Category: Mexico
May 26, 2015 > Staff
Mexican Authorities Stand by Official Version of Deadly Shootout
Top Story — Mexican authorities on Monday reaffirmed their earlier statement that a shootout Friday between federal police officers and suspected criminal gunmen was a legitimate engagement, in which not […] Read More >
May 15, 2015 > Staff
Mexican Government Reportedly Drafting Sweeping Land Reforms
Top Story — The administration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is drafting legislation to give foreign investors and private companies more leverage over rural landowners, according to government sources […] Read More >
May 4, 2015 > Staff
Mexican Military Helicopter Shot Down Over Jalisco State
Top Story — A Mexican military helicopter was shot down on Friday by gunmen seemingly affiliated to the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), highlighting the group’s increased prominence as a […] Read More >
April 30, 2015 > Levi Vonk
Migrants on Activist Pilgrimage Dodge Police, Gangs Across Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Ciudad Tecún Umán is sweltering. All of the town’s households and its handful of ramshackle cantinas still use wood-burning stoves, their sweaty attendants braving the compounded afternoon […] Read More >
April 28, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
In New York, Protesters Against Police Brutality Embrace Families of Mexico’s Missing Students
NEW YORK — Seven months to the day after watching two of his classmates get shot in the head and many more get taken away — never to be heard […] Read More >
April 23, 2015 > Staff
Mexican Teenager Wrongly Sent to US Is Returned Home
Top Story — Alondra Luna Nuñez, a 14-year old Mexican girl, was returned to her home Wednesday after Mexican authorities had sent her last week to live in the United […] Read More >
April 20, 2015 > Staff
Mexican Authorities Arrest Cartel Leaders, Sparking Border Violence
Top Story — Mexico’s government on Sunday announced the arrest of the accused leader of the Juárez drug cartel, just days after apprehending the head of the Gulf cartel, an […] Read More >
April 12, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Great Reads Round-Up: April 6-12
As Colombian Oil Money Flowed to Clintons, State Department Took No Action to Prevent Labor Violations Matthew Cunningham-Cook, David Sirota and Andrew Perez. International Business Times. April 8, 2015. (2,695 […] Read More >
April 8, 2015 > Staff
Gunmen Ambush Mexico Police, Killing 15
An ambush by criminal gunmen against police in the western Mexican state of Jalisco killed 15 officers and injured five, authorities announced on Tuesday — the deadliest attack targeting the […] Read More >
April 3, 2015 > Staff
Dozens of Dogs Killed in Mexico at Hands of “Mataperros”
Top Story — At least 64 dogs in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo have been killed by the same poison in a crime that has shocked the city of […] Read More >