A team of gunmen in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco opened fire on the home of a state police officer and his extended family, killing 12 people, including six children.
Twenty-one were killed in a clash between the Mexican army and a kidnapping gang in northern Chihuahua state on Mondayâand three more in a mopping-up operation on the gang’s ranch headquarters Friday.
Ex-solider Octavio Almanza Moreles AKA “El Gori 4” and six presumed members of the Zetas narco-paramilitary were arrested in the killing an army general who was aiding the CancĂșn police force.
President Trump announced that the US and Mexico have reached an agreement on a new trade deal called the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement, which will ultimately terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump called Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto from the White House to announce the new deal. Among a number of changes to NAFTA, both parties agreed to a provision that would require a significant portion of vehicles to be made in high-wage factories, a measure aimed to discourage factory jobs from leaving the US. Trump said he is in communication with Canada about a new trade deal, but is unsure if it will be part of the US-Mexico Trade Agreement. The Trump administration expects the new pact to be signed by the end of November. (Map: CIA)
In a bid to soften the impacts of the auto industry crisis, Mexican officials are offering financial assistance to foreign-owned companies with maquiladora plants in the northern border states.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges that Mexico’s investigation into the shooting death of US journalist Brad Will presents a scientifically flawed theory that ignores PHR’s conclusive findings.
Retired army Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñones, a civilian and another soldier, found dead near the Caribbean resort of CancĂșn, were tortured before being shot, Mexican authorities report.
Mexico’s Federal Preventative Police announced the arrest of GerĂłnimo GĂĄmez GarcĂa, said to be the key middle-man between the Sinaloa Cartel and Colombian cocaine suppliers.
For the second time in a week, the streets of the Mexican border city of Reynosa hosted protestors in actions over high food and fuel prices, maquiladora lay-offs and the presence of the army in the city.
Thousands of campesinos from across Mexico blocked central avenues of the capital, while others blocked the Córdova-Las Américas bridge that links the border city of Juårez with El Paso, TX.
Turkey's TRT World runs a report recalling the Chontal Maya blockades of the Pemex oil installations in Mexico's southern state of Tabasco in 1996, to protest the pollution of their lands and waters. This is a struggle that is still being waged today by the Chontal of Tabasco, but back in 1996 the figurehead of the movement was Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO)—now Mexico's left-populist president-elect. The report asks if AMLO as president will remain true to the indigenous struggle that first put him on Mexico's political map. In a segment exploring this question, TRT World speaks with Melissa Ortiz Massó of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and CounterVortex editor Bill Weinberg.
More than 250 farmers with tractors and work trucks blockaded the entrances to Chihuahua state office buildings to protest the high cost of diesel fuel and lack of opportunity in Mexico’s agricultural sector.
