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		<title>Four Journalists Kidnapped, One Guard Killed, and Eight Human Heads Found in Wake of Prison Corruption Scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four journalists in the Lagunera region of northern Mexico have disappeared just days after the revelation of a major corruption story. According to a press release by the National Human Rights Commission, the missing journalists include a reporter from Multimedios, two cameramen from the Gómez Palacio Televisa affiliate who were &#8220;picked up&#8221; (or &#8220;levantado&#8221;) in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/07/27/four-journalists-kidnapped-one-guard-killed-and-eight-human-heads-found-in-wake-of-prison-corruption-scandal/</link>
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		<title>Durango Prison Guards Allegedly Let Inmates Out to Commit Mass Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen people died in the early hours of July 18th when gunmen attacked a birthday party in a hotel in the northern city of Torreón. Investigators from the Mexican Attorney General&#8217;s Office say those who committed the crime were supposed to be locked up in a prison across the Durango state line at the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/07/26/durango-prison-guards-allegedly-let-inmates-out-to-commit-mass-murder/</link>
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		<title>América del Valle Emerges from Hiding to Request Asylum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s FSRN: http://www.fsrn.org/audio/mexican-activist-comes-out-hiding-seek-asylum-venezuela/6976
A prominent Mexican activist has emerged from more than four years in hiding to seek asylum. América del Valle arrived at the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico City Wednesday to ask the South American nation to take her in as a political refugee. Del Valle &#8211; along with other members of her family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/06/24/america-del-valle-emerges-from-hiding-to-request-asylum/</link>
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		<title>Oaxacan Teachers Mobilize Amid Stalled Negotiations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.fsrn.org/audio/download/6913/20100614SY.mp3
Public school teachers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca mobilized today as part of ongoing labor negotiations and to commemorate the anniversary of a police action that sparked a popular uprising 4 years ago today.
(sound: barricade bottle rockets and chants)
The day of action kicked off at 4am local time with chants, bottle rockets, and barricades [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/06/14/oaxacan-teachers-mobilize-amid-stalled-negotiations/</link>
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		<title>Mexican Police Remove Strikers from Cananea Copper Mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal police in Mexico have forcibly removed strikers from a copper mine at the heart of a long-running labor dispute. Workers have occupied the Cananea copper mine for the past 3 years, calling for better on-the-job safety guarantees. The Cananea mine is Mexico&#8217;s largest source of copper. The company that owns the mine, Grupo Mexico, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/06/07/mexican-police-remove-strikers-from-cananea-copper-mine/</link>
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		<title>Second Caravan Plans to Deliver Aid to San Juan Copala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Activists and human rights observers in Mexico are preparing a second caravan to an indigenous village in Oaxaca that has been blockaded by paramilitaries since November.
The call for the second aid caravan to the town of San Juan Copala came just days after paramilitaries opened fire on a convoy of human rights defenders, teachers, activists, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/06/03/second-caravan-plans-to-deliver-aid-to-san-juan-copala/</link>
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		<title>Mexican Supreme Court Rules on Access to Abortions for Rape Victims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexico&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled today that states must provide emergency contraception or legal abortions to rape victims upon request. This brings states who have passed anti-abortion legislation in the past 18 months back into line with federal law, which allows for the legal termination of pregnancies resulting from rape.
Mexico City legalized 1st term abortions back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/05/27/mexican-supreme-court-rules-on-access-to-abortions-for-rape-victims/</link>
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		<title>Triqui Autonomy Movement Leader Assassinated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A key figure in the Triqui autonomy movement was assassinated Thursday afternoon along with his wife in the town of Yosoyuxi near San Juan Copala. Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez was one of the main organizers behind the &#8220;autonomous municipality&#8221; of San Juan Copala.
In Mexico, a &#8220;municipality&#8221; has the same political status as a county seat. Yosoyuxi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/05/21/triqui-autonomy-movement-leader-assassinated/</link>
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		<title>The Context of the Conflict in San Juan Copala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ambush that killed a prominent Mexican human rights defender and a Finnish observer near San Juan Copala, Oaxaca may be the first time in Mexican history that paramilitaries have opened fire on an international humanitarian caravan, but it&#8217;s not an isolated act of violence. The fiercely independent Triqui nation has been steeped in years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/05/04/the-roots-of-the-conflict-in-san-juan-copala/</link>
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		<title>Reporters Missing After Ambush Rescued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Mexican reporters who survived a deadly ambush on an international aid caravan in Oaxaca were located alive last night and are receiving medical treatment. David Cilia and Érika Ramírez from Contralinea magazine were the last missing members of the caravan to be accounted for alive.
They had run into a canyon and hid with Oaxacan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southnotes.org/2010/04/30/reporters-missing-after-ambush-rescued/</link>
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