Federal agents raided New Mexico’s Ruidoso Downs racetrack in a crackdown on Zeta cartel stateside money-laundering operations. Meanwhile, narco-arson attacks hit five Mexico warehouses of US-owned junk food giant Sabritas.
Mexico’s largest TV network was paid in 2005 to have its news and entertainment programs influence voters’ perceptions of various politicians, according to documents given to The Guardian—generally favoring the PRI and PAN.
The body of indigenous teacher and activist TeĂłdulo Santos GirĂłn was found in Mexico’s Michoacán state, the night after he was abducted. He was the 29th murder victim from the rural community of Ostula, site of an ongoing land dispute.
Harassed by student protests, Enrique Peña Nieto of the former entrenched PRI political machine is still favored to win Mexico’s July 1 presidential elections, but polls released at the end of May showed his lead slipping.
Private and public university students in Mexico have united to protest media coverage of the upcoming presidential elections—and the likely victory of Enrique Peña Nieto, candidate of the former entrenched and authoritarian ruling party.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights are demanding action following the torture-slayings of several reporters and photographers across Mexico in recent weeks.
Amid new massacres—49 mutilated bodies found on a roadside in Nuevo León, another 15 along a highway in Jalisco—Mexican federal authorities have finally detained high-ranking military officers in an investigation of cartel collaboration.
An international mobilization is demanding release of a Chiapas schoolteacher convicted in the killing of seven police agents. The only witness against him was the local mayor’s son, who later admitted giving false testimony in exchange for a bribe.
Tens of thousands of unionists and campesinos joined the independent unions’ annual march in Mexico City, while the mineworkers union may have won in a six-year confrontation with the government.
In a new escalation of the factional narco-violence in northern Mexico, nine bodies—some bearing signs of torture—were hanged from an overpass in Nuevo Laredo, and 14 severed heads left in ice coolers outside city hall.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that will recognize, protect and provide aid to victims of crimes stemming from the gang-related drug wars that have engulfed the country for nearly the last six years.
The New York Times revealed that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. covered up a $24 million bribery scandal in 2005 in its Mexican branch, the largest private employer in the country.
