US alcohol corporations have largely coopted this holiday, marketing it as an occasion to party, not to celebrate an anti-imperialist victory, much less motivate the Chicano people’s ongoing struggle against racism and national oppression.
April 21st marks the 112th anniversary of the popular defense of the Port of Veracruz against US occupation.
More than six decades later, recently released CIA documents related to the JFK assassination conjure a scene that does not fit within the rhetoric of sovereignty.
“I believe that all the problems facing our revolution, the vital problems, those that transcend the national peculiarities of each country, encompass the entire American continent.” A 1959 interview with Che Guevara.
Two decades since 65 miners lost their lives, families continue to demand justice. Not all the bodies have been recovered, nor has Grupo México been fully held accountable.
US imperial intrusion into Mexico has another side: US citizens in Mexico contesting imperialism and constructing revolutionary change.
Part of Mexico’s 1938 oil nationalization was paid for with the sweat of the Cuban people, and in 1961, a headline appeared in the Mexican newspaper Hoja Revolucionaria: “Not sending oil to Cuba is betraying the oil expropriation.”
Fidel Castro said that Mella, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Cuba who worked in Mexico, was the one who did the most in the least amount of time.
The Workers Party, originating in Mexico’s Maoist movement and a long-time ally of AMLO since his 2006 Presidential campaign, was founded on December 8, 1990.
On December 2, 1974 the rural teacher, guerrilla & founder of Mexico’s Party of the Poor died during a confrontation with the Mexican military in a coffee-growing jungle of El Otatal.