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Transparency & accountability

Drug Trafficking Networks in the United States

This week, El Universal ran a series of reports by two teams of journalists on drug trafficking and its impacts north of the border, looking especially at U.S.-side corruption and retail distribution …

Crime and Violence

Violence leaves 11 dead in Chihuahua

According to El Economista, local authorities reported an occurrence of violence linked to organized crime, including a quadruple homicide leaving 11 dead in Chihuahua during Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. …

Human Rights and Civil Society

Deputies urge for better measures to address nationwide impunity

According to the newspaper, El Universal, only 15 out of 100 crimes are reported in Mexico, leaving 85 crimes and criminals in impunity. There has been concern about this situation …

Crime and Violence

Army force discovers drug manufacturing lab in Jalisco

A clandestine laboratory where elaborate synthetic drugs were produced was dismantled by members of the military in Soyatan del Oro of the municipality Atengo, 139 kilometers from the capital. Inside …

Crime and Violence

Rural Communities in Mexico, NAFTA and Narcotraffic

According to an article by La Jornada, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has narrowed  the relationship between drug trafficking and the rural society because of its devastating effects on …

Crime and Violence

9 murdered in 9 hours in Juárez

The following is said to have taken place the week of September 25th. Police found the bodies of nine people murdered in the span of nine hours in the border …

Crime and Violence

Hospital attacked in Neza

Municipal police forces, in coordination with the Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District, detained five alleged criminals, including one woman. Minutes before, the criminals had threatened staff and …

Human Rights and Civil Society

Arturo Chávez Chávez as Mexico’s attorney general

Last month Arturo Chávez Chávez, a former Chihuahua state prosecutor, was confirmed as Mexico’s new attorney general. A position dependant on the nomination of the President of the Republic but …

Crime and Violence

Blurred lines between Federal Police and Organized Crime

Three Federal Police agents were arrested and accused of delivering information to criminal gangs in exchange for money. At the time of arrest, one of the federal policemen had $271,000 …

Human Rights and Civil Society

Family members of disappeared demand attention

On Friday September 25th relatives of disappeared persons in Tijuana took public action demanding attention and acknowledgement from the government. Following in the tradition of Argentina’s Mothers of Plaza de …

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