Alive in Mexico
Alive in Mexico, sister show to Alive in Baghdad, will bring you a plethora of news about life in Mexico. We will cover everything from s...News
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20:13:53 12/01/07
Mexico's New Tolerance Zone - Part 2
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La zona de tolerancia que el gobernador de Tlaxcala, Enrique Ruiz Pe
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Mexico's New Tolerance Zone - Part 2
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La zona de tolerancia que el gobernador de Tlaxcala, Enrique Ruiz Pe?a propone, ha abierto la discusi?n alrededor del trabajo sexual y la prostituci?n.
Las trabajadoras sexuales hablan acerca de la discriminaci?n ante su trabajo y de c?mo por dedicarse a el son criticadas y muchas veces no son respetadas y son abusadas por la polic?a , los clientes y algunas veces incluso por sus familias, lo cual baja su autoestima permitiendo este tipo de violencia, pero al organizarse, y al tener apoyo psicol?gico, se han dado cuenta que su trabajo es como cualquier otro, el cual sirve para ganarse el dinero para su familia, y lo reivindican como un trabajo digno , por eso no hablan de prostituci?n sino de trabajo sexual, en los colectivos se organizan para que su trabajo sea menos dif?cil y peligroso y mas remunerativo, por que al estar solas en la calle los proxenetas las amenazan quit?ndoles la mayor?a del dinero que ganan sin ellos hacer nada, dejando de ser trabajadoras para ser explotadas sexualmente, por ello es la oposici?n a la zona de tolerancia por que vuelve a poner a las mujeres en las manos de los padrotes, que son la polic?a, los hoteleros, los restauranteros, los empresarios de las cerveceras, el gobernador as? como los empresarios nunca hablaron de trabajo sexual sino de legalizar la prostituci?n (que es ilegal en casi todo el pa?s) en una zona especifica para la diversi?n de los adultos y sabiendo que se mover?n cantidades importantes de dinero pues
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18:37:20 10/26/07
A New Red Light District for Mexico? - Part 1
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On October 5, the Forum of Analysis and Discussion about the Red Light District took place in the city of Apizaco, Tlaxcala. There sex workers, as well as members of human rights and labor organizations, in the fight against Sida, reaffirmed their stance against the government proposal to create a Red Light District in which prostitution would be legal. The said proposal, besides lacking public support, does not offer any opportunity to sex workers, but rather forces them to work for businessmen under the conditions that they stipulate. Apizaco, as a migrant city, has a population that is vulnerable to job shortage. It is here where many women are sexually exploited before being taken to the United States where pimps make a lot of money with them.
This video is the first of two parts where we will see from the stories told to AiM by organized sex workers and organizations that support them, the harsh reality in which the sex workers in Mexico survive.
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El pasado 5 de octubre se llevo a cabo el Foro de An?lisis y Discusi?n sobre la Zona de Tolerancia en la ciudad de Apizaco, Tlaxcala ah?, las trabajadoras y trabajadores sexuales as? como integrantes de organizaciones de derechos humanos, laborales y en la lucha contra el Sida, reafirmaron su postura en contra de la propuesta del gobierno de crear una Zona de Tolerancia en la cual la prostitucion seria legal, dicha propuesta adem?s de carente de apoyo ciudadano, no ofrece ninguna oportunidad a las trabajadoras sexuales, sino que las obliga a trabajar para empresarios bajo las condiciones que ellos estipulen, Apizaco como ciudad migratoria cuenta con una poblaci?n vulnerable por la falta de empleos, es aqu? donde muchas mujeres son explotadas sexualmente para luego ser llevadas a Estados Unidos donde padrotes ganan mucho dinero con ellas.
Este video es el primero de dos partes donde veremos, a partir de las historias que las trabajadoras sexuales organizadas y organizaciones que las apoyan contaron a AiM, la dura realidad en la que sobreviven las y los trabajadoras y trabajadores sexuales en M?xico.
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18:37:20 10/26/07
A New Red Light District for Mexico? - Part 1
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On October 5, the Forum of Analysis and Discussion about the Red Light District took place in the city of Apizaco, Tlaxcala. There sex workers, as well as members of human rights and labor organizations, in the fight against Sida, reaffirmed their stance against the government proposal to create a Red Light District in which prostitution would be legal. The said proposal, besides lacking public support, does not offer any opportunity to sex workers, but rather forces them to work for businessmen under the conditions that they stipulate. Apizaco, as a migrant city, has a population that is vulnerable to job shortage. It is here where many women are sexually exploited before being taken to the United States where pimps make a lot of money with them.This video is the first of two parts where we will see from the stories told to AiM by organized sex workers and organizations that support them, the harsh reality in which the sex workers in Mexico survive.**Espa
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20:42:26 10/07/07
Pasta de Conchos: Explotacion e inseguridad
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Las Familias de los mineros de Santa Rosita , Coahuila; tienen un plant?n en el DF donde demandan a la Secretaria del Trabajo, la b?squeda y rescate de los cuerpos de los 63 mineros que quedaron atrapados despu?s de una explosi?n dentro de una mina el 19 de febrero de 2006, conocida como la Mina Pasta de Conchos .
Las familiares argumentan que los due?os de la empresa Industrial Minera M?xico no cumplieron con las normas de seguridad en la mina y mantienen un entramado de corrupci?n con las autoridades laborales, lo que ha generado en un mayor riesgo de accidentes fatales a los trabajadores mineros que han costado vidas humanas.
