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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pemex has accused BASF, Murphy Energy and other US companies of buying stolen natural gas condensate from Mexican bandits, according to a lawsuit filed in Houston federal court.
Two indigenous Mexican women were released from prison after serving more than three and a half years of a 21-year sentence for allegedly kidnapping six federal agents.
Laredo police made their largest weapons seizure in 10 years after pulling over a truck laden with 147 brand new assault rifles and 10,000 rounds of ammo that they believe was headed to Mexico.
