Poll: Less Than Half Of Mexicans Say Gov’t Beating Narcos

Poll: Less Than Half Of Mexicans Say Gov’t Beating Narcos

Mary Mata September 7, 2011

[Editors Note: The following is a press release from the Pew Hispanic Center.] As the death toll continues to rise in Mexico’s drug war, a new survey by Pew Research Center’s Global […]

Mexico Isn’t All Violence, Despite Soccer Match Gunfire

Mary Mata August 29, 2011

By Wuicho Vargas On August 21 of the year 2011 the game of Monarcas from Morelia, Michoacán Mexico versus the Santos of Torreón, Coahuila was being played like normal in Torreón. The game […]

Mexicans Turn to Social Media to Document Narco Violence

Mary Mata August 8, 2011

[Editor’s note: This post was originally published on March 9, 2010.] By Melissa del Bosque An explosion of violence has occurred in the state of Tamaulipas in the last few […]

In Juarez the Prison Inmates Run the Asylum

Mary Mata August 5, 2011

By Melissa del Bosque On Monday, July 25, there was a riot in the Cereso state prison in Juarez and 17 people were killed. The prison is divided between the […]

Narcos Have Killed Any Hope For Reynosa

Mary Mata August 1, 2011

By Melissa del Bosque Reynosa is crumbling under the dark spell of organized crime and narco-traficantes. This is not the city I used to know a decade ago with its vibrant […]

Looking To Buy Land, Two Unarmed Latinos Shot Near Border

Mary Mata July 18, 2011

By Melissa del Bosque It was an early morning in mid-May. Norberto Velez, 55, and his son Norangel, 32, were driving through ranchland in far West Texas. They were looking […]

Can A Grieving Poet’s Movement For Peace Save Mexico?

Mary Mata July 11, 2011

By Melissa del Bosque On a broiling mid-June afternoon in Juarez, Javier Sicilia stepped on to a makeshift stage in a downtown park to address at least 2,000 of his […]

Looking For The Last Place In Monterrey That’s Safe

Mary Mata June 22, 2011

By Wuicho Vargas McAllen, Texas — It has been more than three years, and the violence in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas has not come to an end.  It has gotten […]

U.S. Ambassador To Mexico Quits

Mary Mata March 22, 2011

In part due to a leaked Wikileaks cable that questioned Mexico’s ability to fight the drug war, and probably due to a whole lot of back door politics, the U.S. […]

U.S. Targets American Gun Cartels

Mary Mata January 27, 2011

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)’s Office of Field Operations has devised a new strategy, according to NBC News, that will have agents focus on monitoring the activities of […]