The largest surge ever in legal and unauthorized Mexican migration to the US began after the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, according to sociologist James W. Russell, who studied migration patterns between 1910 and 2008… Read moreNAFTA boosted Mexican immigration: study
Farmers in Mexico’s Chihuahua state blocked roads and occupied the offices of the Agriculture Secretariat to demand the government reduce the price of diesel fuel.
A man arrested by Mexican federal police in Tijuana says he disposed of 300 bodies for a narco gang by dissolving them in chemicals. Meanwhile, more severed heads were discovered in Guanajuato and Juárez.
Amnesty International is calling for urgent action in the case of Rubén Valencia Núñez, an activist with the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO), who survived an assassination attempt last week.
Tarahumara communities in Chihuahua and the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas are both mobilizing to protect traditional lands from mega-scale tourism development projects.
Mexican officials denied claims in a US Joint Operations Command report that country is in danger of becoming a “failed state”—while Barry McCaffrey, Newt Gingrich and others called for beefing up military aid to fight Mexico’s cartels.
A study by the US Joint Forces Command names Pakistan and Mexico as two states at risk of “rapid and sudden collapse.”
Thousands marched in Jalisco to protest the police killing of 21-year-old Fernando Lopez Alejandre, bassist with the band Arcadia Libre.
Thousands of fishermen in Mexico went on strike last week to protest the rise in the cost of diesel fuel, which they say has reduced their profit margin to zero. The strike, dubbed “Zero Fishing 2009,” was declared in the… Read moreMexico: fishermen strike over fuel prices
The US is the major weapons supplier to Mexico’s bloody drug cartels, according to a report the Mexican Cabinet submitted to President Felipe Calderón.
During a live broadcast the night of Jan. 6, at least five masked gunmen riding in two pickup trucks fired high-caliber weapons and tossed a grenade outside the studios of the Televisa network in Monterrey, in the northern Mexican state… Read moreMexico: narcos wage terror campaign against media
On Dec. 26 supporters of Mexico’s rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) began the “World Festival of Dignified Rage” in the Federal District (DF, Mexico City). The series of events marks 15 years since the mostly indigenous group took the… Read moreMexico: EZLN celebrates 15 years
