November 17, 2009 Upside Down World
	A New United Movement Stops Mexico for a Day -- Fueled by a widespread feeling of a deteriorating standard of living in Mexico, the government’s firing of 44,000 electricity workers, members of the county’s most combative and independent union, SME (Mexican Electrical Union), became catalyst for a movement of people deeply angry at both an unfair economic system, and towards a president who, most studies admit, used fraud to win the elections in 2006.
November 10, 2009 Center for International Policy, Americas Program
	Mexico and the Crisis of a Dependent Economy -- The well-known 19th century Mexican saying—"poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States"—has become more poignant today than ever in the context of the global economic crisis.
November 09, 2009 Upside Down World
	Electrical Workers of Mexico Take on Calderon Government -- A union leader's account of the recent events in the Mexican Union of Electricity workers (SME), and the electricity company Fuerzas y Luces, after 6,000 federal police and soldiers occupied it on 10 October. President Felipe Calderon then liquidated the company and its union, the SME, leaving 44,000 workers unemployed.
October 29, 2009 Upside Down World [Dispatches From Mexico]
	The Hidden Side of Mexico's Drug War -- An interview with ERPI guerrilla leader Comandante Ramiro
October 29, 2009 Upside Down World [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Mexican Political Prisoners Gloria Arenas and Jacobo Silva Released -- Gloria Arenas Agís was released from prison around 7:30PM on October 28, ten years after Mexican federal agents abducted, tortured, and then—after several days of being held incommunicado—arrested her and her husband Jacobo Silva Nogales on charges ranging from terrorism and homicide to rebellion.
October 27, 2009 Upside Down World
	Mexico's Utility Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA -- At midnight on Octover 10, President Felipe Calderon issued an executive decree to liquidate the company and its union, one of the strongest and most vocal independent unions in the nation. Ironically, the current economic crisis provided the Calderon Administration its strategic opportunity to cut the underfunded company and malign the union.
October 12, 2009 BBC News
	Mexico shuts troubled energy firm -- Mexico has closed a state-run energy distribution firm with about 40,000 employees and 25 million customers, blaming the scale of its losses.
October 05, 2009 The Huffington Post
	Thanks to Operation Gatekeeper, Deathtoll Increases to Over 5,000 -- Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not improved the numbers of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars and human suffering.
September 02, 2009 The New York Times
	Leader Urges Cooperation Against Ills Mexico Faces -- In his annual state of the union address, President Felipe Calderón described a country tested by the global economic crisis, the swine flu pandemic, rising drug violence, drought and plummeting oil production.
August 05, 2009 Washington Post Foreign Service
	Leahy Blocks Positive Report on Mexico's Rights Record -- Senator Patrick Leahy rejected a State Department plan to issue a report this week affirming that Mexico is respecting human rights in its war against drug traffickers, delaying the release of millions of dollars under Plan Mexico.
July 27, 2009 Foreign Policy In Focus
	Obama: Renegotiate NAFTA as You Promised -- Will opening up the SPP summits to civil society participation become a forgotten campaign pledge? Will the Obama administration continue to ignore calls from citizens in Canada, Mexico, and the United States to renegotiate a free trade agreement that serves only elite interests and needs a complete overhaul?
July 08, 2009 Narco News
	Zapatistas: Plan Merida Seeks to Eliminate Dissidents -- In the American Meeting Against Impunity, a Zapatista Good Government Council argued that Plan Merida is an instrument to persecute those who fight for their rights.
May 31, 2009 The Los Angeles Times
	Mexico drug traffickers corrupt politics -- A new and violent group, La Familia Michoacana, is undermining the electoral system and day-to-day governance of Michoacan and expanding into neighboring central states, pushing an agenda that goes beyond the usual money-only interests of drug cartels.
May 29, 2009 Bloomberg.com
	Mexico Economy to Shrink 8.5%, Goldman Sachs Says -- Mexico’s economy will contract this year by 8.5 percent, the largest slump in 77 years.
May 29, 2009 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
	Enforcement-First Immigration Politics -- Under President Bush, the conservative response to immigration reform coalesced around tougher border control and enforcement--in practice, an enforcement-only strategy. Now there is rising concern that the Obama administration remains committed to enforcement over reform.
May 18, 2009 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
	House and Senate Pass New Military Aid to Mexico -- As the U.S. economy reels, the U.S. 2009 Supplemental Bill will provide $470 million to corrupt Mexican security forces for an unwinnable drug war. In doing so the U.S. government shows little concern for human rights in Mexico, and suggests that Bush interests continue to control much of its foreign policy.
