Violence continues to escalate in the conflicted northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. At least 25 were killed as soldiers stormed a training camp allegedly set up by Los Zetas in Ciudad Mier.
World oil prices remain depressed despite an uptick this month, driven by the Venezuela crisis and fear of US-China trade war. Yet this month also saw Zimbabwe explode into angry protests over fuel prices. The unrest was sparked when the government doubled prices, in an effort to crack down on "rampant" illegal trading. Simultaneously, long lines at gas stations are reported across Mexico—again due to a crackdown on illegal petrol trafficking. Despite all the talk in recent years about how low oil prices are now permanent (mirrored, of course, in the similar talk 10 years ago about how high prices were permanent), the crises in Zimbabwe and Mexico may be harbingers of a coming global shock. (Photo via Amnesty International)
Two car bombs exploded in Ciudad Victoria, capital of Mexico’s conflicted Tamaulipas state, as authorities investigate the massacre of 72 migrant laborers at a ranch near the US border.
Mexico’s Navy found 72 bodies on a ranch near the US border in Tamaulipas state. The dead are apparently migrants from Central and South America slain in a massacre by Los Zetas.
The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge in the south-central Mexican city of Cuernavaca. The Beltran Leyva Cartel claimed responsibility in a message left with the bodies.
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, Joaquín Guzmán AKA “El Chapo,” remains at large.
