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Did he film his own murder?
Rating: NNNNNOaxaca - Canadian tourists aiming for a quick sun fix have recently become painfully aware of the risks and lack of judicial recourse in... -
WTO’s big show
Rating: NNNNNCancún, quintana roo - with 50 international forums on subjects ranging from alternative media to fishing to Iraq, a visit by the Greenpeace Rainbow... -
Low blow
peace by peace -- March 8, International Women's Day peace rally 11 am, march 1 pm. OISE, 252 Bloor West. 416-963-4420. -- March 10, Artists... -
Bus to babylon
Rating: NNNNNBaghdad -- the Syrian-Iraqi border after midnight is a dimly lit no man's land. We sit in a smoke-filled café on the Syrian side... -
Maquila Meltdown
Rating: NNNNNMexico City -- up on Tijuana's Otay Mesa, the crown jewel of the Mexican maquiladora industry and one of the beacons of the globalized... -
Out of Sight
Rating: NNNNNsan cristobal de las casas, Mexico -- It is nearing a year now since Subcomandante Marcos, the silver-tongued spokesperson of the Zapatista Army of... -
Nasty Niblets
Rating: NNNNNcalpulapan, oaxaca -- as indianfarmers in the remote Sierra del Norte of Oaxaca prepare the earth for the spring corn planting, they regard the... -
Coke Takes Sugar Punch
Rating: NNNNNmexico city -- if "frijoles" (beans) are Mexican caviar, then Coca-Cola is the champagne of the poor. Poorer Mexicans quaff inordinate quantities of the... -
Defeat On Indian Bill
Rating: NNNNNmexico city -- the two men glareat each other across the long oak table in the Mexican Senate. There's no love lost between them.... -
Mayans guard medicines
Rating: NNNNNsan cristobal de las casas -- aPukuj ("devil") is haunting the Tzotzil Indian highlands of Chiapas. He is, however, a very unlikely devil --... -
Rebel Silence
Rating: NNNNNmichoacan, chiapas -- over sixweeks after the Mexican Congress gutted the Indian Rights law for which the rebel Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)... -
Mexico’s Water Crisis
Rating: NNNNNmexico city -- it sounds like science fiction, but this parched, land-locked megalopolis, home to a fifth of the nation's populace, was once an... -
Star No-Show Zapatista Chief Skips Congress
Rating: NNNNNmexico city -- the ski-maskedMayan rebels of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) were about to address Congress last Wednesday (March 28) from... -
He Gets His Way
Rating: NNNNNmexico city (march 26) -- the 24leaders of the EZLN's general command currently encamped in Mexico City have been embroiled in a high-stakes chess... -
Marcos’s city triumph
Rating: NNNNNmexico city, march 12 -- when rebel martyr Emiliano Zapata and his ragtag campesino army marched into Mexico City in December 1914 at the height...
