Lawmakers in Mexico’s lower-house Chamber of Deputies Feb. 26 removed a draconian measure from their plan to reform the country’s judicial system that would have given police the power to enter homes without first obtaining a warrant in emergencies and… Read moreMexico’s “gestapo law” defeated
In a communique made public on Feb. 21, Mexico’s rebel Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) denied any connection to the Jan. 30 shooting death of police director Alejandro Barrita Ortiz, a bodyguard and two civilians in the southern state of Oaxaca…. Read moreMexico: EPR guerillas deny Oaxaca attack
The anti-immigration blog VDare (who get creds for being bilingual) approvingly note from a persual of Monterrey’s daily El Porvenir that the Monterrey suburb of San Nicolas is planning to build a security fence on its border with the neighboring… Read moreSecurity fences go up —within Mexico
A delegation of striking miners from Grupo Mexico’s Cananea copper mine in Sonora, Mexico, and of leaders from the US-based United Steelworkers (USW) visited the Capitol in Washington, DC on Feb. 13, to ask the US Congress to withhold a… Read moreMexico: Cananea strikers take message to Capitol Hill
Some 70,000 teachers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca suspended classes on Feb. 14 to participate in rallies in Oaxaca city and other cities; the rallies were organized by Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE)… Read moreMexico: Oaxaca teachers protest
On Feb. 13, Mexico’s El Economista reported that the Mexican Senate’s Energy Commission, led by Juan Bueno Torio of President Felipe CalderĂłn‘s conservative National Action Party (PAN), has called for a “special program of private investment” for Pemex, the state… Read moreMexico broaches oil privatization —almost
A lunchtime blast that killed one and injured two on Chapultepec Ave. in the Roma district near Mexico City’s tony Zona Rosa Feb. 15 was the work of narco gangs and not leftist guerillas, authorities say. Federal District police say… Read moreNarcos, not guerillas behind Mexico City blast
In a new report, Human Rights Watch charges that Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) is adept at documenting abuses—but has failed to prevent them. Said HRW Americas director Jose Miguel Vivanco: “While it does a decent job documenting abuses… Read moreMexico: HRW blasts National Human Rights Commission
On Feb. 11, ski-masked gunmen stopped a bus on the road between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Ocosingo in the conflicted southern Mexican state of Chiapas, threatening passengers and robbing them of cameras, cell phones, ID documents and other… Read moreChiapas: paramilitaries freed from prison —attack bus route?
Lorenzo Fernández Ortega, a 38-year-old bricklayer and member of the Organization of the Indigenous Mepha’a People (OPIM), was stabbed to death Feb. 10 in Ayutla de los Libres, a village in the conflicted Mexican state of Guerrro. The group had… Read moreMexico: paramilitaries assassinate indigenous activist in Guerrero
A group of five men armed with AK-47 and AR-15 rifles and 9mm pistols shot and killed Alejandro Barrita Ortiz, director of the Auxiliary, Industrial, Bank and Commercial Police for the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, on Jan. 30 as… Read moreMexico: Oaxaca top cop shot
Local schoolteacher Felipe Hernández Yuena was detained Feb. 5 in the municipal government building at Venustiano Carranza, a conflicted town in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, accused of “sedition and riot.” Showing bruises on his face, arms and abdomen,… Read moreDetentions, torture and violence in Chiapas
