After exploring the recent death of Mexico's antinarcotics chief, I decided to explore where much of the funding for Mexican drug cartels comes from. The latest killing of Edgar Millan Gomez (see my previous blog post) has now been linked to a Sinaloan drug cartel (see: NY Times article) and occurred shortly after several of […]
This morning's killing of Mexico's Acting Chief of Federal Police, Edgar Millan Gomez, has put the emphasis back on the Bush Administration's Plan Mérida. Millan Gomez was the highest-ranking official to be killed since President Felipe Calderon began the crackdown on Mexican drug cartels in 2007. His death highlights the gravity of the war on […]
On April 10th 2008, opposition legislators closed the podiums in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. This action effectively forced the remaining members of Congress to take legislative action elsewhere and prevented a fast track approval of a key energy reform that affects the most precious natural resource in Mexico: oil. Between 2001 […]
In March 1st 2008, Colombian armed forces destroyed a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Ecuador. Raul Reyes, a FARC's top commander, died in what is considered the "biggest blow" to the guerrilla group so far. The Colombian armed forces also killed 4 Mexican students and injured another one. The incident […]
Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady seeks to put the Nafta-bashing on the campaign trail during the Democratic presidential primary into perspective this week. O’Grady says not only will such rhetoric undermine U.S. efforts to assist in the modernization of Latin American economies, it tips the balance of power towards Big Labor when it […]
A Wall Street Journal op-ed takes a look at some of the problems facing those responsible for managing Mexico's nasty drug war, and the new “realist” attitude adopted by the country's new Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora. Mary Anastasia O’Grady explains a new approach that Mora says seeks to curb the “enormous economic and fire […]
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox spoke at the New York Democracy Forum last week, giving a candid presentation that outlined his anger at the wall being constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border, his support for revamping NAFTA and the creation of a temporary guest worker program for Mexican migrants. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8813317554481503136″ width=”400″ height=”326″ wmode=”transparent” /]
Officials in the state of Chihuahua recently announced their plans to exhume the remains of more than 4,000 unidentified bodies buried in common graves in Ciudad Juarez, after beginning a similar process in Chihuahua City. Although local authorities deny a direct link to the murders and disappearances of several hundred local women in the past 14 […]
New America Media has compiled a summary of the top news in Latin America for 2007, ranging from natural disasters and the election of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as President of Argentina, to the failure of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to consolidate his power through an electoral referendum. President Calderon of Mexico also made the […]
Fourteen years after its passage, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is still widely debated, with concerns over issues such as job movement, workers’ rights, and environmental protection. Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Policy Program in Mexico City, testified before the U.S. Congress on December 6th that NAFTA has been disastrous for small […]
Jose Narro Robles was named the new rector of Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM). Robles is a doctor who previously headed the university's medical school. UNAM, with approximately 160,000 undergraduates and 21,000 graduate students, is the largest — and often ranked the best — university in Latin America.
Director Luis Mandoki's latest release, “Fraud: Mexico 2006,” opened in Mexico to large audiences, generating interest and controversy. The documentary suggests that Felipe Calderon defeated Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a fraudulent process that included improprieties at polling places and an unlawful smear campaign against the leftist candidate, Obrador. The film's pro-Calderon critics dismiss it as propaganda, […]
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