Three accused Sinaloa Cartel operatives go on trial in the US, while Guatemala denies rumors that the cartel’s fugitive kingpin was killed in a jungle shoot-out with police.
A vigilante calling herself Diana the Hunter claimed credit for the slaying of two bus drivers in Ciudad Juárez, calling it revenge for sexual abuse of women by night-shift drivers.
Mexican army troops disarmed hundreds of members of the “community police” peasant self-defense movement after a brief scuffle on the coastal highway in Guerrero state.
The Sinaloa Cartel’s Sandra Ávila Beltrán, dubbed the “Queen of the Pacific” by the Mexican media, was released by US authorities but faces fresh charges in her home country.
The presumed kingpin of the Gulf Cartel, Mario Ramírez Treviño AKA “El Pelón,” was arrested by Mexican army troops along with two henchmen in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.
The Zapatista rebels in Chiapas charged that military planes are overflying the settlements where they are holding an international activist gathering dubbed the Freedom School.
Mexico’s most notorious kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, was released from Puente Grande federal prison in Jalisco where he had been incarcerated for the past 28 years.
Murders in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas jumped more than 90% and kidnapping reports more than doubled over last year to the highest rate in the country.
Comuneros in the Mexican village of Tepoztlán seized the town hall and took the mayor captive to demand cancellation of a highway expansion they say violates their land rights.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s pledge to reduce gangland violence is looking dubious as nearly 30 are killed in Michoacán fighting between narco-gunmen and federales.
The July 22 Global Day of Action Against Open-Pit Mining, most widely observed in the Andean nations, also saw coordinated protests in NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada.
The government of Chiapas cancelled a controversial forest protection plan that critics said failed to address root causes of deforestation and endangered indigenous peoples.
