02/09/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Is the ¨Great Violence of 2008-2012¨ returning to Ciudad Juarez?
Officially touted as having closed the chapter on the Great Violence of 2008-2012 and turning a new page in its history, Ciudad Juarez is experiencing a renewed bout of murder in public spaces. Three August murders illustrate how the violent upsurge is touching different sectors of society in the big border city.
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16/04/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Guerrero: Violence leads to Calls for Deals with Narco Gangs
As if the southern Mexican state of Guerrero didn’t have enough troubles, an obscure force [has been] stirring up a boiling cauldron even more. During the Holy Week/Easter holiday season that draws hundreds of thousands of Mexican tourists to Guerrero, a heretofore unknown group publicly unfurled three narcomantas, or narco banners, in the violence-wracked city of Iguala.
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02/04/2015 | Medio Ambiente
Mexico - What's Killing Marine Fauna along Mexico's Baja California Coast?
Dead gray whales and dolphins. Corpses of sea lions, birds and sea turtles decomposing on the beach. Since the beginning of the year, the coasts of Baja California have been the scene of multiple discoveries of dead marine animals.
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29/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Activists in Guerrero, Mexico suffer 'Extermination' Attacks
Assassin's bullets have claimed the life of another prominent rural and political leader in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
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23/09/2013 | Frente Externo
Mexico - The Escalating (yet Annual) Rebellion of Teachers in Mexico
Conflict and struggle are key words at the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year in Mexico. After a summer break, the controversy over education reform laws promoted by the Peña Nieto administration and backed by the country’s major political parties is back at center stage.
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24/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Indigenous Rights, Self-protection and Vigilantes in Mexico
In the wave of citizen uprisings against insecurity that have swept the southern Mexican state of Guerrero since the beginning of the year, fundamental issues defining the future of the nation are at stake.
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27/08/2012 | Frente Externo
US, Mexico - Conflicts Flare as to Coal Mining near the US-Mexico Border
Mexican and U.S. opponents of a planned open surface coal mine on the Texas-Tamaulipas border rallied August 10 on an international bridge between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila. Engaging in a "friendship hug" at the international line dividing their two countries, the border residents vowed to press ahead with a long-running battle against Dos Republicas Coal Partnership.
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24/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Conflicts Loom as Indigenous Mexicans Seek Rights, Oppose Mining and Logging
From north to south and east to west, indigenous communities in Mexico are standing up for environmental protection, community defense, cultural survival and self-determination.
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24/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Conflicts Loom as Indigenous Mexicans Seek Rights, Oppose Mining and Logging
From north to south and east to west, indigenous communities in Mexico are standing up for environmental protection, community defense, cultural survival and self-determination.
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