In Mexico’s first major demonstration of 2010, thousands of unionists and campesinos marched on the capital’s main plaza, continuing a tradition of annual protests against NAFTA.
Ciudad Juárez Mayor JosĂ© Reyes Ferriz announced that the city is calling on artists across Mexico to submit proposals for a monument to memorialize the city’s murdered women.
Gunmen burst into a party and killed 14 high school students in Juárez. The 24 hours before the massacre had been one of the most violent on record in the conflicted border city.
A riot at the notoriously harsh Durango prison known as Social Readaption Center (CERESEO) No. 1 left 23 inmates dead. Army troops were sent in to put down the violence.
Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat announced the mobilization of 860 army troops to Tijuana in anticipation of reprisals following the capture of kingpin Teodoro GarcĂa Simental.
The body of José Luis Romero, a Mexican journalist kidnapped in December, was found on a roadside in Sinaloa state. Romero covered police and crime issues for a local radio station.
Severed heads and mutilated bodies with threatening “narco-massages” were found in Juárez and Los Mochis, as a shoot-out left one soldier and three narco-gunmen dead in Michoacán.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission issued a harsh “recommendation” to Guerrero Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca in the unsolved case of two indigenous leaders kidnapped last year.
A judge in Oaxaca issued an order giving the federal government 10 days to release activist Juan Manuel MartĂnez Moreno, held since October for the murder of journalist Brad Will.
In a first for a Latin American city, Mexico City’s legislature voted 39-20 to permit same-sex marriage. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard is expected to sign the bill.
José Alberto Velázquez López, owner of the Mexican newspaper Expresiones de Tulum, was shot by a gunman on a motorcycle, bringing to 12 the number of reporters killed this year in the country.
Gunmen attacked the home of the family of the Mexican marine killed in the gun-battle that also claimed the life of kingpin Arturo Beltrán Leyva, killing his mother, brother, sister and aunt.
