More than 1,700 environmental activists murdered in the past decade – report
Figures likely to be an underestimate, says Global Witness, as land defenders are killed by hitmen, crime groups and governments More than 1,700 murders of...
Category : Mexico
At least two dead in Mexico after second earthquake strikes within a week
Michoacán state suffers another temblor, felt as far away as Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero states A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Mexico, causing at...
Retired Mexican general arrested over disappearance of 43 students in 2014
Ex-officer was head of army base in Iguala when students were abducted in what a report called a ‘state crime’ Mexican authorities have arrested a...
Mexican rebels donate museum money for canoes to refugee rescues
Madrid museum buys three hand-carved canoes from Zapatistas, with proceeds going to Open Arms NGO Three exquisitely decorated canoes hand-carved in the jungles of southern...
Mexico: journalist in Guerrero becomes 15th media worker killed in 2022
Fredid Román, who ran an online outlet focused on state-level politics, gunned down in his car in state capital A local journalist who ran an...
Mexico’s ex-attorney general arrested over disappearance of 43 students in 2014
Jesús Murillo held on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice in notorious Guerrero case Mexico’s former attorney general has been arrested in...
Cuban doctor among three shot dead at hospital in Mexico
Doctor killed along with a nurse and another woman at a hospital in the suburb of Ecatepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City A Cuban...
Journalist found dead in northern Mexico in bloody year for media
Body of Juan Arjón López, 14th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2022, identified by tattoos in border city of San Luis Río Colorado...
US issues western water cuts as drought leaves Colorado River near ‘tipping point’
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico affected as federal government steps in after states failed to reach agreement After western US states failed to reach agreements to...
Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving 11 dead
Four radio station employees among dead as alleged gang members rampaged through Ciudad Juárez A prison confrontation between members of two rival cartels spilled on...