At the 47th US-Mexico Interparliamentary Commission, held June 6 in Monterrey, Nuevo LeĂłn, Mexican politicians from all of the three leading parties protested the imposition of human rights conditions on aid recently approved by Washington under the MĂ©rida Initiative, popularly… Read moreMexican lawmakers oppose MĂ©rida Initiative rights conditions
On June 4, a detachment of some 200 Mexican army troops and federal police in a convoy of ten vehicles led by an armored personnel carrier occupied several communities around the Zapatista settlement of La Garrucha, on the edge of… Read moreChiapas: army occupies Zapatista communities in “anti-drug” ops
On May 24, campesinos from Ejido Huizopa, Madera municipality, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, launched a protest occupation of the Minera Dolores company’s giant open-pit gold mine, which they say has been illegally established on their lands. The… Read moreMexico: campesinos occupy Chihuahua gold mine
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 —one 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 Juárez 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 Juárez 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 —for now
Juan Antonio Román GarcĂa, second highest ranking police commander in Ciudad Juárez, 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
