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 Juárez, México, 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 troops—days 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 Jerónimo Gámez AKA “El Primo” to a prison in western Nayarit state.
On the eve of his Mexico trip, President Obama moved to impose financial penalties on three Mexican drug cartels: the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Zetas and La Familia Michoacana.
Protesters gathered outside the Hotel Presidente Intercontinental in Mexico City as US President Obama arrived to deliver a letter demanding rights for immigrants in the United States.
Mexican lawmakers opened a debate on the legalization of marijuana as a possible strategy to tackle the country’s powerful drug cartels—sparking harsh criticisms from the DEA.
Fox News, echoing the claims of the Gun Lobby, challenges the charge of Mexican ambassador Arturo Sarukhan that “90% of all weapons we are seizing in Mexico are coming from the United States.”
