News Updates

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—...
By John Gibler
October 29, 2009
The Hidden Side of Mexico's Drug War
  An interview with ERPI guerrilla leader Comandante Ramiro
By John Gibler
October 29, 2009
Mexico's Utility Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA
  "From one day to the next, they left us with no job—nothing," Lopez said, as he marched alongside some 200,000 fellow workers and their supporters in downtown Mexico City on October 15.
October 27, 2009
Thanks to Operation Gatekeeper, Deathtoll Increases to Over 5,000
With numbing regularity news bulletins flash regarding groups or individuals suffering severe injuries, snake bites, or dying in the remote deserts or mountains along the 800 mile "Wall" as they...
October 5, 2009
Leader Urges Cooperation Against Ills Mexico Faces
  President Felipe Calderón on Wednesday listed a catalog of misfortune that afflicted Mexico over the past year. In his annual state of the union address, he described a country tested by the...
September 2, 2009
Arizona Immigration Law Prompts Mexico to Extend Repatriation Aid Program
In response to the controversial Arizona immigration law, Mexico extended a repatriation program to help ease the transition of illegal migrants back home. The governments says the Arizona law could...
Nacha Cattan and Sarah Miller Llana