Is Mexico’s new migrant law enough to help those in transit?
May 8th 2011 – Thousands of protesters marched to Mexico City’s Zocalo Sunday demanding an end to the violence generated by President Felipe Calderon’s ‘war’ against drug cartels. See the video for more.
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Mexican Drug Gang Took Bus Passengers to Recruit Gunmen – this story does beg the question: why kidnap a load of men to recruit them into your drug gang, only to massacre them the next day?
Raymundo Arellano wears a pair of dog tags around his neck. His name, blood type and next of kin have been indented on the silver plates.
“My greatest fear is that I’ll be killed and they’ll bury me somewhere and no one will recognize my remains,” he says.
Following the discovery of 59 bodies buried in a number of pits in the northern state of Tamaulipas, those looking for disappeared loved ones are traveling there to see if they can find the remains of people they’re looking for. The finding of the bodies Wednesday happened at the same time that Mexicans were marching in cities across the country in protest to the drug-related violence in Mexico that has claimed more than 35,000 lives. And the Governor of the Bank of Mexico Augustin Carstens says that crime and violence have become “the most important factors inhibiting growth and investment” in Mexico in the past few months.
Thousands of Mexicans marched for peace in Mexico city and other centers around the country on Wednesday to protest the drug-related violence here that has claimed more than 35,000 lives.
A recent visit by the UN Working Group on involuntary or forced disappearances questioned the Mexican army’s current role in President Felipe Calderon’s “war” against organized crime and drug gangs.
Mass grave discovered, Mexicans march for peace, and more on today’s Mexico Daily
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On this week’s Tijuana Press Review: An update on the Mexican Wiki Leaks scandal. A gang of cartel murders is arrested And San Diego’s Mayor Jerry Sanders visits Tijuana and talks about safety, immigration, and the American media coverage of Tijuana. Go HERE to watch ( http://bowlersdesk.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/tijuana-press-week-in-review-3-27-11/ )
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This week, the Tijuana Press Review covers the shattered calm in Tijuana, and reports that Tijuana’s former police chief is going to take over in Juarez. And the show talks to the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute David Shirk PhD about their new report of drug violence in in Mexico.
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No Mas Sangre (No More Blood), a social protest group that began life as a cartoon, took to the streets of Mexico City on a recent weekend. They were in protesting what they see as a failed policy – President Felipe Calderon’s campaign against the country’s drug cartels and organized crime. But how representative are they of the Mexican people?
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This week in the Tijuana Press Week in review a kidnapping gang is stopped, questions still surround the city’s old police chief and locals try to break a zumba world record.
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February 25th 2011 – Mexico’s migrant monarch butterflies in the state of Michoacan see less visitors as tourists are put off by press reports of narco violence. After being fired for asking Mexico President Felipe Calderon to respond to rumors that he has an alcohol problem, outspoken broadcaster and journalist Carmen Aristegui returned to the airwaves. And drug-related violence for the first time claimed the life of a US security agent – we ask what it means for US/Mexico relations.
National oil company Pemex struggles as oil production drops. Carola Hoyos reports from Mexico for the Financial Times. Filmed, produced and edited by Deborah Bonello.
The remittances that Mexican migrants send home to their families from a recession-bound US has dropped by 14 per cent over the last year.
Marriage between same-sex couples in Mexico City will become legal in early March. But Adam Thomson explains how the new rules are proving controversial and opponents are planning to take it to the Supreme Court. Produced by Deborah Bonello for the Financial Times.
Agustin Carstens, the recently appointed governor of the Bank of Mexico, talks about his predecessor as well as future plans for the bank and its relationship with Mexico’s federal government. Click here and here for the two videos produced for the Financial Times. Thanks to Greg Brosnan, of Streetdog Media, for being the second cameraman, and the [...]
Change, once again, is afoot.
Univision: Young angels in Juarez battle the city’s demons
AFP: Mexico City struggles with waste disposal
AFP: Activists under fire in Mexico
AFP: Ambulance attacked in Ciudad Juarez
Time: Evidence of Killings and Disappearances by Mexico’s Security Forces
AFP: Mexicans honor drug war victims on Day of the Dead
