Presumed narco-gunmen blocked highways in the area of Mexico’s northern industrial hub of Monterrey, seizing cars, buses and ambulances from motorists and using them to clog the lanes.
At least 15 people were killedâfour of them beheaded and left in public placesâin Acapulco, part of a wave of violence that left 29 dead in 24 hours around Mexico’s Guerrero state.
There were celebrations in Mexico City’s downtown Alameda park as 31 same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses under a new law that took effect in the Federal District.
Municipal police in a suburb of Mexico’s northern industrial hub of Monterrey staged protests outside their precinct stations after three were killed in an ambush.
The Latin America and Caribbean Unity Summit in CancĂșn ended with an agreement to form a provisionally named “Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.”
A Mexican judge upheld a 21-year prison term for two indigenous women charged with “kidnapping” six federal agents. Amnesty International says the women were “framed.”
Forced displacements by federal police of peasant settlements in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve follow a new initiative to establish biofuel production in Chiapas.
The US closed its consular office in the border city of Reynosa citing local narco-violence, as killings, abductions, torture and beaheadings were reported across Mexico.
Juan Manuel MartĂnez, accused of killing New York independent journalist Brad Will, was released from prison in Oaxaca after a judge found there was no evidence against him.
Hooded gunmen stormed the pueblo of San Vicente Camalote in southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state and killed 13 people in attacks on a ranch and a police checkpoint.
Critics of Mexican President Felipe CalderĂłn’s so-called Drug War charge he is favoring the Sinaloa Cartel, cracking down on its rivals and allowing it to consolidate power.
Mexican unions announced their intention to hold a general strike in 25 of the country’s 32 states if the government attempts to remove striking workers from the Cananea copper mine.
