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Campesinos block gold mine in Zacatecas
Campesinos in Zacatecas are blocking the gates of a gold mine owned by magnate Carlos Slim to protest ecological impacts on their communal lands.
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Mexico: bloody Christmas in Michoacán, Sinaloa
A spate of shootouts between rival cartels and police forces left over 20 dead around the Christmas holiday in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Jalisco and Sinaloa.
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Mexico: new details emerge on Wal-Mart scandal
Following up on an exposé last April of bribery by Wal-Mart de México, NY Times reporters have identified 19 Wal-Mart stores whose construction was aided by corruption.
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Mexico: analysts compare Newtown killings and ‘drug war’ deaths
“It is shocking how the debate over gun control in the wake of the Newtown massacre has avoided mentioning gun violence south of the border”: UNAM professor John M. Ackerman.
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Chiapas: Abejas mark 1997 Acteal massacre
Followers of the indigenous pacifist group Las Abejas held a ceremony at the hamlet of Acteal in the Chiapas Highlands to remember the 1997 massacre there and demand justice.
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Chiapas: Zapatistas mark Maya calendar change
Thousands of Maya followers of the Zapatista rebel movement marched, masked but unarmed, on towns in Mexico's Chiapas state, marking the turning of the Maya calendar.
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Mexico: prison seized by army after uprising
A prison in northern Mexico’s Durango has been siezed by the military after an armed uprising by inmates left nine guards and 14 prisoners dead.
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HSBC gets off easy in ‘drug war’ case
HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, will pay the US government $1.92 billion in fines for its failure to prevent the laundering of drug money—but no one will face criminal charges.
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Mexico bans Maya ceremony at ancestral temples
Tourists are flocking to Mexico for the “end of the Maya calendar,” but Maya elders protest that they are barred from performing ceremonies at the archeological sites.
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Mexico: will court ruling legalize same-sex marriage?
A panel of the Mexican Supreme Court decided unanimously to uphold a challenge that three same-sex couples brought against the marriage law in the southern state of Oaxaca.
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Mexico: evidence mounts of police repression on Dec. 1 inaugural
Protesters charge agents repeatedly attacked, beat and arrested peaceful demonstrators and bystanders while failing to arrest the people who had been engaged in vandalism.
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Mexico: Peña Nieto takes office as youths riot
Protests against Enrique Peña Nieto during his inauguration quickly turned into violent clashes between police and demonstrators that disrupted much of downtown Mexico City.