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Mexico: vigilantes and narcos in hostage swap
The ongoing regional war in Mexico's Guerrero state between narco gangs and the anti-narco "community police" militia movement resulted in a hostage stand-off.
Tag: Guerrero
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Mexico: more ‘narco-fosas’ found in Guerrero
Army troops discovered over 30 bodies buried in mass graves in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, where the back-country is effectively run by murderous narco-gangs.
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Mexico: ‘community police’ co-opted by cartels?
Bloody internecine fighting in Guerrero state fuels fears that Mexico's anti-narco "community police" groups could themselves be co-opted by the warring cartels.
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Wanted police chief arrested in Mexican massacre
Felipe Flores, former police chief of Iguala, the Mexican city where 43 college students disappeared in 2014, was finally apprehended after two years as a fugitive.
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Mexico: top Ayotzinapa investigator resigns
Tomás Zerón de Lucio, head of Mexico's Criminal Investigations Agency, turned in his resignation amid an internal inquiry into his handling of the Ayotzinapa massacre case.
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Pressure on Mexico to free peasant ecologist
Mexican ecological defender Ildefonso Zamora is now in his seventh month behind bars, despite calls for his relase from Amnesty International and Greenpeace.
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Pressure on Mexico to free ‘community police’ leader
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a ruling that Mexico's imprisonment of Guerrero "community police" leader Nestora Salgado is illegal.
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Mexico: Zapatistas host Ayotzinapa families
The Zapatista rebels in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas marked the anniversary of their 1994 New Years Day uprising by hosting a national activist gathering in their territory.
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Anarchist bomb blasts in Mexico City?
A group called the "Pagan Sect of the Mountain" claimed responsibility for improvised bomb attacks on Mexico City buses, in a communique filled with anti-civilization rhetoric.
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Extraditions signal continued Sinaloa impunity?
Mexico extradited 13 top drug-trafficking suspects to the United States—but all from Los Zetas and other rival organzations to the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Mexico: protesters mobilize on massacre anniversary
On the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, thousands of protesters filled the streets of Mexico City.
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Mexico: more holes in missing students case
The Mexican government says it has identified a second set of remains from the 43 missing students, but an Argentine forensic team working on the case questions the claim.