Mexico: UN criticizes officials on disappearances
The Mexican government is facing more international criticism for its handling of some 22,600 cases of forced disappearances over the past eight years.
The Mexican government is facing more international criticism for its handling of some 22,600 cases of forced disappearances over the past eight years.
Twin brothers were the latest to be sentenced in a series of high-profile cases targeting Sinaloa Cartel operations in Chicago—despite having infiltrated the cartel for the DEA.
The Mexican government claims the case of the missing 43 students is solved, but outside forensic experts say problems with the inquiry make it impossible to be sure.
The Mexican government said it raided an assembly plant in Jalisco and saved 129 workers from labor abuse, although there are now some questions about the action.
As the Mexican government pushes to get more private contractors for its oil company, Reuters reveals that 8% of the current contracts have serious problems.
Mexican authorities detained 13 police officers in the state of Veracruz in connection with the abduction of a journalist who aggressively covered local narco-corruption.
Parents of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students insist that the military knows more than it admits about their abduction. Meanwhile, the government's version gets shakier and shakier.
President Obama offered to help Mexico fight corruption and political violence, probably by more funding for programs that protesters say simply fuel the crisis.
Another major bust of an accused Mexican cartel operative in Chicago this time involves the Guerreros Unidos—the gang named in the the disappearance of 43 college students.
He put millions in Swiss bank accounts when he was a low-paid official and his brother was president, but the courts have ruled there's not enough evidence of corruption.
Mexican federal prosecutors have released a document from their probe into a 2010 massacre of migrants—pointing to collusion between local police and Los Zetas.
A case related to the Sinaloa Cartel's Chicago connection provided further fodder for the increasingly plausible theory that the DEA protected Mexico's biggest crime machine.