May 26, 2023

I Spy

Pegasus spyware was deployed against members of the Mexican president’s inner circle who are investigating alleged abuses by the military, the Washington Post reported this week. Sources and digital rights advocates said Alejandro Encinas, Mexico’s undersecretary for human rights and a close friend to President Andrés...

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May 02, 2023

The Redistribution

Mexico’s upper house of parliament approved a package of laws this week, including a contentious mining reform that sparked concerns from the country’s mining chamber and its trade partner Canada, Reuters reported. Lawmakers of the ruling Morena party and its allies approved the bills, including two...

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April 20, 2023

No, Sir

Mexico’s top court struck down part of a law that would put day-to-day public security forces under military control, a verdict that deals a blow to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who pushed for the legislation, the Financial Times reported. The case centers on Mexico’s National...

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March 31, 2023

Trapped

Mexican authorities launched an investigation into the fire that killed at least 39 migrants inside an immigrant detention center near the US border Monday, an incident that has prompted criticism over the government’s immigration policies, the Guardian reported Thursday. To date, Mexican officials said they had...

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March 29, 2023

Word Smiths

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this week defended the insertion of phrases and words in grade-school textbooks that many teachers have long considered to be ungrammatical, the Associated Press reported. His comments came after copies of new textbooks posted on social media showed a number...

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March 28, 2023

The Forever Search

In what the BBC called a “twisted moral code,” Mexican mobsters affiliated with the Scorpions Group, a faction of the drug-running Gulf Cartel crime syndicate, recently forced five of their members to turn themselves in to police for murdering two of the four Americans they...

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February 28, 2023

Tinkering With Votes

Tens of thousands of Mexicans marched in the streets across the country Sunday to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s overhaul of the electoral system, a move many critics believe will threaten democracy and influence next year’s elections, Bloomberg reported. Demonstrations took place in more than...

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October 05, 2022

Across the Rio Grande

A US federal court rejected the Mexican government’s $10 billion lawsuit against US-based gun manufacturers, which accused the companies of facilitating the trafficking of weapons across the US-Mexico border to drug cartels, Reuters reported. Last year, the Mexican government sued a number of gunmakers, including Smith...

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September 29, 2022

The Big Stall

The special prosecutor investigating the 2014 kidnapping and disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico resigned this week, a move that raised concerns among the students’ families about the lagging pace of the long-running probe, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced...

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August 16, 2022

The General’s Generals

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is attempting to introduce a constitutional amendment to extend the military’s control over policing, a move that many critics called a slide toward authoritarianism, the Associated Press reported. López Obrador proposed plans to make the quasi-military National Guard a part...

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