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Mexico: State steps up pressure on autonomous Oaxaca groups

Mexico: State steps up pressure on autonomous Oaxaca groups

It appears that Alejandro Avilés, secretary general of Oaxaca State, Mexico, is once again trying to undermine autonomous indigenous organising in the region, as he rushed in troops to back up the new bully-boy president-elect of Santiago Xanica, Ricardo Luría. The latest crackdown, according to the Council of Autonomous Oaxacan Organizations (COOA), saw three convoys of the Mexican Army sent

Mexico: 50 anarchist groups “at war” with State and capital

Mexico: 50 anarchist groups “at war” with State and capital

This translated article by investigative magazine Contralinea, originally submitted to US anarchist site It’s Going Down, looks at the rise of insurrectionist anarchism in Mexico over the last few years. All footnotes by the translator. In Mexico there is an ongoing anarchist insurrection with 50 groups and cells at war with the State and capital. The seriousness