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 RuĂz GarcĂa, 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.
US Army Undersecretary Joseph Westphal said drug cartels are mounting an “insurgency” in Mexico—sparking a harsh reaction from the Mexican interior secretariat.
At a massive march against NAFTA and the government’s neoliberal economic policies, leaders of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union called for driving President CalderĂłn out of office.
There were at least eight killings last year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo LeĂłn “that evidence indicates were the result of unlawful use of lethal force by army and navy officers.”
Gunmen assassinated the security chief at a Monterrey prison and the newly appointed police chief in Nuevo Laredo amid a new wave of violence in northern Mexico.
The main Mexican intelligence agency “has allowed [US government] officers to interview foreign nationals detained at Mexican immigration detention centers,” says a cable released by WikiLeaks.
Hundreds started a fast in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 30 massacre of 15 youths in the city’s Villas de Salvárcar neighborhood.
The new governor of Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state, Gabino CuĂ©, faces continued political violence and corruption scandals, despite the fall of the entrenched political machine.
UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay called on Mexico to determine whether there was complicity by authorities in the mass kidnapping of some 40 Central American immigrants.
Some 7,000 Mexicans have participated in a program through which the Colombian government trains Mexican soldiers and police in techniques for fighting drug cartels.
