Mexico has mobilized 5,000 more troops to Chihuahua’s dope-growing “Triángulo 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 Torreón newspaper reporter Eliseo Barrón.
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 Juárez 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 Calderón’s home state, Michoacán.
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.
In the wake of the financial crisis and Swine Flue scare, Mexico has lost 300,000 jobs, leading ex-finance secretary José Ángel Gurría 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 Juárez to protest Mexico’s neoliberal reforms.
