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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.
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Oaxaca: indigenous protest camp eviction
A protest encampment of Triqui indigenous campesinos displaced from their village by paramilitary violence was evicted by police in downtown Oaxaca City.
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Mexico: remaining Dec. 1 detainees freed
Mexico City released 14 people held for almost four weeks on charges of “attacks on the public peace” during protests against the inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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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.