The US Department of Justice announced that Mexico’s extradition of 11 fugitives to the United States the previous day has brought the number of extraditions this year to a record 100.
Staging raids across 19 states, the Justice Department claimed a major blow against the stateside networks of Mexico’s cultish “La Familia Michoacana” drug cartel.
A UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the dangers facing rights activists in Mexico found 128 cases of aggression from January 2006 to August 2009, including 10 murders.
At least 150,000 joined a Mexico City march to protest the seizure by soldiers and federal police of the Central Light and Power Company and the sacking of 43,000 employees.
Mexican soldiers occupied facilities of the Central Light and Power Company as President Felipe CalderĂłn liquidated the company and terminated some 43,000 employees.
Prosecutors in Guadalajara have filed charges against two suspected members of a an armed gang that carried out a raid on a jeweler while disguised in clown costumes.
Mexican Electrical Workers Union members are guarding the facilities of the Central Light and Power Company amid claims of a government plot to provoke a blackout and blame the workers.
The Canada-based Linear Gold Corp. ceded to pressure from indigenous communities who oppose plans to exploit gold and silver deposits at Ixhuatán in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas.
Internationally-known Mexican environmentalist and forest defender Felipe Arreaga was killed while driving his ATV in Petatlan, Guerrero.
Taking a cue from Argentina’s Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, relatives of disappeared persons staged a loud demonstration in Tijuana.
Gunmen massacred 16 at a drug rehab center in Ciudad Juárez, while the state sub-secretary for Citizen Protection was killed in a drive-by attack in Michoacán.
Three major Canadian, Mexican and US labor federations responded to “Tres Amigos” summit with a joint statement harshly criticizing NAFTA.
