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Mexico: Abuses Against U.S. Bound Migrant Workers
by Kurt Birson
If not for the testimony of 18-year-old Ecuadorian migrant Freddy Lala, the August 26 massacre of 72 migrants in Tamaulipas may have remained out of the eye of the mainstream media and chalked up as another example of the violent turf war fought by Mexico's organized crime syndicates. However, the events point to another serious and common issue in Mexico, the chronic human rights violations of migrant workers as they pass through the country in transit to the United States. Every year, according to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), around 20,000 migrants are kidnapped or abused by gangs, cartels, and government authorities before they reach the United States. This dramatic increase in abuses, however, was predicted in 2001 when Mexico began to take a hard-line stance against immigration on its southern border.
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An FMLN Woman's Story of Courage and Conviction, 20 Years Later
by Lynn Stephen
In June 2009, Mauricio Funes took office as El Salvador's first leftist president. With more than 51% of the popular vote, Funes won the election as the candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the political party that was once a federation of guerrilla armies that fought the Salvadoran state to a bitter stalemate in the 1980s. María's Story, a documentary filmed 20 years before Funes's historic election, records a nationwide military and political offensive undertaken by the FMLN in late 1988 and 1989. The documentary continues to inspire audiences to discuss U.S. foreign policy, the reality of war, gender politics, and shared values of what constitutes justice and basic human rights.
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September/October - NACLA Report on the Americas
After Recognition: Indigenous Peoples Confront Capitalism
 Indigenous peoples across Latin America have taken a leading position in defending national sovereignty, democratic rights, and the environment. A renewed cycle of capitalist accumulation in the region centered on mining, hydrocarbon extraction, and agro-industrial monocultures has sparked the new round of indigenous resistance. Drawing on organizational and political legacies of previous decades, indigenous groups in the 1980s and 1990s grew and gained strength from an international arena in which governments were encouraged to recognize and promote cultural and minority rights. In this issue of the NACLA Report, we explore the contributions and creative possibilities of indigenous movements at a moment when indigenous politics has moved beyond this request for state recognition and inclusion.
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