Some 500 people marched in Guadalajara to demand that the federal and state governments honor their commitments to protect land that is sacred to the Wixárika (Huichol) indigenous group.
The Mexican government is violating its own laws on genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the way it handles experimental corn crops, according to a complaint by Greenpeace.
Nine indigenous Mixe residents at the politically divided Oaxaca municipality of Santiago Choápam were killed and some 20 wounded when they were ambushed on a mountain road on their way to a election rally.
Quetzalcóatl Leija Herrera, a prominent Guerrero LGBT activist, was found dead near the main plaza in Chilpancingo, the state capital. He had been beaten to death, in what prosecutors call “a homophobic hate crime.”
Tens of thousands of people participated in a silent “March for Peace With Justice and Dignity” in Mexico City to call for an end to the US-backed militarization of the fight against drug trafficking.
Rescue crews recovered the last of 14 bodies from the Pozo 3 coal mine hit by a gas explosion in Mexico’s northern Coahuila state, which labor leaders charge was operating “outside of the law.”
As momentum builds for the May 8 protest against violence and impunity in Mexico, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) announced its support for the movement started by poet Javier Sicilia.
A leading Mexican feminist, Marcela Lagarde, says President Felipe Calderón’s militarization of the fight against drug trafficking has increased the level of violence against women.
As nearly 300 bodies were unearthed from clandestine graves in the northern Mexican states of Durango and Tamaulipas, human rights activists were accosted by naval troops in the military-occupied border city of Matamoros.
A report released by the government’s National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Conapred) showed a widespread perception of violence and discrimination in Mexican society, especially against women.
The Mexican state of Tamaulipas has dismissed its security chief while federal police arrested 16 municipal officers in the town of San Fernando following the discovery of more than 145 bodies in mass graves over the past weeks.
William Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for international narcotics, admitted the architects of the hemispheric drug war were wrong in assuming the problem “could be resolved quickly with an aggressive campaign.”
