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Military Corridos Emerge in Mexico Amidst Narco-Music Controversy
MEXICO CITY -- At a Mexican military installation, Captain Eduardo Barrón tr...
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News FlashMeet the Mexican soldier trying to revamp a musical genre accused of glorifying cartelsMilitary Corridos Emerge in Mexico Amidst Narco-Music Controversy MEXICO CITY — At a Mexican military installation, Captain Eduardo Barrón trades his rifle for a microphone to perform, backed by a dozen uniformed soldiers wielding trumpets and accordions. Barrón is part of a movement creating military corridos, a style of Mexican music aimed at countering the […]
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Scott Campbell

New translation up on @igd_news of a powerful collective letter responding to the discovery of an extermination camp in Teuchitlán, Jalisco:

"We have seen how the blood that runs through the country and the bones that are hidden under the earth multiply due to a violence – both state and non-state – that does not cease. Meanwhile, the criminal structures inside and outside of the State are strengthened, under the cover of a politics of silence and structural, systemic, and routine impunity that only justifies more war, more death, and more pain."

itsgoingdown.org/mexico-is-teu

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It's Going Down · Because all of Mexico is TeuchitlánThe following collective letter comes in response to the discovery in early March by searching families of a forced recruitment and extermination camp in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, near Guadalajara. It was translated by Scott Campbell. To those who are not indifferent to the war: The discovery of the exploitation, torture, and extermination camp in Teuchitlán, Jalisco,...
#Mexico#Jalisco#Teuchitlán
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Scott Campbell

"Ten days after the disappearance of Édgar Axel Ríos Urzúa, a student at the Polytechnic School of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), hundreds of young people, mothers and collectives demonstrated this Sunday, April 6, in downtown Guadalajara to demand that he be found alive.

"During the demonstration, students from different campuses of the UdeG placed banners with phrases such as 'Where are they?' and 'It was the State', in addition to black bags simulating bloody bodies, in a symbolic action that sought to make visible the seriousness of enforced disappearances in Jalisco.

"Since 2014, 26 people belonging to the University of Guadalajara community have been disappeared."

somoselmedio.com/estudiantes-d

#Mexico#Jalisco#Guadalajara
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Yogthos

A great read on the experience in implementing open-source software in the Mexican government. Despite challenges, Federico González Waite successfully led projects to switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL and implemented an electronic passport system using open-source software. He also emphasized the importance of education and building up talent within the government to support open-source software.

lwn.net/Articles/1013776/

lwn.netLessons from open source in the Mexican government [LWN.net]
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Scott Campbell

"The whole town came out for the next protest. In addition to blocking the highway between Papantla and Poza Rica, they shut down over 2,000 oil wells in the municipality, published press releases and posted to social media. They filed lawsuits against various government institutions. After three months of continuous leakage, their pressure campaign led to state action. The hard-won mandated cleanup of contaminated sites was a first for the region."

ojala.mx/en/ojala-en/life-or-p

OjaláHow the Totonac people are uniting against Mexico’s state oil company — OjaláA community campaign forced the government to clean up a pipeline leak and inspired others impacted by pollution to organize.
#Mexico#Veracruz
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Scott Campbell

"Las demandas siguen siendo las mismas: un alto a la represión ejercida desde la rectoría —a través de grupos de choque, como los porros, presentes en distintas facultades—, la eliminación de cuotas en posgrados, el respeto al derecho a la protesta sin represalias, mayor seguridad y la democratización de la universidad."

piedepagina.mx/la-unam-busca-d

Pie de Página · La UNAM busca desmovilizar a estudiantes, pero las protestas siguen - Pie de PáginaAnte el aumento de protestas, las autoridades de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México reformó su reglamento para criminalizar las manifestaciones de estudiantes organizados, un hecho que no sucedía desde 1945
#México#CDMX#UNAM
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Todd Crawshaw

Welcome to the new listeners from #peru & #mexico this week. Mastodon is a fantastic way to connect with bright #jazz fans

Fuse 'n Flow jazz radio on bigeradio.com (11am Alberta, 1pm ET, 6pm UK, 7pm Germany, 8pm Ukraine)

Playlist Apr 6 2025
00 James Clarke - Dominetta (Bed Track)
01 Jasmine Myra – Horizons
02 Brett Hansen - Perfect Intentions (Confluence 2024)
03 Eliane Amherd – Cornalin
04 Rubim de Toledo - Rhythm Chante (feat Karimah)
05 J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding - It's Alright With Me
06 The Dick Morrissey Quartet - Storm Warning
07 Sarah Vaughan - Honeysuckle Rose (Live 1957)
08 Thelonious Monk - Let’s Cool One
09 Tevet Sela - Shabbaton (Live at the Rex, 2023)
10 Tevet Sela - Smoken Blues (Live at the Rex, 2023)
11 Valerie Lacombe Sextet – Farnsworth
12 Wes Montgomery - Full House
13 Louis Armstrong - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (1933)
14 Dr. Michael White - Louisian-I-A
15 Olympia Brass Band - Mardi Gras In New Orleans

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