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Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs, Part 3

Mary Mata August 29, 2012

Editors note: This article was published by the Phoenix New Times in July. With their permission, News Taco is reprinting it in five installments throughout the week to inspire debate […]

Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs, Part 2

Mary Mata August 28, 2012

Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs, Part I

Mary Mata August 27, 2012

Poet’s Peace Caravan Crosses U.S. to End Drug War

Mary Mata August 9, 2012

PRESS RELEASE Caravan for Peace Tijuana/San Diego – On Sunday, August 12, a broad bi-national coalition of more than 100 U.S. civil society organizations, including the National Association for the […]

U.S. Senate Report Signals Shift In Drug War Strategy

NewsTaco July 18, 2012

By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer In April, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations sent a team of staffers to Mexico City and Monterrey to assess the state of […]

DRUGS: Narco “Canonized”

Mary Mata July 16, 2012

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I guess it was only a matter of time, but …Nazario Moreno, deceased leader of La Familia Michoacana, the narco-Catholic drug cartel now finding itself […]

En Tamaulipas, Elecciones Marcadas por Violencia, Miedo

Mary Mata July 5, 2012

Por Sanjuana Martinez                                                                                                                  Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas – En este pueblo que alguna vez fue mágico, el padrón electoral “esta lleno de muertos, desaparecidos y gente que se fue por la […]