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Transparency & accountability

Federal crackdown on corruption in Michoacán: Nearly 30 local officials arrested

Gernaro Guizar Valencia-Apatzingán-PRD Uriel Farias Alvarez-Tepalcatepec-PRI Jairo Germán Rivas-Arteaga-PRI Antonio González Rodríguez-Uruapan-PAN Audel Méndez Chávez-Coahuayana-PRI Osvaldo Esquivel Lucatero-Buenavista-PRD Adán Tafolla Ortiz-Tumbiscatio-PRI-PVEM Juan Antonio Ixtlahuac Orihuela-Zitácuaro-PRI José Cortez Ramos-Aquila-PRI José Luis …

Transparency & accountability

Former Policemen Connected to Equihua Kidnapping

Jose Luis Rosas Bárcenas, former policemen of a Special Forces Group of the local Public Security Secretariat (SSP), was arrested for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of …

Crime and Violence

Three police killed in La Huacana, Michoacán

This morning, three individuals, Ernesto Cruz Valenzuela, Pedro Solorio Jiménez y Anastacio Herrera Basurto, whom were part of the local police force were assassinated in La Huacana.  Two other police …

Justice in Mexico

Calderon and Obama talk

Presidents Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama had a telephone conversation last week about what measures both countries should take against the H1N1 influenza A virus, which is still affecting Mexico and …

Crime and Violence

16 year old kidnapped in Chihuahua

A 16 year old Mormon boy, Eric LeBarón, was kidnapped by an armed group last Saturday.  A ransom was demanded for the boy.    The Mormon community in Chihuahua went to …

Crime and Violence

“El comandante Duque” arrested

Eduardo Saúl Duque Vázquez, known as “El comandante Duque,” was arrested Tuesday in the city of El Mirador, in the south of Monterrey.  An ex-member of the police force in …

Crime and Violence

Seven dead, three injured in Tijuana

Seven policemen in the northern city of Tijuana were killed and three more were injured from an attack Monday night.  The first attack happened in Fraccionamiento Murúa, the western zone …

Transparency & accountability

Security cancels visits to detention facilities

Visits to detention facilities in the state of Tamaulipas have been suspended.  In order to avoid a swine flu outbreak they need to take certain security measures, the secretary of public security, …

Transparency & accountability

Corruption in Monterrey

Corruption in Monterrey has cost the state treasury 4 billion pesos, an amount that could be recollected if it canceled payments and ‘moches’ that the top officials demand, PRI candidate …

Crime and Violence

Founder of ‘Loz Zetas’ detained

Police detained one of the founders of ‘Los Zetas’, Germán Torres Jiménez, alias el Z-25′ and ‘El Tatanka’.  Officials believe he has collaborated with Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the ex-leader of the …

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