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Transparency & accountability

A streamlined approach created to register a business

A new government Internet site – www.tuempresa.gob.mx –  consolidates a series of steps necessary to register a business, and is being touted as a way to reduce corruption. Dow Jones …

Transparency & accountability

Zacatecas University challenges request for public information

The Autonomous University of Zacatecas is legally challenging a public records request for information on the salaries of four of the university’s former vice-chancellors by arguing that the data is …

Crime and Violence

20 dead after riot in Durango prison; 2 escape from Sinaloa prison

20 are dead and another 25 wounded after a riot broke out in a prison in the northern interior state of Durango. All of the dead and wounded were inmates …

Justice in Mexico

U.S. government targets Mexican cartels in indictments

In two indictments filed in New York City and Washington, D.C., the U.S. government identified a total of 19 men it accuses of involvement in the Gulf cartel and its …

Crime and Violence

Mexico to establish special “drug courts”

The Calderón administration announced plans to create special courts to try minor drug-related crimes. The “drug courts,” similar to some operating in the United States, would sentence addicts to rehabilitation …

Human Rights and Civil Society

Human Rights Watch notes that in various operations, Mexican soldiers have committed serious abuses against civilians

The organization Human Rights Watch said that the evidence of unpunished registered cases of military abuses contradicts President Felipe Calderón. “The claim of President Felipe Calderón today that cases of …

Justice in Mexico

Border corruption rising on US side

As reported by Martha Mendoza and Christopher Sherman of the ASSOCIATED PRESS: McALLEN, Texas — Corruption along the U.S.-Mexican border takes many forms. It can start as simply as a …

Transparency & accountability

Mexico admits that land grants are used for illicit crops

The Mexican government acknowledged that some land grant through the Program of Direct Support to the Field (Procampo) are used for illicit crops, in response to a complaint from a …

Crime and Violence

President Calderón’s public security strategy under fire from Mexican, U.S. lawmakers

With casualties of the drug war in Mexico in 2009 likely to surpass last year’s total, and allegations of human rights abuses gaining increasing national and international attention, Pres. Calderón’s …

Crime and Violence

Federal Police target La Familia in a spate of arrests in Michoacán

Federal Police have continued a campaign against the La Familia Michoacana cartel over the past month with a number of high-profile arrests following several attacks on police and military installments, …

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