MEXICO EDITION. As Mexican environmentalists protest outside the Canadian embassy after the assassination of Mariano Abarca, director of the anti-mining movement in Chicomuselo, Chiapas, and the women electricians have been on hunger strike for 12 days, demanding to be rehired, researchers warn that the United States is secretly installing anti-drug bases in Mexico. Martha Elena Ramirez hosts this edition of Voz Pública from Mexico City.

Guests: Luis Gutiérrez Esparza, Presidente, Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Internacionales (CLAEI) , México, D.F.; Uriel Abarca Robledo, hermano de activista anti-minero Mariano Abarca Robledo, Chicomuselo, Chiapas; Mónica Jiménez Acosta, Coordinadora, Movimiento de mujeres electricistas en resistencia, México, D.F.

MEXICO EDITION. Thirty-three countries participated in creating the Community of Latin American States, with the goal to become an organism for political and economic coordination and regional integration. The new international organism is an act of defense against the United States’ dominion over the region. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this edition of Voz Pública from Mexico City.

Guests: Luis Gutiérrez Esparza, President, Círculo Latinoamericanos de Estudios Internacionales, Mexico City, www.claei.org.mx ; Dr. Adalberto Santana, Director, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe, UNAM, Mexico City, www.cialc.unam