52% of the national police force in Mexico has not been submitted to “confidence” tests
09/29/10 – According to data provided by the federal Secretariat of Public Security (Secretaría de Seguridad Pública), more than half of the active police force at the national level has not been subjected to confidence control tests. Of the 427,354 agents that compose all the government levels, in only 206,298 of the cases was “trustworthiness” … Read more
Mayor of Tancítaro, Michoacán, murdered
09/28/10 – Gustavo Sánchez Cervantes, who was named president of the Tancítaro City Council (presidente del Concejo Municipal de Tancítaro) last December after the local government resigned under pressure from organized crime, was murdered along with his secretary, Councilman Rafael Equihua. Their bodies were found around 10:30 on Monday near the town of Angahua in … Read more
Community members of Ascensión kill two kidnappers
09/24/10 – On Tuesday of this week, two kidnappers, both of which were minors, were killed by an estimated 400 members of the Ascensión community in the state of Chihuahua. Federal Police and Army elements were able to rescue the individuals before the multitude managed to beat the young boys to death. However, the crowd … Read more
Arrest warrant issued against César Godoy Toscano, a Chamber of Deputies representative
09/23/10 – As of Tuesday the Federal Police (Policía Federal – FP) and the Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduría General de la República – PGR) implemented a security operation at the San Lázaro Legislative Palace in order to detain Rep. Julio César Godoy Toscano of the Democratic Revolution Party (Partido de la Revolución Democrática –PRD) for … Read more
Jalisco: Commander for State Attorney General’s Office shot to death
09/22/10 – Yesterday morning a commander for the State Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado) was shot to death on the streets of the Pacífico neighborhood in the municipality of El Salto in Jalisco. Minutes before 08:00 hours investigating officer Jesús González González was intercepted at the cross section of Emiliano Zapata … Read more
Supreme Court Justice dies
09/21/10 – Justice José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación – SCJN) passed away this weekend after suffering a heart attack while on vacation in the city of Londres, England. He was 67-years-old at the time of his death. … Read more
Two news photographers shot; one dead
09/17/10 – Yesterday evening unidentified gunman shot and killed news photographer, Luís Carlos Santiago Orozco of 21-years-old, and critically wounded photographer Carlos Sánchez. Both men worked for the news agency El Diario of Juárez and were taking a lunch break together at the time of the attack. The attack occurred around 14:35 hours in plane … Read more
Guanajuato Congress approves new justice sector reforms to be completed in 2015
09/15/10 – In August, Guanajuato’s Congress approved sweeping justice sector reforms, becoming the eighth Mexican state to do so, behind Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Zacatecas, Durango, Baja California, and Mexico State. Aside from the movement to an accusatorial justice system based around a professionalized police force, oral trials, and adherence to human rights standards, Guanajuato’s … Read more
Mexican journalist seeks political asylum in U.S. after being kidnapped and released
09/15/10 – On July 23, 2010, four journalists were kidnapped in the state of Durango. One week later, two of the reporters were released following negotiations with the Sinaloa cartel; the remaining two were later rescued by the federal police. This week, one of the four journalists kidnapped then, Televisa cameraman Alejandro Hernández Pacheco, stated … Read more
Chihuahua passes reforms for the creation of a new State Attorney General’s office
09/14/10 – Chihuahuas State Congress approved, almost unanimously, a packet of reforms for the creation of a new State Attorney General’s office (Fiscalía General del Estado), in which the current Office of the Attorney General of Chihuahua (Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado – PGJE), the Secretariat of Public Security (Secretaría de Seguridad Pública estatal … Read more
