Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – In the wake of a damning United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) report, President Claudia Sheinbaum has categorically denied the existence of forced disappearances carried out by state actors in Mexico. During a press conference on Tuesday, she stated firmly: “In Mexico, there are no forced disappearances by the State,” […]
Violence in Mexico has many faces, but there are terrible monuments in its honor that will remain as milestones in history. This is the case of Ayotzinapa, the probable murder of 43 students from a school in the mountains of Guerrero on the night of September 26 and the morning of September 27, 2014. One
The Mexican government has dealt a severe blow to one of the most powerful cartels in the country, that of Jalisco Nueva Generación. Rosalinda González Valencia, the wife of its leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias The Mencho, was captured Monday in an operation against the group in the cartel’s stronghold, Zapopan, on the outskirts of
A march marks four years since the disappearance of the 43 students, in Mexico City, September 26, 2018. | Photo: Reuters Despite demands by relatives of the missing 43, the future head of the investigation insists the army won’t be a target. Despite promising relatives of Mexico’s 43 missing Ayotzinapa students to heed their demands,
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday his administration will accept a truth commission to investigate the case of 43 teachers-college students missing since Sept. 26, 2014, drawing rare praise and expressions of hope from the long-suffering parents of the victims. Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the students’ abduction by
Mexican authorities are preparing to arrest dozens of people implicated in the kidnapping and alleged murder of 43 student teachers in southern Mexico more than three years ago, the prosecutor in charge of the case said on Friday. Prosecutor Alfredo Higuera told a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Bogota he
During Pope Francis’ recent tour of Mexico, he denounced the country’s illicit drug trade, while calling for social programs to lift up the poor. One thing he didn’t explicitly touch on: the precarious situation Mexican journalists find themselves in. In fact, on February 9 – four days before the pope’s arrival – the body of
Bloodshot faces, baked into ceramic pots, grimace in pain. Gnarled fingers poke from ashen clay. A skull and hands, the only remains of a body, grip the top of a wall, trying to escape. They are among more than 100 pieces created by Francisco Toledo, perhaps Mexico’s most famous living artist, for his “Mourning” exhibit,
With a football legend, a famous clown, a former Big Brother contestant and several soap stars in the running, the list of candidates in Mexico’s forthcoming elections reads more like the line-up of a television panel show. But the emergence of these maverick contenders reflects a growing sense of disillusionment, which has been compounded by
Mexicans rejoiced at the Oscar victories of native son Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on Monday, and embraced remarks he made that were widely seen as a criticism of their government. Gonzalez Inarritu responded to his best picture award for “Birdman” by expressing hope Mexico “can find and build the government that we deserve.” National pride over
