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At Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mayor is decapitated six days after he was sworn in
“In Mexico, the mayor of a major city was murdered six days after he was sworn in. The murder on Sunday underscores the security challenges facing the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum. Emily Green reports. And a warning – some will find the details in this report distressing.” “The killing presents a first big test…
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Is Mexico´s a Mafia State?
At the prestigious Carmen Aristegui´s radio show, two experts (Ricado Ravelo and José Luis Revelo) explain how tied are criminality and the government officials (governors, mayors, members of the cabinet) The organized crime was an apendix of government officials, but no longer. Now them both, organized crime and government, have become one. Is Mexico going…
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The one Mexican presidential candidate against prohibition
“Álvarez Máynez is the only candidate to propose moving from a prohibitionist model to one that regulates drug use. This would include legalizing drug consumption, while decriminalizing possession and taxing the commercialization of these substances.”
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Organized crime, the winner of last Mexican elections?
A columnist of Al Jazeera writes she thinks that, given more than two dozen candidates were assesinated before election day in Mexico, and that most of these assesinations are atributed to “crime outfits conducting their own forms of election”, “it is safe to assume that violence, official corruption, and impunity will remain the name of…
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Operación enjambre
On November 22, 2024, the arrest of the Mayor of Almanalco, as well as part of her cabinet, took place in a coordinated action called Operación Enjambre. The capture of the chief of Security of Ixtapaluca, the director of Public Security of Amanalco, the Chief of Security of Tejupilco, the subdirector of security of Naucalpan,…
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Mexicans don´t prefer Fentanyl
“Use of crystal meth is soaring among workers, partiers and the young and threatening a public health crisis.”
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