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.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission strongly condemned state and federal officials and police agents for their actions in an incident in the state of Guerrero that left three people dead.
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón, constitutionally barred from re-election, will meet with Obama in the White House this week for his final NAFTA summit—with his country’s bloody cartel wars topping the security agenda.
Transgender activist Agnes Torres Sulca and anti-mining activist Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez are the latest victims of a wave of violence that seems to target grassroots political organizers.
Tens of thousands of Mexican teachers in several states went on strike or took to the streets March 14-16 in three days of “Action in Defense of Education.”
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 León. 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.
