Oaxaca

Pilar's Oaxacan salad

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Pilar Cabrera serves this at La Olla restaurant in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was in Toronto in September promoting Mexican food.

Court blames Mexican governor for protest abuses

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009

OAXACA, Mexico -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the governor of a southern Mexican state is responsible for rights abuses during 2006 protests that paralyzed a colonial city and left least a dozen people dead.

Aura Silver Resources Inc.: Aura Silver Announces Commencement of Phase II Drilling: New Interpretation Leads to Greatly Enhanced Prospectivity Along 6 km of Silver-Gold Trend

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Aura Silver Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: AUU)("Aura Silver" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company and its joint venture partner Intrepid Mines Limited have approved a 2,500 meter Phase II drilling program for the Taviche property in Oaxaca, Mexico. Phase II drilling will test targets along the extent of the Higo Blanco trend including...

Trading Post (buy 'em small, buy 'em all edition)

inca kola news (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

Who needs analysis anyway? Just buy a bunch of pennystocks and watch them all fly. ATAC Resources (ATC.v) up 29.8% at $0.74 on a good step-out drill result from up there in Yukon. Dia Bras (DIB.v) up 20% at $0.18. We very likey. Radius Gold (RDU.v) up 2.4% at $0.21 on news that it's optioning out one of its landholdings, an Oaxaca ( South Mexico ) silver property, to fellow Ridgway stock FVI.v ( up...

Why We Migrate: Stories of Mexico's Displaced

Witness for Peace (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009

Meet Paola Gutierrez Galindo, a community organizer from Oaxaca, Mexico. Since the passage of NAFTA, Paola has watched person after person, including 90% of her own family, abandon her community to migrate north. Throughout October, Paola will crisscross the Mid-Atlantic on a speaker tour to unearth the hidden roots of migration.

Redzone Resources Ltd.: Redzone to Acquire Interest in Las Palmas Property in Mexico

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Redzone Resources Limited (CNSX: REZ) ("Redzone") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement (the "Agreement") with Minera Teck, S.A. de C.V. ("Teck"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Teck Resources Limited (TSX:TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) to acquire an initial 50% interest in the Las Palmas property located in Mexico's...

Aura Silver Resources Inc.: Aura Silver Resources Inc.: Mineral Intercepts at Second Target Zone Confirm Potential for Large Scale Silver Mineralization

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Aura Silver Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: AUU) ("Aura Silver" or the "Company") is pleased to report results of the latest assays from its Taviche JV Project, Oaxaca, Mexico (with Intrepid Mines; TSX:IAU). Holes HBAD06-09 to HBAD08-09 were designed to test the Santo Nino target on the Alma Delia Concession located 800 meters to the southeast of the reported...

Protests in Mexico after Oaxaca teacher killed

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009

Protest barricades returned to the streets of this southern Mexico city Friday after a teacher was killed and two other people were wounded during an apparent clash between rival unions in another part of the state.

• Protests in Mexico after Oaxaca teacher killed - kansascity.com
• Protests in Mexico after Oaxaca teacher killed - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Three Amigos Summit : Protecting corporations from the people

Creekside (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009

In his Counterpunch article Three Amigos Summit : Sleepwalking Through the Minefield , author John Ross relates a story not covered up here : Mexican government use of ex-RCMP to pin the murder of a US journalist by Mexican authorities on a Oaxaca social activist. After American journalist Brad Will was gunned down while filming a violent clash between government and anti-government forces in 2006...

NAFTA, Murder, Human Rights Abuses, Police Coverups: Oaxaca Atrocities

From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009

But one question remains – why all these reports stating how the Mexican state is not at fault for the atrocities of 2006 in Oaxaca? The answer can be found in Plan Mexico, aka the Merida Initiative. The three-year, $1.4 billion aid (mostly military) package to Mexico and Central America has a human rights requirement [...]

Aura Silver Resources Inc.: Aura Silver Initiates Drilling of Silver/Gold Targets Across Extensive Jasperoid Zone at Higo Blanco Project, Mexico

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Aura Silver Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: AUU) ("Aura Silver" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that a 1,500 meter drilling program has been initiated on the Higo Blanco jasperoid complex in Oaxaca, Mexico. The exploration program conducted by the Aura Silver/Intrepid Mines joint venture ("Taviche JV") over the past year has prepared...

Fresno Journal: Voice That Sounds Like Home Welcomes Mexico’s Outsiders

New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009

“La Hora Mixteca,” which translates to “The Mixtec Hour,” broadcasts from Fresno, Calif., in Spanish and Mixteco, an indigenous language from Oaxaca, Mexico.

Fortuna Provides San Jose Project Update

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- 05/25/09 -- Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (TSX VENTURE: FVI)(BVLAC: FVI) is pleased to provide an update on its 100% owned San Jose silver-gold project in Oaxaca, Mexico. The road blockade reported in a Company ..

A critical patient, an overwhelmed hospital and a tenacious newspaper

L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009

In Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest areas, the Despertar daily sniffed out the crisis, forcing doctors to announce, a week before emergency was declared, that they faced a deadly 'atypical pneumonia.' It was Easter weekend when people in Oaxaca noticed strange happenings at the state-run Dr. Aurelio Valdivieso General Hospital. Sections were suddenly off-limits. Security guards were added.

Family of Mexico's first fatality grapples with infamy

L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009

Adela Gutierrez of Oaxaca is the first person known to have died of the swine flu strain in Mexico. Her family says they are being shunned by the community. By the time she reached the hospital, Adela Gutierrez was gasping for breath, the tips of her fingers blue.