In Mexico, a Question of Guilt by Protestation
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When Miguel David Meza Argueta heard last year that his cousin Neyra, a 20-year-old computer student, had disappeared, he said he immediately flew to this city in northern Mexico to help search for her. Hundreds of young women in the border state of Chihuahua, mainly in Ciudad Juarez, have been murdered in the past decade, so Meza said he feared the worst.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has been cleared of accusations that its opposition to abortion violated a law banning priests from mixing in politics, but the church said yesterday that it will mount a campaign to change the law it believes is too restrictive.
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Mexico MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n yesterday praised a new law that obligates federal and local authorities to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women, and he promised a "relentless" fight against gender-related abuse. The law does not drastically change how violators are punished. But it symbolically underscores the government's recognition of a scourge that is widespread but often ...
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Amnesty International raised concerns on Wednesday over President Felipe Calderon's use of troops to control Mexico's spiraling drug violence, fearing rights abuses and echoing worries of the United Nations.
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Mexico's rivals in the July 2 presidential election quibbled over a few thousand votes recounted by election officials, as followers of the losing candidate claimed police brutality outside Congress.
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Citizens of Mexico pause to celebrate 150th anniversary of the country's national anthem.
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Thousands of supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador protested outside Mexico's top electoral court on Monday night, demanding a vote-by-vote recount of the July 2 presidential election.
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Mexico's National Human Rights Commission blamed both authorities and protesters Thursday for "excesses" during a months of unrest last year in Oaxaca, and urged the government to investigate its finding that federal police tortured detainees.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's drug cartels are killing record numbers of people with unprecedented brutality. Federal security forces are bogged down in a violent political conflict in the southern city of Oaxaca. Years of sluggish economic growth cannot meet the needs of a country where over half the population lives in poverty.
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The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics and spilled into the ever-simmering debate over Mexicoâs commitment to free-market economics.
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A Supreme Court decision in favor of one protesting village has inspired others.
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The convictions of 10 men in the killings of a dozen women in Juarez has done little to appease victims' relatives and activists, who say authorities may be more interested in closing cases than in finding the true culprits.
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It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number.
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MEXICO CITY -- Ines Fernandez Ortega was with her four children, drying meat on her patio, when three soldiers entered her home in a small indigenous village in southern Guerrero state. They accused her of stealing the meat.
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The ballots have been cast and counted. But Felipe Calderon isn&#039;t Mexico&#039;s president-elect until the nation&#039;s highest electoral court says so.
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MONTERREY -- Mexico is demanding a formal investigation into the drowning deaths of three undocumented migrants who it said were forced to recross the Rio Grande by US Border Patrol agents who threw stones at the migrants. The Mexican consul in Eagle Pass, Texas, lodged a complaint with the Border Patrol this week after the three women migrants drowned in ...
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6 -- Faced with growing complaints about alleged human rights abuses, Mexican President Felipe CalderÃÂ¿n said Wednesday he would consider using the military less to fight drug cartels.