Mexico Did A Poor Job of “Dirty Work” for the US
Mexican diplomacy is at its nadir because it is not just doing the US’ “dirty work", but is doing it badly, political analysts assert.
Well-known analyst Gabriel Guerra said Mexico’s foreign policy is in a very serious situation, stressing that the crisis with Argentina at the Summit of the Americas is far from accidental.
Guerra explained this is the result of a series of mistakes, a lack of strategy, experience and a median and long term plan giving Latin America its rightful place.
Mexico should be the country demonstrating the least interest in the Free Trade Area for the Americas treaty and deplored the upstart role played by its representatives “who didn’t even do it right.”
Mexican Ex Foreign Minister Rosario Green concurred, saying that President Vicente Fox’ presence in Mar del Plata could be termed “successful” if his purpose was to divide Latin America.
His attitude received harsh criticism from legislators and political parties who said the role the President played in Argentina was that of “a cheerleader for George W. Bush.”
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Mexico 'dirty war' crimes alleged
The Mexican government and military committed "crimes against humanity" in the so-called "dirty war" against left-wing rebels, a leaked report says.
The report was prepared for current President Vicente Fox but has not been released. A US NGO has printed material saying Mexicans had a right to know.
The army kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of rebel suspects, says the report, which covers 1964 to 1982.
Mexico's special prosecutor says the report is biased and has been revised.
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Mexico election race turns as conservative surges
Mexicos ruling party presidential candidate appears to be pulling away from his leftist rival after aggressive TV ads propelled his dramatic surge in an election race being fought on economic policies.
A closely watched poll in the Reforma newspaper on Wednesday showed Felipe Calderon, a conservative, with 40-percent support among probable voters and his left-wing challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador trailing at 33 percent.
Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who promises to put the poor first, had been Mexicos most popular politician for three years and was the clear election front-runner until
Mexico says done all it could for dirty war trials
Mexican President Vicente Fox's government on Friday admitted there was little else it could do to punish former officials for their past repression of leftist dissidents after a court dealt the administration another legal setback this week.
A judge this week refused to issue arrest orders for former Mexican President Luis Echeverria and seven others for a 1968 student massacre by police and soldiers.
It was the latest setback to Fox's attempts to bring to justice former members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, who committed atrocities against leftists for decades. The
Mexico's flood of tired and poor divides America
LAST year the Pew Hispanic Centre polled Mexicans on their attitudes about migrating to the United States.
Asked if they would go to live in the US if they had the means and opportunity, more than four in 10 said yes. More than 20 per cent said they were inclined to go without authorisation.
Last year more than 1 million tried, but were caught. An unknown number succeeded.
Nobody knows how many unauthorised migrants are in the US. The Pew Centre, the most authoritative research organisation on Latino issues, estimates 11 million.
The issue has been a
Mexico arrests 8 agents in filmed drug execution
Mexico said on Thursday it had arrested 10 people, including eight federal agents, in the kidnapping of four suspected drug gang hitmen and the filmed execution of at least one of them.
The case has thrown the spotlight on the often cosy relations between Mexican authorities and organised crime. Drug gangs routinely bribe police, officials and judges to protect them or carry out their dirty work.
Four men, beaten and bruised, were shown on a homemade DVD confessing to being members of the infamous Gulf Cartel of drug traffickers. One of them was then
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Advertising A Mexican court has issued four new arrest warrants against former government officials wanted in the forced disappearance of dissidents in the 1970s, special prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo announced on Sunday.
Six members of the Brigada Campesina de los Lacandones were arrested in central Mexican state of Hidalgo in 1974 and turned over illegally to the now-dissolved Federal Security Directorate, never to be seen again, according to prosecutors.
The new arrest orders in the Hidalgo case bring to 16 the number of warrants issued as prosecutors pursue crimes of the so-called "dirty
Mexico rules out poor relations with Venezuela
The Mexican Government downplayed Friday the possibility of worsening relations with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, accused of intervening in the electoral process.
"There is no fear that relations will be affected by these events," Rubén Aguilar, the speaker of President Vicente Fox, said during a press conference, Efe reported.
The Foreign Ministers of both countries have stated that "relations go smoothly and works continue on the possibility of solving the problem that emerged months ago," he explained.
Fox's conservative Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) claimed that Chávez is intervening in the elections for president
Mexico's contradictions playing U.S. for fools
Since the 1910 Mexican Revolution, our neighbor to the south has chosen exactly one leader in a fair election, current President Vicente Fox.
He presides over a nation where disparities of wealth between the working poor and the politically connected corrupt are as disheartening as the 40 percent of citizens living below the poverty line a figure that excludes those millions of poor Mexicans who immigrated to the United States seeking a better life.
The U.S. dollars earned by expatriate Mexicans and sent home as remittances keep hungry families from starving and a dysfunctional country from
US to work with Mexicos future president
The United States said on Monday that it will work with the winner in Mexicos presidential race and expressed confidence that a winner will be announced soon.
The Mexican government has announced that they will declare a winner, we think on Wednesday, and at that point, the president will congratulate the winner, White House spokesman Tony Snow said at a briefing.
We are going to work with the government of Mexico. Its an ally and neighbor, and obviously, weve got a great number of shared interests,
Rubbish-pickers see red as Mexico goes green
Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico, Feb 09: When Mexico city housewives began separating kitchen leftovers from non-organic trash to protect the environment, Juan Santos was devastated.
''You used to find roast chickens, raw chicken, sausages, ham, butter, all kinds of fruit,'' said the crippled 68-year-old garbage-picker, hobbling through putrid hills of Nley Oiotfor 20 years. ''They have ruined us.''
Every day on the eastern edge of this city of 18 million, hundreds of poor families rake what they can sell to recyclers from household waste dumped at their feet by a legion
