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?
On a visit to Mexico City April 29, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Congress to approve the pending $500 million anti-drug program for Mexico, telling reporters, “Failure to do so would be a real slap at Mexico and would… Read moreGates presses Congress on Plan Mexico
On April 25, Mexican federal legislators of the three political parties that make up the Broad Progressive Front (FAP) ended their 16-day occupation of the congressional chambers after a deal was worked out with representatives of the ruling National Action… Read moreOccupation of Mexico’s Congress chambers ends âfor now
A series of early-morning gun battles between presumed narco-gangsters in the busy streets of Tijuanaâincluding one outside a hospitalâleft 15 dead and seven wounded April 26. Authorities are not releasing any of the names of the dead, but the local… Read moreMexican media speculate on Tijuana bloodbath
George Bush, Felipe CalderĂłn and Stephen Harper, in their statement emanating from New Orleans Summit on the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreeement (dubbed the “Three Amigos” Summit) said they are “committed to democratic government, the rule of law and respect… Read moreNAFTA partners extend SPP at “Three Amigos” summit
After an eight-month strike, the Grupo Mexico mining company has started to shut down its San Martin copper, silver and zinc mine in Sombrerete municipality in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas, according to Jesus JimĂ©nez, a delegate in Zacatecas… Read moreMexico: bosses end strike, close mine
Which is worse: that Absolut vodka is commodifying Mexico’s claim to its lost northern territories (Aztlan), or the predictable uptight gringo backlash? From the Daily 49er, the Cal State Long Beach student newspaper, April 15: Mexican booze ad not intoxicating… Read moreMadison Avenue exploits Mexican irredentism
James McKinley reports for the New York Times April 16 that cartel wars for control of Ciudad JuĂĄrez are reaping a “Wild West Blood Bath” in the border city, with more than 210 lives lost in the first three months… Read more“Wild West bloodbath” in Ciudad JuĂĄrez
Two announcers of the radio station “La Voz que Rompe el Silencio” (the Voice that Breaks the Silence) were assassinated on April 7 while traveling by car in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, according to the civil society organization… Read moreOaxaca: community radio activists assassinated
