Moisés Montero Álvarez AKA “El Coreano,” alleged leader of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA), was captured by Mexican federal police and charged in the massacre of 20 abducted vacationers from Michoacán who were mistaken for members of a rival cartel.
Mexican governance secretary Francisco Blake Mora met with more than 160 relatives of people who have been “disappeared”—kidnapped by criminals, by the police or by the military.
Mexican government and university researchers warn that some 200 species in the deserts and mountains of northern Chihuahua state are being pushed to extinction by droughts and other extreme weather events linked to climate change.
A memo leaked by the hacker group LulzSec from the Tucson police on a supposed emerging collaboration between Hezbollah and the Mexican drug cartels sparked hearings on Capitol Hill. But the memo itself was mostly empty speculation.
The Mexican attorney general’s office has charged 111 officials with corruption, fired 140 police officers, and revealed that 280 more are under investigation for ties to kidnapping, murder, extortion and organized crime.
Frustrated by slow progress in determining the fates of missing loved ones, relatives of ten men from southern Mexico who vanished on the US border have embarked on a hunger strike and public protest.
The average income of Mexican households fell by 12.3% between 2008 and 2010, a new report finds, with the main source of new job growth identified as the illegal narcotrafficking sector.
Some “gun trafficking ‘higher-ups'” who supply weapons to Mexican drug cartels may have been “paid as informants” by US government agencies, according to two ranking US Congress members.
Two armed men gunned down Mexican activists Isabel Ayala Nava and her sister, Reyna Ayala Nava, as they were leaving a church in Xaltianguis, near Acapulco. Ayala was the widow of famed guerilla leader Lucio Cabañas Barrientos.
Key state elections in Mexico returned the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power, in what commentators are calling a signal that the once-discredited party could regain the presidency next year.
At least five Central American immigrants were forcibly removed from a freight train by about 10 armed men wearing hoods in Veracruz state, according to two immigrants who managed to escape.
The Mexican military has taken responsibility for 44 cases of human rights violations since December 2006, when President Calderón ordered soldiers into the fight against drug trafficking.
