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Transparency & accountability

Sonoran journalist on tour with book critical of Sonoran governor Eduard Bours

Late last year, journalist Alvaro Neri released a book called El expediente Bours. La corrupcion de la transparencia. La transparencia de corrupcion, which is a compilation of 350 public information …

Transparency & accountability

IFE coordinates with UNAM to monitor election news; Meets initial resistance from Radio and

The Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) is coordinating with researchers at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) to monitor the coverage of the electoral process this year among several hundred …

Transparency & accountability

Legislation goes into effect to ensure proper use of public funds

The federal law of control and accountability went into effect in the end of May. The law provides additional powers to a branch of the federal government – the Auditoria …

Transparency & accountability

Missing 2007 budget funds come under scrutiny

An audit into Mexico’s federal budget has found that the ultimate destination of more than US$8.5 billion (120 billion pesos) in the 2007 budget remains unclear. The money was supposed …

Transparency & accountability

Sonora state government faces criticism following Hermosillo day care center blaze

Criticism against the Mexican government continued to rise along with the number of the victims of a June 5 that broke out in a government-subsidized day care center located in …

Transparency & accountability

Nine military members under investigation for assisting drug traffickers

Nine members of the military are being investigated for connections to drug trafficking groups. A federaljudge allowed authorities 40 days to come up with sufficient evidence to file charges against …

Transparency & accountability

DEA report alleges former Mexican drug czar was corrupted

Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former drug czar who died in a plane crash last November, is among three high-ranking law enforcement officials who are named in a Drug Enforcement …

Transparency & accountability

PEMEX executive resigns amid allegations of corruption

A senior executive with the Mexican state oil company PEMEX resigned after the Mexican newspaper Reforma reported that he accepted a free trip from a software company that had recently …

Transparency & accountability

Nine Tecate police arrested for suspected links to organized crime

In Tecate, a border town in rural Baja California, federal authorities arrested a high-ranking police officer and placed nine others under temporary arrest to allow for time for additional investigations …

Transparency & accountability

Nuevo León police forces come under scrutiny for alleged links to traffickers

Nuevo León’s police forces have come under scrutiny recently in relation to corruption charges. Earlier this month, 78 officers who were suspected of working with drug smugglers were arrested in …

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