Tens of thousands of laid-off Mexican electrical workers and their supporters again took to the streets of the capital to protest President Felipe Calderón’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 Calderón.
A Mexican judge ruled that evidence the government presented against activist Juan Manuel Martínez 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.”
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.
