Archive for September, 2008
Arrests made in Mexico grenade attack raise questions
The arrests pose as many questions as they provide answers.
Nightmare bureaucracy in Mexico? Share your story.
Red_tape_mexico
The Mexican government launched a competition Thursday to find the worst examples of inefficiency within the bureaucratic machine.
Gael Garcia Bernal mocked for essay on Mexico attacks
Gael Garcia Bernal, the Mexican actor and heart throb, has responded to the bombings in the Mexican state of Michoacan last week with a column for the newspaper El Universal.
Morelia: informality characterizes bombing investigation
The most important thing that occurred to me as I’ve perused other media’s coverage, my own, and the scene itself, is how frighteningly informal the attitude of the authorities is to the crime scene itself.
Video: Mexico Bomb Victim Tells His Story
Rafael Bucio, a 30 year old car-parking attendant, was out with his wife and two small children in Morelia, Mexico on Monday night enjoying the Independence celebrations when two grenades went off.
Morelia bomb victim speaks, blood still on the streets
Rafael Bucio was waiting for his mother on the corner of the streets Madero and Quintana Roo in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico Monday night. Behind him, his wife Gloria Alvarez stood in the street with their three-month old child in her arms. They didn’t know that their lives were about to change forever.
“Lots of ambulances and patrol cars started to pass by going to the center – to the cathedral,” explained Bucio Wednesday afternoon from a hospital bed, broken bones in his arm and leg held together by pins. Blood seeped through the bandages onto the white cotton sheet covering the bed.
He was moving closer to his wife, away from the street corner, when he heard a thump.
Morelia: the aftermath.
Yesterday, the public paid their respects at a shrine to the side of the city’s main plaza in Morelia, remembering the seven people killed in Monday night’s bomb attack.
Video: Mexico’s Military Marches as Citizens React to Yesterday’s Bombings
Two explosions during Mexican Independence Day celebrations in the western state of Michoacan killed eight people Monday night and injured dozens more, we reported yesterday.
Video: Mexico’s police reform – what do the public think?
What do Mexicans think of their police force?
Mexico’s drug violence is bad for business
The drug violence that continues to sweep across Mexico isn’t only damaging citizen confidence in the country’s government and public security. It also is taking a toll on Mexico’s economy, according to Treasury Secretary Agustin Carstens.
NYT: How the drug war impacts civilians
The New York Times has a great piece online today about how just regular citizens are reacting to the drug war.
Photos: Peace march in Mexico
A girl wielded a photo of Monica Alejandrina, who was kidnapped in 2004, during this Saturday’s march for peace across Mexico.
