Once a refuge, Mexico City has become a hunting ground where journalists end up reporting on the assassinations of their colleagues — and wondering who will be next.
In Mexico, Hunted Down for Speaking Out
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Mexican Drug Cartels
Mexicans Romanticizing Drug Kingpins Reflects Lack of Confidence in the Rule of Law
The loyalty citizens profess to this violent syndicate or that has nothing to do with actual support, and everything to do with survival in an uncertain social terrain where law enforcement is often a perpetrator.
Arrest of Mexican General for Cartel Connections May Be Purely Political
Not only are the charges old, but he supports President Felipe Calderon’s opposition.
Mexican President Calderon: Kingpin of the Kingpin Strategy
The next president should reject current President Felipe Calderón’s profligate use of the military, and should make protection of human rights a cornerstone of a policy to back the power of traffickers.
Is Iran’s Alleged Cash-for-Assassinations Plot Too Implausible to Be True?
Will Operation Red Coalition eclipse or compound problems created by Operations Fast and Furious?
Presidential Meeting Puts US-Mexico Relations Back on Track – In the Wrong Direction
The presidential meeting this week between Mexico’s Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama looked from the outside like a hastily arranged exercise in damage control. But while most analysts emphasized the tensions between the neighboring nations going into the meeting, the real crisis behind the visit was the failure of what the two leaders most strongly agree on: the war on drugs south of the border.
Napolitano in Texas: Tough Talk, Little Coherence
The Obama administration has unconditionally adopted the Calderon government position that together they are winning the drug war and all that´s needed is to stay the course. Both governments avidly support militarization of the border and of Mexico as the means to confront organized crime. Both governments write off human rights concerns and the bloodshed that the war on drugs has caused as a necessary cost.