In the wake of the financial crisis and Swine Flue scare, Mexico has lost 300,000 jobs, leading ex-finance secretary JosĂ© Ăngel GurrĂa Treviño to warn, “this isn’t a cycle, it’s a disaster.”
Nearly a week after dozens of inmates walked out of a prison in Zacatecas, the central Mexican state’s top security official, Public Security Secretary Alejandro Rojas Chalico, resigned.
Relatives of a group of men ordered detained for 30 days in connection with the dramatic jailbreak at a high-security prison in Mexico’s Zacatecas state blocked a federal highway.
Despite the cancellation of the official May Day parade as a measure to combat the spread of “Swine Flu,” some 200 workers marched in Ciudad JuĂĄrez to protest Mexico’s neoliberal reforms.
The Mexican military is failing to hold its members accountable for human rights abuses, according to a report released this week by Human Rights Watch.
The mothers of three young women who were tortured, raped, and brutally murdered in Ciudad JuĂĄrez, MĂ©xico, in 2001 testified before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Santiago, Chile.
Miners blocked roads and port facilities in Mexico to protest the firing of hundreds of striking workers at the giant Cananea copper mine in northern Sonora state.
The local Good Government Junta (JBG) of the Zapatista rebels at Morelia, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, issued a statement April 23 charging that Gov. Juan Sabines Guerrero “is determined to be a humiliating repressor who does not respect… Read moreChiapas: Zapatistas protest renewed repression
Two new reports charge Mexican and other Latino migrants continue facing a host of human rights violations and labor abuses in Canada and the United States.
Members of the Piedras Negras police force in the Mexican border state of Coahuila staged an overnight strike to protest the new policies of an ex-colonel who assumed command of the force.
Isaac Manuel Godoy Castro, a mid-level Tijuana Cartel operative wanted in the US, was arrested by Mexican army troopsâdays after a shoot-out in Guerrero state left 13 dead.
Eight Mexican federal officers were killed in an attack on a police convoy transporting Sinaloa Cartel kingpin JerĂłnimo GĂĄmez AKA “El Primo” to a prison in western Nayarit state.
