Pena Nieto’s standing has been battered by a string of massive street protests following the abduction and likely murder of 43 students by a drug gang working with corrupt police in the southwestern city of Iguala on the night of Sept. 26. On Monday, Pena Nieto flies to the U.S. capital to meet Obama, and […]
Mexico summoned Uruguay’s ambassador on Sunday after the South American country’s president described Mexico as a kind of “failed state” in a magazine interview. President Jose Mujica’s comments were in response to a question about 43 college students missing in southern Mexico and appeared in Foreign Affairs’ Latin American edition. But late Sunday Mujica released
Mexico’s president has tried to keep the issue of violence issue separate from his focus on the economy, but the two are converging as violent protests over 43 disappeared students squelch tourism in Acapulco just before a major holiday weekend. As Mexico prepares to commemorate its 1910 revolution Monday, hotels in Acapulco have seen a
Mexico’s finance minister said on Wednesday Latin America’s No. 2 economy is recovering after a weak start to the year and that recent social unrest due to the disappearance of 43 students had yet to hit growth. Finance Minister Luis Videgaray said at an event in Mexico City that the economy had entered a “clear
Hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows and set fires inside a state capital building in southern Mexico on Monday, as fury erupted over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel. The protesters called for the 43 students from a rural teachers’ college in Guerrero state,
State officials worked Monday to determine whether 28 bodies found in a clandestine grave are students who were attacked by police suspected of drug gang links. President Enrique Pena Nieto called the deaths “outrageous, painful and unacceptable.” Guerrero State Prosecutor Inaky Blanco said the bodies are badly damaged and that genetic testing could take two
