Mexico

Mexico: Israel training Chiapas police?

Israel’s embassy in Mexico City denied widespread reports in the Mexican media that Israeli military advisors are training police in the southern state of Chiapas. 

Mexico

Mexico: army rescues 165 kidnapped migrants

Thousands of migrants continue to be killed or kidnapped each year as they try to cross Mexico to the US; activists say Mexican officials are involved in some of the crimes.

Mexico

‘Drug war’ dissent at OAS summit

More than 160 civil society organizations sent an open letter to the OAS summit, calling for alternatives to the “war on drugs” that guarantee respect for human rights.

Mexico

Mexico: violence escalates in Michoacán

Violence continues to escalate in Mexico’s west-central state of Michoacán, with transport suspended to several conflicted towns, leaving them cut off from the outside world.