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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Tuesday, Jun 21, 2005,Page 7
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 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
CPJ urges Mexico's Fox to move on special prosecutor for free expressio crimes
The Committee to Protect Journalists is disappointed that a special prosecutor has not been appointed to investigate crimes against free expression despite your pledge to seek the position in response to a wave of murderous violence against the media in northern Mexico.
CPJ believes that the protection of free expression is crucial in the months leading up to the July presidential elections. A new legal framework would allow all Mexicans to express themselves freely and would protect the public's right to information about vital developments in your
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
Women's murders rise in city on U.S.-Mexico border
- The number of women murdered in this notorious city on the U.S. border has surged this year, despite a government effort to crack down on crime, prosecutors said on Thursday.
More than 340 women have been strangled, beaten and stabbed to death in Ciudad Juarez, south of El Paso, Texas, in a 12-year killing spree that has provoked outrage in Mexico and abroad and led to calls for decisive government action to end the crimes.
Chihuahua state prosecutors said 30 women and young girls were murdered in the industrial city from Jan. 1 to
Mexico's 1968 massacre heads for big screen
As Mexico struggles for justice in a 1968 massacre of students, the darkest chapter of political violence in its recent history, American and Mexican filmmakers are taking the bloodshed to the big screen.
"Tlatelolco: Mexico 68" focuses on the student protest in Mexico City that ended in slaughter just days before Mexico hosted the 1968 Olympic Games.
Government security forces opened fire on protesters on Oct. 2, 1968, marking the start of a long and violent campaign against dissidents.
The attack has inspired books, documentaries and local low-budget films, but this is the first time a
Students, unions mark '68 Mexico massacre
Thousands of students and union activists marched through downtown Mexico City on Sunday to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1968 massacre of student protesters.
This year's commemorative march comes after a judge in September refused to issue arrest warrants for former president Luis Echeverria and other former officials, ruling that the statute of limitations had run out on the crimes.
The leftist Mayor of Mexico City, Alejandro Encinas, held a ceremony in Tlatelolco Plaza, the city square where it occurred, to honor the dead.
"We must create a climate of vengeance, but we must find out the
Concerns grow after journalist shot in Mexico
Mexico became Latin America's most dangerous country in which to be a journalist in 2005, the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday.
The organization issued a statement expressing concern about the safety of journalists in Mexico a day after police in the southern state of Oaxaca announced that a radio news reporter had been shot and critically wounded by assailants.
In northern Mexico alone this year, six journalists have been killed and a seventh is still missing, according to Mexican newspaper editors.
In September, Mexican President Vicente Fox said he would appoint a special
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's government congratulated U.S. authorities on Friday for action against Mexican companies and individuals alleged to be involved in laundering illegal drug profits.
President Vicente Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, told a news conference the U.S. declaration was based on investigations within the United States -- implying it did not violate Mexican sovereignty.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday added 30 companies and individuals to a list of alleged drug trafficking organizations. It allows U.S. authorities to seize their U.S. assets and blocks any U.S. citizen and resident from dealing with them.
"The government of Mexico congratulates the U.S. government
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
