Mexico

Narco-terrorism in Michoacán

Nearly half a million were left without electricity after 18 substations were blown up in a wave of coordinated attacks across Mexico’s west-central state of Michoacán.

Mexico

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.

Mexico

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.