More than a dozen protesters and press photographers surrounded Brad when he was shot. All those interviewed said that the bullets came from down the street. Moments before Brad was killed, the Milenio newspaper photographer Oswaldo Ramirez was shot in the leg. The Mexican Office of the Federal Attorney General, or PGR, however, has neither interviewed Mr. Ramirez nor investigated the shooting. read more »

Mexican prosecutors are charging Oaxacan activists with murdering NYC Indymedia journalist Brad Will during anti-government protests he was covering in October 2006. In this special report, John Gibler goes inside a deliberately botched investigation and looks at why justice is an elusive goal for victims of political violence in Mexico. read more »

On Dec. 1 one president – appointed by a stacked electoral tribunal – slipped into the Mexican Congress through the back door for a four-minute inauguration ceremony held on a dais occupied by the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and suited Secret Service agents, while a second president – self-appointed in a massive rally in Mexico City – led a tame protest march to a prepackaged stage and sound system waiting in front of the police barricade half a mile away from the march’s proclaimed destination. read more »

The images were damning: this was a death squad. And these were the people who would come that night. But tonight, Andres has been told, there will be no holding back. read more »

“What we hope for is to improve Mexico,” she said, “to no longer be trampled on by the rich, those that invalidated our votes. We want the people to choose their government. Without the people, a president is nothing.” read more »

On Jan. 1 the Zapatista Army of National Liberation set out from the Lacandon Jungle for the second time since they rose up in arms on Jan. 1, 1994, the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. This time their military chief, Subcomandante Marcos, traded his assault rifle for a notebook and pen; clad in his trademark black ski mask, boots and fatigues, the rebel leader and scribe hit the road on a national listening tour, a rugged journey through Mexico’s most marginalized rural villages and big-city slums to gather stories of social rebellion from the underdogs (los de abajo) of the Mexican Left. read more »