Special forces from the Mexican military killed top kingpin Arturo Beltrán Leyva in a firefight in Cuernavaca. The local human rights commission reports one by-stander was also killed.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace finds that Mexico’s annual per capital growth rate under NAFTA has been slow—1.6% in 1992-2007, compared to 3.5% in 1960-1979.
Amnesty International called on Mexican authorities to protect residents of disputed lands after a woman living in the Lomas de Poleo area of Chihuahua state was shot and injured.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered a sharp rebuke to Mexico, accusing it of inaction in investigating and prosecuting the murders of young women in the border city of Juárez.
Tens of thousands of laid-off Mexican electrical workers and their supporters again took to the streets of the capital to protest President Felipe CalderĂłn’s sudden liquidation of Central Light and Power.
An attacker on a motorcycle shot and killed indigenous leader and anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca outside his home in Chicomuselo, in the mountains of southern Mexico’s Chiapas state.
After missing work for several days, José Emilio Galindo Robles, the regional director for Radio Universidad de Guadalajara in Ciudad Guzmán, was found dead inside his home.
Tens of thousands of unionists, campesinos and students protested in Mexico City and across the country in solidarity with the 44,000 electrical workers sacked by President Felipe CalderĂłn.
A Mexican judge ruled that evidence the government presented against activist Juan Manuel MartĂnez for the murder of New York-based journalist Brad Will was “false” and “prefabricated.”
Business leaders in Ciudad Juárez are calling on the United Nations to send peacekeepers to police the Mexican border city in the face of escalating drug-related violence.
Margarito Montes, leader of the General Popular Worker and Campesino Union (UGOCP), was assassinated with 14 family members and comrades when their convoy was ambushed by gunmen.
The International Tribunal on Freedom of Association stated that it is “scandalized by the gravity of labor rights violations and the violence against workers that is occurring in Mexico.”
