Mexico: Pride event remembers Carlos Monsivais

The 32nd annual Pride march in the Mexican capital began with a moment of silence for journalist and activist Carlos Monsivais, who died on June 19 at the age of 72.

Mexico: activist seeks asylum at Venezuelan embassy

Mexican campesino rights activist América del Valle, leader of the land defense committee at the village of San Salvador Atenco, applied for political asylum at the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico City.

Mexican singer gunned down hours after denying his own murder

Mexican singer Sergio “El Shaka” Vega was shot dead hours after he issued a statement denying reports of his murder. Vega was on his way to a concert when gunmen fired on his red Cadillac.

Mexico: labor, left denounce “solution” at Cananea mine

Mexico’s independent labor movement reacted angrily to the government’s use of hundreds of police agents to break a three-year strike at the giant Cananea copper mine in northern Sonora state.

Mexico: mayor who stood up to cartels assassinated

Gunmen shot and killed Jesús Manuel Lara, mayor of the Mexican border town of Guadalupe and an outspoken opponent of the drug cartels’ reign of terror, as his wife and child watched.

Mexico: mass “narco-graves” found in Cancún

Mexican army troops and Quintana Roo state police discovered 12 bodies in four cenotes (natural wells) near the Cancún airport—presumed victims of Los Zetas.

Mexico: 200 dead in one week of narco-violence

More than 200 people have been killed over the past seven days in Mexico’s most violent week since President Felipe Calderón unleashed federal forces against the country’s warring drug cartels.

Mexico: 44 killed in police ambushes, prison riot

Violence in Mexico claimed the lives of 15 federal police officers and 29 prison inmates in three separate incidents in Michoacán, Culiacán and Ciudad Juárez.

US military has “boots on the ground” in Mexico?

Narco News quotes an alleged former CIA asset who says that a secret US Special Forces unit dubbed Task Force 7 has been operating in Ciudad Juárez for the past year.

Mexico: 39 killed in Chihuahua, Tamaulipas violence

Narco-violence claimed 39 lives in two northern Mexico states, as gunmen executed 19 at a Chihuahua rehab center and left 20 tortured bodies around Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas.

Mexico protests “disproportionate” use of force in Border Patrol killing

Mexican and US authorities are investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who was shot near the Juárez-El Paso crossing, apparently by a US Border Patrol agent.

Mexico: police attack striking workers at Cananea mine

As many as 2,000 Mexican police, supported by helicopters, invaded the Cananea copper mine in Sonora, firing tear gas and attacking and beating workers who were defending the mine.