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.
Mexico’s once-hegemonic political machine, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), reaped gains in gubernatorial races, with voters disillusioned by escalating narco-violence.
A five-member panel of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) announced that it had decided by a four-to-one vote to release campesino activist Ignacio del Valle Medina and 11 others.
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.
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 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’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.
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.
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.
