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Mexico: US documents blast Calderón’s ‘drug war’
Mexican drug cartels operate “with near total impunity” despite the country’s massive US-funded war on drugs, which in turn has brought about a “spike” in violence.
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Mexico: imprisoned Chiapas schoolteacher released
After 13 years in prison, indigenous schoolteacher and activist Alberto Patishtán is finally free, thanks to a presidential pardon–and pressure from around the world.
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Mexico: narcos abduct migrants —again
Tamaulipas state police resuced 73 abducted migrants outside Reynosa after following their apparent captors to a house and hearing frantic calls for help.
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UN-introduced cholera spreads to Mexico
The UN still refuses to accept responsibility for bringing cholera to Haiti. Now the epidemic is spreading to the Latin American mainland.
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Anabel Hernández: Mexico’s new narco order
Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández, facing death threats after outing top officials as cartel collaborators, speaks on the state of the narco wars under the new government.
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Gulf Cartel’s Guatemalan jefe busted in Chiapas
Mexican federal police announced the apprehension of a fugitive Gulf Cartel kingpin, Eduardo Francisco Villatoro Cano AKA “Guayo”—wanted in Guatemala for a bloody attack on police.
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Mexico: US spied on former president Calderón
In the latest US spying revelations, documents show the NSA considered the Mexican government an “important target” and the president’s office a “lucrative source.”
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Mexico: Guerrero campesino leader gunned down
Once again unidentified men have assassinated a member of the activist Mesino family in broad daylight in Atoyac de Alvarez.
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Mexico: judge suspends GM corn planting
As activists prepared for an international day of action against Monsanto, a Mexican judge issued an injunction suspending the planting of GM corn in Mexico.
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Mexico: massacre commemoration turns violent
Hooded youths attacked police, journalists and other protesters at a march commemorating the 45th anniversary of the government's massacre of striking students.
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Mexico busts more Sinaloa Cartel biggies —but still not El Chapo
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.
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Mexico: Cananea strike broken, miners left jobless
Grupo México and the Mexican government succeeded in smashing a strike in an historic copper mining town which now suffers from crime and unemployment.