Mexico
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
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.
Mexico
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.
Mexico
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.