May 11, 2009 Centro Prodh
	Global Exchange Joins Centro Prodh in Calling for Justice in Atenco -- Police carried out a lethal and unjustified repression of dissidents in San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico during demonstrations in May 2006. Three years later there has been no punishment for those who approved and conducted the brutal police assault and systematic rape of women in police custody. Global Exchange joins the Centro Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez in calling on the government of Calderón to bring an end to impunity.
May 08, 2009 Red todos los derechos para todos y todas
	Mexican NGOs Send a Letter to the U.S. Congress -- Mexican Human Rights Organizations call Congress to stop funding the militarization of Mexican public security, and instead to address the root causes of narcotics trafficking.
April 16, 2009 New America Media
	Obama Can Solve Illegal Immigration—Bail Out Mexico -- The White House announcement that it will tackle comprehensive immigration reform this year is good news. However, if the package does not include at least the first steps toward helping Mexico improve its economy and infrastructure, undocumented Mexican migration will not be solved permanently. Economic investment in Mexico is what’s needed to solve the undocumented migration challenge.
April 14, 2009 Global Exchange
	President Obama Visits Mexico April 16th and 17th -- Barack Obama travels to Mexico this week to discuss the politically charged topics of drug policy, border security and immigration with President Felipe Calderón. We hope he has been briefed on some of the erroneous assumptions that have guided recent U.S. policy toward Mexico. Correcting these errors is essential because continuing on the flawed path of his predecessors could have disastrous consequences.
March 31, 2009 Mexican Labor News and Analysis
	MEXICO: A State of Exception? Or a State in Disintegration? -- The Mexican state appears to be changing, leading a number of Mexican intellectuals to speculate on the nature of these developments. This is not simply a question of Mexico becoming a "failed state," about which there has been much speculation, but rather an attempt to theorize the evolution of the Mexican state at this moment.
March 30, 2009 The New York Times
	In Drug War, Mexico Fights Cartel and Itself -- REYNOSA, Mexico — An army convoy on the hunt for traffickers rolled out of its base recently in this border town under the control of the Gulf Cartel — and an ominous voice crackled over a two-way radio frequency to announce just that. The voice, belonging to a cartel spy, then broadcast the soldiers’ route through the city, turn by turn, using the same military language as the soldiers.
March 27, 2009 WOR Radio, John Gambling show [Dispatches From Mexico]
	What's Going On In Mexico? -- John Gibler, Journalist and Author: Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt joined The John Gambling Show to discuss what exactly is going on with drug lords and the U.S./ Mexican border.
March 27, 2009 CNN American Morning [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Author: U.S. security no match for Mexican drug cartels -- Video - Watch Gibler give his views on U.S. security efforts http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/27/gibler.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
March 25, 2009 Democracy Now! [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Obama Sending More Federal Agents, Money to Mexico Border for Drug War -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today, a day after the Obama administration announced it would send more money, technology and manpower to secure the United States-Mexico border and bolster the Mexican government’s anti-narcotics operation. We go to the US-Mexico border to speak with independent journalist John Gibler.
March 25, 2009 The Boston Globe
	Militaristic posturing in Mexico -- HILLARY CLINTON should take advantage of this week's visit to Mexico to openly question the Mexican government's failing human rights record. President Felipe Calderón has centered his anti-drug strategy almost exclusively on the use of the military.
March 24, 2009 The New York Times
	Nafta’s Promise, Unfulfilled -- MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s former president, Carlos Salinas, used to promise that free trade and foreign investment would jump-start this country’s development, empowering a richer and more prosperous Mexico “to export goods, not people.”
March 20, 2009 Centro ProDH
	The Military and Human Rights in Mexico -- These reports reflect the impact of military involvement in the "war" on drugs in Mexico. They describe the pattern of increased human rights abuses by the Mexican Military, the impunity of the military personnel that commits these abuses, and the subsequent threat to freedom of expression and other basic rights.
March 16, 2009 Council on Hemispheric Affairs
	In the Hot Seat: Mexico Goes Before the U.N. Human Rights Council -- On February 10, 2009 the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) evaluated the current state of human rights in Mexico, as well as provided guidance for improvement in the country’s historically far from distinguished record.
March 10, 2009 House Appropriations Committee
	Testimony of Ana Paula Hernández, Consultant in Mexico on Human Rights and Drug Policy on the Merida Initiative -- Testimony of Ana Paula Hernández, Consultant in Mexico on Human Rights and Drug Policy on the Merida Initiative, before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on State Foreign Operations and Related Programs.

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