Mexican soldiers occupied facilities of the Central Light and Power Company as President Felipe Calderón 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.
Mexico’s Supreme Court overturned the sentences of 22 men who were imprisoned in the 1997 massacre of 45 indigenous peasants at Acteal in southern Chiapas state.
The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference issued a statement criticizing federal police for bursting into a Mass to apprehend an alleged cartel lieutenant.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Appropriations foreign operations subcommittee, blocked a State Department human rights report that would free $100 in Plan Mexico funds.
The Mexican newspaper Milenio finds that July was the bloodiest month in the country since President Felipe Calderón took office, with 854 killed in narco-violence.
