Topic: Mexico

  • Protesting the return of the PRI

    Mexico's student movement battled with police in the capital to protest the inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto.

  • The horrific toll of a failed war

    Six years after Mexico's president declared war on drug cartels, the body count has reached staggering proportions.

  • Mexico's election or "imposition"?

    Claims that a conservative won Mexico's presidential election amid allegations of fraud are stoking nationwide protests.

  • Mexico's "perfect dictatorship"

    The return of Mexico's PRI to power comes in the face of an escalating conflict, the violence of which is palpable even across its borders.

  • A student upsurge in Mexico

    Students in Mexico are challenging the media's promotion of the leading presidential candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto.

  • Can a reformer win Mexico's presidency?

    Andres Manuel López Obrador is again promising programs to aid workers and the poor as he campaigns for president.

  • Why Mexico's elections will matter

    Mexico's elections this coming July could mark an escalation of violence or a turning point for one of the U.S.'s largest trading partners.

  • Misery of the maquiladoras

    The maquiladoras along the border produce big profits for U.S. multinationals--but suffering for Mexican workers.

  • Mexico's losing war on drugs

    Tens of thousands of people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico, but the government's "war on drugs" has only increased the toll.

  • Paramilitary murder in Oaxaca

    Two human rights advocates delivering aid to a town under siege were murdered by pro-government paramilitaries on April 27.

  • Who killed Margarito Montes?

    The horrific massacre of a Mexican union leader and his family is being blamed on drug gangs, but that leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

  • Challenging the maquila bosses

    Two labor and community activists in Mexico describe the fight for justice at an auto parts factory in the northern maquila zone.

  • A Mexican union fights for its life

    Electrical workers in Mexico are mobilizing to defend their union after police occupied workplaces and the government fired 44,000 unionists.

  • Repression in Tampico

    Residents of the Mano con Mano colony of Tampico, Mexico, have been violently forced off of their land and their houses have been destroyed.

  • Anger shows through in Mexico's election

    Mexico's recent elections show discontent with an economic crisis that seems to never end--and the lack of a political alternative.

  • Mexico's right wins oil privatization

    The scheme to privatize PEMEX won support not only from the corrupt establishment, but from many representatives of the chief opposition party.

  • A loud "no" to privatization in Mexico

    Voters in Mexico City and nine states overwhelmingly rejected the government's plan to privatize portions of Mexico's state-owned oil company.

  • Who will control Mexico's oil?

    Proposed legislation on Mexico's oil industry could create for the U.S. an "association of capitals"--privatization, by another name.