Las labores de rescate est?n paradas desde hace meses por ?rdenes de la empresa y del gobierno , por lo cual los familiares de las victimas piensan que el extraer los cuerpos que est?n a poca distancia de ser rescatados dar?a certeza a sus afirmaciones , de que a los mineros los mato la irresponsabilidad y af?n de mayor lucro de la empresa y no un accidente inesperado.
La miner?a ha sido una dura contradicci?n para M?xico y pa?ses donde se explota, pues mientras a unos cuantos les genera ganancias multimillonarias a las legiones de trabajadores se les condena a una vida de salarios bajos y condiciones deplorables.
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20:42:26 10/07/07
Pasta de Conchos: Explotacion e inseguridad
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Las Familias de los mineros de Santa Rosita, Coahuila; tienen un plant
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15:24:51 09/28/07
Zapatistas Discuss Growing and Distributing Coffee
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Zapatistas Discuss Growing and Distributing Coffee
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[Editor’s note: English coming soon.]El caf
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19:12:33 09/22/07
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A School for Mexica [Aztec] Dance and Culture
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Mexican culture was born in 1325, 682 years ago, in what now is the center of the Federal District [Mexico City], where the city Tenochtitlan rose. This culture was oppressed with the arrival of the Spanish colonizers in 1521 , subdued and decimated by new European illnesses, military, and religious contrast.
In the Colony there were prohibitions against languages, constumes, dances , their form of dressing. Nonetheless the indigenous groups survived with these traditions in a clandestine manner.
With there drums prohibited, they played their music on mandolins, small guitars, in those rhythms, in these songs, their culture survived. Calpulli is the name they gave their schools, and the name today for groups that preserve knowledge of this culture.
Their language is Nahuatl, which emphasizes the poetry, the architecture, the mathematics, among other amazing things, like the building of a city of more than 100,000 people on a lake. Their
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19:12:33 09/22/07
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A School for Mexica [Aztec] Dance and Culture
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Mexican culture was born in 1325, 682 years ago, in what now is the center of the Federal District [Mexico City], where the city Tenochtitlan rose. This culture was oppressed with the arrival of the Spanish colonizers in 1521, subdued and decimated by new European illnesses, military, and religious contrast.In the Colony there were prohibitions against languages, constumes, dances, their form of dressing. Nonetheless the indigenous groups survived with these traditions in a clandestine manner.With there drums prohibited, they played their music on mandolins, small guitars, in those rhythms, in these songs, their culture survived. Calpulli is the name they gave their schools, and the name today for groups that preserve knowledge of this culture.Their language is Nahuatl, which emphasizes the poetry, the architecture, the mathematics, among other amazing things, like the building of a city of more than 100,000 people on a lake. Their “gods” have mythical legends like the greek, and these gods are the water, the wind, the fire and the land. The groups of dancers give tribute to this history, as do the groups studying Mexican culture, which have grown in the last century in Mexico, and throughout the world.—Espa
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23:13:58 09/14/07
The Annual LGBT Pride March in Mexico City
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For 29 years there has been a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered(LGBT) march in Mexico
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23:13:58 09/14/07
The Annual LGBT Pride March in Mexico City
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For 29 years there has been a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered(LGBT) march in Mexico’s capital city. This year the march’s theme was the growing problem of discrimination against LGBT people for their sexual preferences.This march grows each year, not only in the number of people but also in the infrastructure that they use, which includes dozens of mobile scenes where they exhibit their outfits.Various cities in the country have similar marches where, in a type of carnival, the LGBT groups have made their presence public in a society that commonly ignores them and discriminates against them.In this march they also encourage the use of methods to prevent sexually transmitted infections, and to promote their rights as an active sector in society.---Espa
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16:58:17 09/08/07
The Struggles of Mexico's Real del Monte Miners
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The town of Real del Monte is in the state of Hidalgo, very close to Mexico
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16:58:17 09/08/07
The Struggles of Mexico's Real del Monte Miners
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The town of Real del Monte is in the state of Hidalgo, very close to Mexico’s capital, Mexico City. For more than 500 years mines for gold, silver and other minerals have operated there. Now they are all closed.The former miners have organized to reclaim their rights for a dignified retirement and medical care. The work in the mines caused many illnesses, and only a few miners have medical insurance or benefits.This town has a long history, including the first strike in America in 1766. This town also produced one of the organizers of the strike of the Cananea movement, a precursor to the Mexican revolution. In addition, there one of the largest fortunes in the country was amassed, like that of Romero de Terreros who became the richest man in America in the 18th century. Finally, the continent’s first soccer team plays in Real.---Espa
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17:12:52 08/31/07
Zapatistas Practice Herbal Medicine
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[Editor's Note: This week the English blog was assembeled by Brian Conley and the Spanish by Armando Gomez.]
In Chiapas, medical aid and assistance is difficult to find. As we reported some months back, indigenous Mayan
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17:12:52 08/31/07
Zapatistas Practice Herbal Medicine
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[Editor's Note: This week the English blog was assembeled by Brian Conley and the Spanish by Armando Gomez.] In Chiapas, medical aid and assistance is difficult to find. As we reported some months back, indigenous Mayan “Health Promoters” in Chiapas have begun teaching their communities about basic nutrition and hygeine, as well as providing some medical services.The have also begun renewing the traditions of their ancestors by using herbal alternatives to treat medical problems dealt with pharmaceutically in places where resources are more available. Oventic, where our correspondent travelled to bring you this episode, is the center of the Mayans herbal medicine practice.Due to the low intensity conflict in Chiapas, it is by turning to tradition that the indigenous Mayans of the Zapatista communities are able to preserve their autonomy. For more information about those working to preserve the herbal and other traditions of the Mayans, please see OMIECH’s website.-Espa
06/07/07