Activists have identified 10 “zones of extermination” in Ciudad Juárez, where “youthcide” is carried out with impunity—despite warnings from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Upon receiving word that the bodies of her missing family members had been found, hunger-striking activist Marisela Reyes Salazar called on President Calderón to end this “stupid dirty war.”
Mexican federal police announced the capture of “El Papirrin,” leader of “La Resistencia”—an alliance of cartels formed to resist the drive by Los Zetas to dominate Mexico’s narco networks.
President Felipe Calderón’s militarization of the struggle against drug trafficking is “a war from above” largely for the benefit of US interests, according to a letter by Subcommander Marcos.
An indigenous environmental activist was killed in Mexico's south-central state of Morelos, three days ahead of a planned referendum on an energy development project that he opposed. Samir Flores Soberanes was a leader of the local Peoples in Defense of Land and Water Front and community radio station Amilzinko. He was slain by unknown gunmen in an attack at his home in the village of Amilcingo, Temoac municipality. He was a longtime figure in local opposition to the planned Huexca power plant and associated natural-gas pipeline, pushed by the government under the Morelos Integral Project. (Photo: Somos el Medio)
Mexican Federal Police allegedly shot radio journalist Gilardo Mota Figueroa when they opened fire on a protest against President Felipe Calderón’s visit to Oaxaca City.
Armed men set fire to the house of Malu García Andrade, while she was attending a protest encampment in support of other human rights activists under siege in violence-torn Ciudad Juárez.
Armed heists on grain trucks and other signs of protein-desperation are breaking out across Mexico as harsh weather has decimated corn and other food crops.
A US ICE agent attached to the Mexico City embassy was killed in a narco-ambush near Monterrey as drug-related violence claimed several lives around the country.
The Mexican daily La Jornada announced it has received some 3,000 US diplomatic cables, which purport to reveal links between Mexico’s narco gangs and Colombia’s FARC guerillas.
Friends of the Women of Juárez wrote US Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano demanding the release of three-year-old Mexican Heidi Frayre to the care of relatives in El Paso, Texas.
Samuel Ruíz García, the bishop who arguably saved Mexico from civil war by brokering peace talks with the Zapatista rebels in the 1990s, died in Mexico City at the age of 86.
