Zapotec campesino leader Pablo López Alavés of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca “Ricardo Flores Magón” (CIPO-RFM) is facing assault charges following an apparently illegal arrest.
Six city police officers were arrested in connection with the killing of a mayor in a suburb of Monterrey, in northern Mexico. Santiago Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos had reportedly received threats form narco gangs.
The Mexican government’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued recommendations in the case of two graduate students killed during a gunfight between soldiers and alleged drug cartel members.
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) decided by a 9-2 vote that same-sex marriages performed in the Federal District (DF, Mexico City) are valid in all the country’s states.
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) upheld a law enacted in the Federal District (DF, or Mexico City) last December recognizing same-sex marriages.
The long-ruling PRI lost its hold on power in Oaxaca last month, but violence is escalating in the state’s Mixtec region, where PRI-linked paramilitary groups terrorize peasant communities.
Mexican army Special Forces troops killed Ignacio Coronel Villarreal AKA “Nacho”—a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. But the cartel’s top kingpin, JoaquÃn Guzmán AKA “El Chapo,” remains at large.
Nuevo León state police uncovered a total of 51 bodies from a clandestine narcofosa (“narco-grave”) in a garbage dump outside Monterrey—the biggest such find among numerous in recent months.
After 90 days, a mass hunger strike by laid-off electrical workers in the center of Mexico City came to an end on July 23 following a preliminary agreement between the government and the union.
A new report from the General Accounting Office finds that only 9% of the $1.6 billion pledged by Washington to Mexico and Central America for drug enforcement has been delivered.
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled against a suit by the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) challenging President Calderón’s liquidation of the Central Light and Power Company.
Mexican police foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in Latin America, arresting a cell operative in Tijuana, the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Seyassah reported.
