Mexico
Mexico called to task over disappeared
A Human Rights Watch report finds that Mexican security forces took part in thousands of disappearances over the term of President Felipe Calderón, with little investigation.
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Mexico
Mexico: Finnish maquila signs with company union
The Finnish-based auto parts multinational PKC Group fired independent unionists and signed a contract with a protection union at three assembly plants near the Texas border.
Mexico
Border Patrol shot youth in back, autopsy confirms
After four months neither the US or the Mexican government has much to say about the death of an unarmed Mexican minor gunned down in Mexico by US agents.
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Mexico: Chapo goon popped —but still not Chapo
The Mexican military announced the capture of “El Fantasma,” yet another accused lieutenant of fugitive Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin Guzmán AKA “El Chapo.”
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Mexico: at least 37 dead in Pemex explosion
The authorities now blame gas accumulation for a blast that killed at least 37 people at the headquarters of Mexico’s accident-prone state oil monopoly.
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Mexico: high court rules against electrical workers
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled against thousands of laid-off electrical workers who want to be hired by a state enterprise after the government shut down their former employer.
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Mexico: EZLN supporter freed after year in jail
One civilian Zapatista supporter has been released from jail in Chiapas, more than 13 months after his arrest, but schoolteacher Alberto Patishtán Gómez is still imprisoned.
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Mexico: campesinos bear arms against narcos
Cmpesinos in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state have taken up arms to defend themselves from drug-trafficking gangs that terrorize residents and demand protection payments.
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Mexico: victims’ movement calls for US gun control
54,558 people have signed a letter calling on US President Obama and other officials to stop the flow of smuggled firearms from the US to Mexican drug gangs.
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Mexico: US to train commandos for ‘drug war’
A US Special Operations group is set to train Mexican commandos to fight drug traffickers with the techniques the US military has used to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Peace of the graveyard in Ciudad Juárez?
Violent deaths in Ciudad Juárez dropped to 800 last year, down from a peak of 3,622 in 2010—likely because the Sinaloa Cartel has finally crushed local rival, the Juárez Cartel.
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Hezbollah link to Zapatistas? Not!
An Israeli press account plays a cynical game of connect-the-dots to link Hezbollah and the Zetas to the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas. Don't believe the hype.