Mexico

Mexico: crackdown on armed forces narco links?

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.

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Mexico: demand grows for release of Chiapas schoolteacher

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.

Mexico

“Black Friday” in Nuevo Laredo: 23 dead

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.

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Mexico approves law to aid victims of narco violence

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.

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Mexico: counterinsurgency general assassinated

After dodging prison terms for murdering campesinos and protecting drug lords, US-trained Gen. Acosta Chaparro is gunned down by an unknown assailant at a Mexico City auto shop.

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Mexico: study blames NAFTA in obesity epidemic

Since NAFTA took effect in 1994, Mexico’s struggle with obesity and its related life-threatening problems—diabetes, stroke, heart disease—has become “Americanized,” a new study reports.

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Juárez drug cartel leader gets life in US consulate killings

José Antonio Acosta Hernández AKA “El Diego,” purported leader of La Linea criminal organization, was sentenced to 10 life terms in El Paso after pleading guilty to the slayings of three people tied to the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez.