On May 21 Jose Leopoldo Gonzalez, secretary general of the Conference of Mexican Bishops (CEM), said the Catholic bishops had voted unanimously to call for the government to make former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) testify again about the… Read moreMexico: bishops push Posadas probe
Families are desperate a year after five workers and three pensioners from the Mexican state oil company Pemex disappeared, with federal authorities claiming no progress in the case. Mexico’s opposition is pointing at the security forces. “No one seems to… Read more“Disappeared” Mexican oil workers âone year later
As part of an emergency appropriations bill, the Senate May 22 approved $350 million in drug war aid to Mexico, with an adittional $100 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Reducing the Bush administration’s request for $500… Read moreCongress scales back “Plan Mexico”
The Authentic Labor Front (FAT), an independent Mexican labor group, announced on May 13 that one of its affiliates is set to declare a strike at the Central de Abasto, Mexico City’s huge wholesale food market, on May 30. For… Read moreMexico: union attacked in capital
Ciudad JuĂĄrez Public Safety Director Guillermo Prieto submitted his resignation following a string of killings that included some of his top officers. AP May 18 cites a city spokesman saying Prieto would be replaced by a military officer on leave… Read moreMexican military to take over JuĂĄrez police?
President Bush’s $163 billion Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House May 15. Republicans expected to provide the winning margin instead sat out the vote in protest of Democratic efforts to add money for the unemployed and an expansion… Read more“Plan Mexico” dies with Iraq funding bill âfor now
Juan Antonio RomĂĄn GarcĂa, second highest ranking police commander in Ciudad JuĂĄrez, was killed May 10 when his car was sprayed with bullets outside his home. The attack came months after his name appeared at the top of a hit… Read moreMexico: open season on police commanders
Federal agents raided a Phoenix gun store May 6 in the biggest weapons bust in years. Authorities said the store was a source for at least 650 high-powered weapons, including 250 AK-47 automatic weapons, smuggled to Mexican drug cartels. The… Read moreArizona gun bust linked to Mexican cartels
On April 28 Mexico’s Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board (JFCA) ruled in favor of a nine-month old strike at Grupo Mexico’s giant copper mine at Cananea, in the northwestern state of Sonora. The ruling, which is final, makes the job… Read moreMexico: Cananea strike now legal
Nine are deadâfive agents of the Federal Preventative Police, two municipal police, and two civiliansâfollowing three shoot-outs May 2 and 3 in the Mexican city of CuliacĂĄn, Sinaloa. Four police agents were also wounded. The confrontations began when police patrols… Read moreMexico: deadly attacks on police in Sinaloa
Some 60 men riding in luxury vehicles and wearing uniforms of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) and armed with AK-47s shot nine people dead at the ranch of Rogaciano Alba Ălvarez in PetatlĂĄn May 4. Two of Alba’s sons were… Read moreMexico: deadly attacks on Guerrero cattle barons
An AP report portrays President Felipe CalderĂłn’s decision to open talks with Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) as part of his push to open the oil industry to private partnershipsâgiven the guerillas’ attacks on pipelines last year. “The government wanting to… Read moreMexico: dialogue with EPR guerillas?
