07/30/12 (written by octaviusrod)- The Federal Investigation Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigación, AFI) officially disbanded on Thursday, July 26, with the Federal Ministerial Police (Policia Federal Ministerial, PFM) assuming operations […]
7/30/2012 – On Monday, July 30, the Justice in Mexico Project at the Trans-Border Institute released a new report titled Armed with Impunity: Curbing Military Human Rights Abuses in Mexico, which […]
07/24/2012 – Last week, Governor Mario López Valdez of Sinaloa presented the head of the Secretary of National Defense (Secretaría de Defensa Nacional, Sedena), Guillermo Galván Galván, with a surprising proposal […]
07/24/12 (written by cmolzahn) – Mexican President Felipe Calderón is blocking the passage of the new Victims’ Law (Ley de Víctimas), approved by the Mexican Congress in April. Calderón has […]
07/20/12 – Over the last two weeks, citizens of Cherán–a semi-autonomous municipality in the state of Michoacán populated by members of the Purépecha indigenous group–have mobilized a series of demonstrations […]
