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Sergio Villarreal Barragán, “El Grande,” arrested
09/13/10 – After ten months of intelligence work, José Luis Vergara, Director of Social Communication for the Mexican Navy (Director de Comunicación Social de la SEMAR: Armada de México) has …
Mexicali Lawyers Begin Oral Advocacy Training Program
09/10/10 — In the effort to build training capacity for the operation of Mexico’s new judicial system, a group of 30 Mexican lawyers and law professors from Baja California participated …
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comparison of México and Colombia prompts President Obama to respond
09/09/10 – This past Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with journalists and members of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.; during the Q&A session …
Brother of “El Coyote,” an associate of “La Barbie,” is arrested
09/09/10- Jorge Alberto González Escorcia, the brother of infamous “El Coyote” Mauro González Escorcia, was detained by the army Wednesday in Morelos. According to Military Zone 24 (la 24 Zona Militar), …
Veracruz governor, Fidel Herrera Beltrán, seeks to extend the mayoral term to four years
09/08/10 – On September 1st, the deputation of the local Congress of Veracruz presented an initiative proposed by Governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán, which would extend the mayoral term to four …
A mayor in San Luis Potosí was shot and killed at his desk
09/08/10 – An armed group killed the mayor of El Naranjo, San Luis Potosí, this Wednesday afternoon. Early reports state that the gunmen arrived at the mayor’s office around 2:00pm …
Investigators in the case of the 72 massacred immigrants are killed; a third survivor from El Salvador is made known
09/08/10 – The bodies of an agent for the state prosecutor’s office, Roberto Jaime Suárez Vázquez, and the head of police in San Fernando, Juan Carlos Suárez Sánchez, were found …
Imprisoned women released for the murder of kin
09/08/10 – Yesterday afternoon, six Guanajuato women charged with manslaughter in the degree of kinship (grado de parentesco) were released from prison; six of the seven women were released from …
Mexican Government reports a 317% increase in kidnapping cases
Abductions 09/07/10 – According to a report by the Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados), in 2005 there was less then one kidnapping a day reported; during the first six …
Vega Casillas mandates the investigation of migratory agent corruption
09/07/2010 – Salvador Vega Casillas, Secretary of Mexico’s Federal Ministry of Public Administration (Secretaría de la Función Pública – SFP), has affirmed that various “investigaciones relevantes” have commenced pertaining to …