The Mexican government has decided to impede social protest, and for that reason it has trained police corps, according to a general and human rights defender, who explains that even the Mexican Army has began fulfilling police functions. The general says the military is trained in crowd control, with a Manual of Civil Disturbances. These […]

Activists and parents of the missing teacher’s college students say the Mexican government is preparing large-scale repression against them, because intelligence agencies are following them and trying to tie them to criminal groups. The family members, who reject the official version put out by the government, that their children were killed and burned to ashes […]

Imprisoned community police leader Nestora Salgado may be freed soon in Mexico, along with other political prisoners, after the governor of Guerrero has agreed to intervene. This is the state pressing charges against Nestora. In the US, legislators and legal experts urge the State Department to push Mexico to get Nestora released and allow her […]

In memory of 43 students gone missing in September and two students killed in 2011, relatives and students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher’s College in Mexico returned as every year to the Mexico-Acapulco freeway, the scene of one of the tragedies. After a forensic report identified bone fragments as corresponding to teacher’s-college student Alexander Mora Venancio, […]

The state government of Sonora, in Northern Mexico, has built an aqueduct to siphon off waters of the Yaqui River to supply industry and other urban uses. The traditional authorities of the Yaqui Tribe are asserting their historic and legal rights to the water of the Yaqui Basin, the largest river system in the state. […]

In response to the continuous protests for the past two months for the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa, the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto proposes changes to the Constitution, limiting the right to free demonstrations and allowing military occupation of any territory, displacing even elected officials, explains the specialist in constitutional law, Jaime Cárdenas Gracia. […]

The U.S. and Mexico have signed a security cooperation agreement to fight drug trafficking, organized crime and money laundering. The controversial agreement called Merida Initiative or Plan Mexico is today the target of coordinated protests around the US from critics. They claim US funding is helping promote police corruption, impunity, and more violence. This edition […]

According to information filtered to journalist José Antonio Rivera, some of the missing teacher’s college students are in the mountains of the Eastern Sierra Madre, in an impenetrable area controlled by paramilitary groups. According to the reporter’s sources, the students are working as slaves, refining opium gum, after having worked in the Carrizalillo gold mine. […]