Monthly Archives: February 2015

Groups Call for New Constitution

Civil Society Group Issues Call to Create New Constitution Arising from the People REFOUNDING MEXICO. From left: Javier Sicilia, Lydia Cacho [journalist], Leticia Gutiérrez, Alejandro Solalinde, Francisco Toledo, Raúl Vera and Dan Gonzalez were some of the participants in the presentation of the Citizen and Popular Constitutional Assembly Photo Roberto Garcá Ortiz La Jornada: Carolina Gómez… Continue Reading

Attorney General declares the governments version of the dissappearance of Ayotzinapa students a historic truth

Mexico in Crisis: Warriors United Cartel Killed 43 Disappeared Ayotzinapa Normal School Students – Attorney General La Jornada: Gustavo Castillo García: Jan. 28 Jesús Murillo Karam, head of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), declared that the “historic truth” of what happened in the so-called Iguala case is already known. Thus, he said, the case should… Continue Reading

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) is not buying governments version of Ayotzinapa’s 43 missing students

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) is not buying governments version of Ayotzinapa’s 43 missing students

Mexico in Crisis-Ayotzinapa: Argentine Forensic Team Goes Nose to Nose with Government’s Version Proceso: Marcela Turati posted Feb 9thMexico City – The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) responded to criticism made today by the PGR [Attorney General’s Office] for contradicting its “historic truth” about the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. In an interview,* the… Continue Reading

New Judicial Reforms in Mexico: Will anything really change?

New Judicial Reforms in Mexico: Will anything really change?

Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera (center left)  and  Secretary of Government Relations [SEGOB] Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong (center right) bang gavels to bring new criminal justice system into effect Photo: Cuartoscuro Sinembargo: Mayela Sánchez Mexico City, January 17, 2015 – Implementation of the new criminal justice system in the Federal District [Mexico City], which began… Continue Reading

A Dog Named Oso Needs to be Adopted

This year Mexican lawmakers finally enacted cruelty to animals legislation. Anyone who is familiar with recent events in Ayotzinapa realize that in Mexico it is hard to enforce laws that are supposed to protect the human rights of people let alone animals but traditionally under worked and over paid Mexican legislators non the less have… Continue Reading

The dead will not be forgotten so quickly

Mexico in Crisis: Peña Nieto As Macbeth La Jornada: Luis Hernández Navarro Translated by Sally Seward The ghost of Lady Macbeth has appeared before Enrique Peña Nieto. For the past four months the extrajudicial killing and the forced disappearance of 43 rural normal school students from Ayotzinapa are following him wherever he goes. And where… Continue Reading