegation continues visit to Mexico
A delegation of Cuban young people who travelled to Mexico to pay tribute to the founder of the Federation of University Students (FEU by its Spanish acronym) of the Island, Julio Antonio Mella, continues to develop an intense program of activities this Wednesday.
On the third day of their stay in Mexico, where Mella was murdered in 1929, the representatives of the FEU, the Young Communists League and the Federation of High School Students will hold a meeting with students from the Bauer College.
They will also make a tour on the historic center of
