Our June issue featured the stories “The ‘Colombianization’ of Chihuahua” and “Mexico’s Resurgent Guerillas,” both from Frontera NorteSur. They noted escalating narco-war violence throughout Mexico, growing talk of military intervention in Washington, and the re-emergence of a guerilla insurgency in… Read moreMexico’s destabilization: our readers write
As armed violence left several dead across Mexico this week, President Felipe Calder贸n said the country is at an “historic crossroads” in the war on the narco gangs.
Riot police were called in after local residents in the Mexican village of Xico blocked roads for several days to prevent construction of a cellphone tower.
Gunmen in Morelia, Michoac谩n, tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting, as paramedics ran for their lives.
Mexico has mobilized 5,000 more troops to Chihuahua’s dope-growing “Tri谩ngulo Dorado” to hunt down opium and marijuana crops, as confused narco-violence continue to spread across the country.
Mexican authorities have arrested five men linked to the Zetas narco gang in the assassination of Torre贸n newspaper reporter Eliseo Barr贸n.
Having already confiscated their assault rifles, authorities in Nuevo Leon state are barring Monterrey police from carrying cellphones to keep them from communicating with narco bosses.
A march was held in Ciudad Ju谩rez to honor Dr. Manuel Arroyo Galvan, 44, a sociology professor who was shot to death in broad daylight in the latest violent outrage in the border city.
Baja California announced that Colombian National Police specialists will provide anti-kidnapping training to state law enforcement officials.
Some 100 residents of seven rural communities in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco blocked access to the Madrefil-1 oil well to demand compensation for damage to their lands.
In an operation involving hundreds of Mexican soldiers and federal police, a total of 27 mayors and public officials were arrested in President Felipe Calder贸n’s home state, Michoac谩n.
Enrique Torres, leader of ejidatarios (communal farmers) who led blockades of mining operations for two weeks last year in Huizopa, Chihuahua, was arrested by state police.
