The US State Department issued a finding that Mexico’s ex-president Ernesto Zedillo should be immune from a suit brought against him in connection with the 1997 Acteal massacre.
The Mexican daily La Jornada reports that the two US agents wounded in a roadside ambush by federal police were from the Central Intelligence Agency, not the DEA.
Relatives of victims of drug-related violence in Mexico protested lax US gun control laws by destroying two US-purchased firearms in a public park in Houston.
Students held a “funeral for democracy” in reponse to the official designation of Enrique Peña Nieto, from the once-entrenched PRI machine, as Mexico’s next president.
A group of Mexican federal police agents attacked a US embassy car. Mexican authorities attributed the incident to “confusion”: the US embassy called it an “ambush.”
The governor of Mexico’s Guerrero state signed an agreement with campesino communities pledging not to move ahead with La Parota hydro-dam without their consent.
Two US Congress members say there’s evidence that Wal-Mart Stores didn’t take legally required steps to prevent money laundering and tax evasion through its Mexican subsidiary.
The US is investigating possible money laundering through a Las Vegas casino company owned by US billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a major donor to the Republican Party.
Six Mexican coal miners were killed when some 100 tons of coal and rock collapsed in a mine operated by AHMSA company in the northern state of Coahuila.
At an unusual joint press conference in Mexico City on July 19, the presidents of Mexico’s governing center-right National Action Party (PAN) and the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) called on the federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to… Read moreMexico: money laundering scandals multiply
Thousands of people marched in Mexico City on July 22 to protest what they called the “imposition” of Enrique Peña Nieto, the official winner in the July 1 presidential election, and his party, the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Signs and… Read moreMexico: more protests planned against ‘imposition’
With chants of “Fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,” thousands of Mexico City residents responded to the country’s July 1 presidential and legislative elections with a massive and apparently spontaneous march repudiating the results.
