Juan Manuel Martínez, 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 Calderón’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.
Hundreds of Ciudad Juárez residents held a “March of Anger” against President Felipe Calderón’s army crackdown that has failed to curb rampant gang killings in the border city.
Gunmen killed six at a nightclub in the Mexican beach resort of Mazatlán, as six more decapitated bodies were found in an SUV in a town in Michoacán state.
The White House asked Congress for $410 million in Merida Initiative drug war aid to Mexico and Central America for FY 2011, despite ongoing concerns about human rights.
Sharp debate over the direction of Mexico’s narco war has broken out in the country’s Congress in the wake of twin massacres in Ciudad Juárez and Torreón last weekend.
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 José 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.
