Mexican activists, local residents and state authorities committed to working for the rights of Central American immigrants at the conclusion of a caravan from Chiapas to Oaxaca.
Mexico and Venezuela re both “looking to assert [their] leadership in the region, particularly in Central America,” according to a leaked US embassy cable.
Mexican human rights activist Marisela Escobedo Ortiz was buried in Ciudad Juárez two days after she was shot dead by an unidentified man as she was protesting in front of the state government office.
Mexico has the highest rate of violent deaths for women among countries not at war, according to the regional director of the UN Development Fund for Women, Ana Güezmes.
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón has been advising the US on how to fight the influence of leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, according to a secret US embassy cable.
The US government hopes to develop a closer relationship with the Mexican military as a result of Mexico’s “war on drugs” and international humanitarian operations, according to US diplomatic cables.
Some 15,000 protesters blocked access to the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City to demand smaller allocations for the security forces in the budget and more for social development.
Mexican authorities fear retaliatory violence after the killing of Gulf Cartel kingpin Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén AKA “Tony Tormenta” in a three-hour shootout with soldiers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, on Nov. 5. Three cartel gunmen, two members of the security forces… Read moreMexico: retaliation feared after slaying of Gulf Cartel kingpin
The Mexican government announced that it had put two federal police agents “at the disposal” of officials investigating the shooting of a college student near a university campus in Ciudad Juárez.
Police in the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Villahermosa rescued at least 23 Honduran undocumented immigrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom after crossing from Guatemala.
In Mexico’s third mass shooting in less than a week, gunmen opened fire at a carwash in Tepic, capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, killing at least 15—including 13 workers and two bystanders.
Two unidentified men shot and killed Catarino Torres Pereda, general secretary of the Citizen Defense Committee (Codeci), at the group’s office in Tuxtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca.
