Mexico: electrical workers maintain hunger strike

Five participants in an open-ended hunger strike by dozens of laid-off Mexican electrical workers were hospitalized as the protest reached the four-week mark.

Oaxaca: Triqui indigenous leader assassinated

Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, leader of the Triqui indigenous “autonomous municipality” of San Juan Copala in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, was killed by an “armed commando” along with his wife.

Calderón scolds US on guns, immigration; Fox News slaps back

Mexican President Felipe Calderón, speaking at the US Congress, urged reinstatement of the assault-weapon ban, saying violence in Mexico escalated when it expired six years ago.

More claims: Mexican government tilts to Sinaloa Cartel

In a harrowing report from Juárez, National Public Radio provides further evidence that the Mexican government is tilting to the Sinaloa Cartel in the country’s increasingly violent narco wars.

Mexico: general shot in presumed “mugging” linked to cartels, “dirty war”?

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 Juárez Cartel.

Mexico: narcos declare open season on politicians

Former Mexican presidential candidate and a leader of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) Diego Fernández de Cevallos was declared missing, in an attack being blamed on narco gangs.

Mexico: women’s groups call for Cancún boycott

An association of 90 groups held a rally in Mexico City to call for a boycott of the seaside resort city of Cancún as a protest against Quintana Roo state’s anti-choice policies.

Mexico extradites ex-governor as cartel crackdown widens

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 Juárez Cartel.

Mexico: army exonerates itself in Tamaulipas atrocity

A Mexican military investigation found that three children killed on a highway in Tamaulipas were caught in the crossfire of rival narco gangs—but survivors say soldiers fired without cause.

Mexico: May Day marchers blast labor “reform”

As has become traditional, rival Mexican union confederations celebrated International Workers Day on May 1 with separate rallies in Mexico City’s huge Zócalo plaza.

Oaxaca: two dead as paras attack human rights caravan

Two are dead and at least five missing after a paramilitary ambush on a human rights caravan in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Mexico: US consulate in Nuevo Laredo closed following attack

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.