Mexican governance secretary Alejandro Poiré formally apologized to indigenous campesina Inés Fernández for her rape by three Mexican soldiers in 2002. Fernández then denounced the government.
About 1,000 indigenous people and campesinos in Mexico's Chiapas state marched to protest high rates for electricity, to oppose the construction of more dams in the region, and to demand that electric utilities not be privatized.
Mexican federal police announced the arrest of two leading Sinaloa Cartel figures, Jaime Herrera Herrera AKA "El Viejito" and osé Antonio Torres Marrufo AKA "El Marrufo"—but maximum boss Joaquín Guzmán AKA "El Chapo" (Shorty) remains at large.
Officials from the US and Mexico signed an agreement that opens the way for oil and gas development along the two countries’ maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico. A moratorium on drilling had been extended after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
With little fanfare, the Mexican government is now starting to end the ban on the commercial development of transgenic corn. Monsanto and other GMO multinationals are set to go, with lands set aside in Sinaloa and other northern states.
At least 44 prisoners were killed in a clash between adherents of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel at the Center for Social Readaptation (CERESO) in Apodaca, Nuevo LeĂłn. The CERESO, with an official capacity of 1,500, was holding some 3,000.
Mexico’s Supreme Court ordered the release of seven indigenous Tzotzil Maya men who had been convicted of homicide and other crimes in the December 1997 massacre of 45 indigenous campesinos at Acteal, Chiapas.
Norma Andrade, a prominent activist who has waged a campaign for justice in the unsolved murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, may seek asylum outside Mexico after being wounded in two separate attacks in two different cities.
The “New Generation” narco gang has threatened to kill one police officer a day until Ciudad Juárez police chief Julian Leyzoala step down—who they accuse of collaborating with their rivals. The 2,000-strong police force have moved into hotels and safe houses.
An opponent of a Canadian-owned silver mine in Oaxaca was killed when supporters of a pro-mining mayor reportedly fired on a demonstration about a local water pipelin.
Investigators from Mexico’s governmental human rights commission found evidence that Guerrero state police fired the shots that killed two students during a protest last month.
Agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) worked with an informant and with Mexican enforcement agents in 2007 to launder millions of dollars for Mexico’s Beltrán Leyva cartel, news reports reveal.
