Retired Mexican army general Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, shot in an supposed mugging, is a veteran of counterinsurgency operations who was investigated for links to the JuĂĄrez Cartel.
Former Mexican presidential candidate and a leader of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) Diego FernĂĄndez de Cevallos was declared missing, in an attack being blamed on narco gangs.
An association of 90 groups held a rally in Mexico City to call for a boycott of the seaside resort city of CancĂșn as a protest against Quintana Roo state’s anti-choice policies.
Mario Ernesto Villanueva Madrid, ex-governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, was extradited to the US to face charges of accepting some $20 million in bribes from the JuĂĄrez Cartel.
A Mexican military investigation found that three children killed on a highway in Tamaulipas were caught in the crossfire of rival narco gangsâbut survivors say soldiers fired without cause.
As has become traditional, rival Mexican union confederations celebrated International Workers Day on May 1 with separate rallies in Mexico City’s huge ZĂłcalo plaza.
Two are dead and at least five missing after a paramilitary ambush on a human rights caravan in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Unidentified assailants threw an explosive over the fence of the US consulate in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo. The blast caused damage but no injuries.
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) announced that some 2,300 members were planning to start a mass hunger strike in Mexico City’s central plaza, the ZĂłcalo.
As of March 26 sources in the Mexican military had admitted that it was probably soldiers who killed two students the early morning of March 20 in front of a prestigious university in Monterrey.
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Top leaders from the US and Mexico agreed to emphasize intelligence coordination in the next $331 million phase of the Merida Initiative following discussions in Mexico City.
