Today in Labor History April 10, 1919: Mexican troops ambushed and assassinated Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary indigenous and peasant leader. Zapata’s Rebel Army of the South played a major role in the overthrow of the dictator, Porfirio Diaz, defeating the federal army in the Battle of Cuautla in 1911. Also in 1911, Zapata began implementing the Plan de Ayala, redistributing land in the regions controlled by his army to peasant farmers. However, when former revolutionary Madero took over, he disavowed the Zapatistas, calling them simple bandits. He implemented a scorched earth policy, burning villages and imprisoning survivors in forced labor camps, in his quest to hunt down Zapata. Madero’s successor, Venustiano Carranza, continued his scorched earth policies and finally succeeded in killing Zapata in 1919.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mexico #Revolution #zapata #indigenous #rebel

What was #UAW thinking backing this plan?

#Trump’s 25% #tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending tremors through the #AutoIndustry, prompting companies to stop shipping #cars to the #US, shut down factories in #Canada & #Mexico & lay off workers in #Michigan & other states.

#Trump #economy #inflation #recession #layoffs #trumpcession
nytimes.com/2025/04/08/busines…

Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories

A few carmakers have closed factories, laid off workers or shifted production in response to the auto tariffs that took effect last week.

^{Jack Ewing (The New York Times)}

Germany’s Pauline Alexandra Pfeif competes in the women’s 10m platform preliminary during the World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2025 at Centre Acuatico Code Metropolitano in Guadalajara, #Mexico

Photograph: Héctor Vivas/Getty Images

@photography
#women
#diving

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

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And #SigmarGabriel is right!

#Canada and #Mexico, while having a lot of indigenous roots, AS well as Asian and African, the majority of people have ancestral roots on the European continent and speak one of its languages.

But things should not be hastened, the #EuropeanUnion did not start as such.

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IMO, starting with a fast-track implementation of a free-trade area...

#USpol #LosDesaparecidos

As #Fascism takes hold of the #US, tracking #TheDisappeared is an excellent idea.

#Argentina, #Chile, #Mexico, national healing a some future point in time can eventually only take place if the wherabouts of Los Desaparecidos are known.

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Argentina and “los desaparecidos”

^www.ifsw.org

Activists take part in national citizens’ march to demand severe punishment for people who abuse animals, Mexico City, #Mexico

Photograph: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/REX/Shutterstock

@photography
#AnimalAbuse

Mi fin de semana en un sitio que no visitaba hace tiempo 🌼

#Fotografía #Flores #México #Primavera #Nopal #Senderismo

A group of young people covered in body paint take part in the San Nicolás de los Ranchos carnival, Puebla, #Mexico

Photograph: Hector Quintanar/Getty Images

@photography
#carnival

A girl takes part in a vigil for the victims of the clandestine mass grave recently found in Teuchitlán, #Mexico

Photograph: Seila Montes/Reuters

@photography

#Tesla is done in the whole of #Europe, #Canada, and #Mexico.

Not sure how they can bounce back from this.

What a strong image...

#tesla #mexico

Teddy bears sit at tables to maintain social distancing measures at Jaso Bakery restaurant in #Mexico City, July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

#COVID
#SocialDistancing