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.
Former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo has filed a 122-page statement calling charges that he “was somehow complicit” in a 1977 massacre of indigenous civilians “baseless and outrageous.”
Dozens of students occupied four radio stations in Chilpancingo, capital of the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, to publicize their positions on an ongoing conflict at a nearby rural teachers’ college that last month left two students dead.
Mexican federal officials have mobilized thousands more military troops to violence-torn northeastern Tamaulipas state in an emergency move prompted by escalating violence—punctuated by a prison riot that left over 30 dead.
The government of the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero has arrested a police commander in connection with the Dec. 7 kidnapping of two campesino environmental activists.
Mexican authorities announced the arrest this month of two more leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel—but the notorious top kingpin Joaquin Guzmán AKA “El Chapo” remains at large, fueling speculation that he is protected by the government and DEA.
Mexican environmental activists Eva Alarcón and Marcial Bautista were reportedly still alive two weeks after their Dec. 7 kidnapping from a bus in the southwestern state of Guerrero.
Mexican ex-officials work as informants for the US DEA, which turns out to be laundering money for the cartels as part of the “war on drugs”; meanwhile, the murders of peace activists continue.
Two Mexican students were killed by police gunfire around as police agents and soldiers attempted to disperse protesters blocking the Mexico City-Acapulco highway near the capital of Guerrero.
