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
Mexican authorities announced Dec. 30 the arrest of Alberto Espinoza Barron AKA “La Fresa” (the Strawberry), reputed head of the “Michoacán Family“—the drug cartel accused of setting off two grenades during an Independence Day celebration in September, killing eight people… Read moreMexico: bloody New Year despite arrest of kingpin
A member of Mexico’s presidential guard was reportedly arrested as a spy for the Beltran Leyva crime machine (Sinaloa Cartel) Dec. 26. An anonymous official of the federal prosecutor’s office identified Arturo González Rodríguez as an army major who was… Read moreMexico: presidential guard, beauty queen busted in narco wars
Soldiers arrested Timoteo Mata Cruz, deputy police chief of the Mexican resort town of Zihuatanejo (Guerrero state), and six of his officers for allegedly protecting prominent narco-jefes at a cock fight Dec. 25. Fourteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva… Read moreMexico: Zihuatanejo police chief busted for protecting Sinaloa Cartel
