(*) RECORTES (Valencia, Spain)

Posted on 2012-07-02 by machete

// Spanish cuts (Valencia, Spain)

(*) THE RESCUE (Valencia, Spain)

Posted on 2012-07-01 by machete

How do you say to rescue in Spanish?

// El rescate (Spain)

ZONA TEMPORALMENTE AUTONOMA (Tepito, Mexico)

Posted on 2012-06-30 by machete

// Temporary Autonomus Zone (Tepito / Mexico)
“T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone” is a book by anarchist writer Hakim Bey published in 1991. It is composed of three sections, “Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism,” “Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy,” and “The Temporary Autonomous Zone.”

Tepito is one of the oldest and more interesting neighborhoods in Mexico City …and definitely could be a chapter of this book.

Some screen footage for complete Mexico report.

nn. LOS QUE HUYERON (Cholula, Mexico)

Posted on 2012-06-27 by machete

// Those who fled (Cholula / Mexico)

Cholula es un nombre de origen náhuatl que significa Lugar de los que huyeron.
Cholula es famosa por sus iglesias. Cuenta la leyenda que tiene 365 Iglesias, una para cada dia del año. Por esto es normal encontrarse con procesiones de gente circulando por sus calles, prácticamente cualquier día.

Cholula is a name of Nahuatl origin, meaning Place of those who fled.
Cholula is famed for its churches. Legend told that there are 365 churches, one for each day of the year. So, it´s so usual meet processions of people circulating through the streets, almost any day.

Saliendo de Cholula, en dirección a Oaxaca, encontramos algunas pinturas murales muy interesantes.

Leaving Cholula, Oaxaca direction, we find some very interesting wall paintings .

n. CHIHUAHUA (Mexico City, Mexico)

Posted on 2012-06-25 by machete

La tarde del 2 de octubre de 1968, miles de personas se reunieron en la Plaza de las Tres Culturas en Tlatelolco.

El ejército vigilaba que no hubiera disturbios. Por su parte, miembros del Batallón Olimpia (cuyos integrantes iban vestidos de civiles con un pañuelo o guante blanco en la mano izquierda) se infiltraban en la manifestación hasta llegar al edificio “Chihuahua” donde se encontraban los oradores del movimiento y varios periodistas.

Cerca de las seis de la tarde, casi finalizado el evento, un helicóptero sobrevoló la plaza del cual se dispararon bengalas, presumiblemente, como señal para que los francotiradores del Batallón Olimpia apostados en el edificio “Chihuahua” abrieran fuego en contra de los manifestantes y militares que resguardaban el lugar, para hacerles creer a estos últimos, que los estudiantes eran los agresores. Los militares en su intento de defenderse, repelieron “la agresión de los estudiantes”, pero ante la confusión, los disparos no fueron dirigidos contra sus agresores, sino hacia la multitud de manifestantes que se encontraban en la plaza de Tlatelolco

Debido a la acción gubernamental al pretender ocultar información, no se ha logrado esclarecer exactamente la cantidad oficial de asesinados, heridos, desaparecidos y encarcelados.

La BBC de Londres, en una acotación hecha en el 2005, y luego de conocerse las implicaciones de la CIA en los hechos, sostiene que el número de victimas oscila entre 200 y 300, y que los cuerpos fueron retirados en camiones de transporte de basura.

On the evening of October 2nd, 1968, thousands of people gathered in the Plaza of Three Cultures in Tlatelolco. The army watched there were no riots. Meanwhile, members of the Olympia Battalion (whose members were dressed as civilians with a tissue or white glove on left hand) were infiltrating the demonstration until the building “Chihuahua” where they were speakers of the movement and several journalists.

About six o’clock, almost finished the event, a helicopter flew over the square which fired flares, presumably as a signal for the Olympia Battalion snipers stationed in the building “Chihuahua” opened fire on demonstrators and soldiers who were guarding the site, to make them believe the latter, students were the aggressors. The military in its attempt to defend themselves, repelled “the aggression of the students,” but in the confusion, the shots were not directed against his assailants, but to the crowd of protesters who were in the Plaza de Tlatelolco.

Because government action to trying to hide information has not been able to clarify exactly how much officer killed, wounded, missing and imprisoned

The BBC, in a remark made in 2005, and after learning the implications of the CIA in fact, argues that the number of victims varies between 200 and 300, and the bodies were removed in garbage trucks.