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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)

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Ciudad Juárez: escalating attacks on activists

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.

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Mexican agriculture in crisis

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.

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Mexico: labor calls for Calderón’s ouster

At a massive march against NAFTA and the government’s neoliberal economic policies, leaders of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union called for driving President Calderón out of office.

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Mexico: rights group pins killings on military

There were at least eight killings last year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León “that evidence indicates were the result of unlawful use of lethal force by army and navy officers.”