By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero continues his pursuit to put 31 of the nation’s scientists behind bars, the FGR has emerged with accusations against nine former officials of the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) and Consultative, Scientific and Technological Forum (FCCyT) that could land them each up to 82.5
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By KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, an official widely recognized for the blatant and shameless persecution of his perceived opponents that extends into members of his own family, used his power to launch arrest warrants against 31 scientists that revealed his history of plagiarism to the public, more than 600 academics have rallied in support of
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Just three weeks before Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is due to end his six-year term of office, the western Mexican state is rife with social tensions and rampant violence that threaten to embroil the once-rising political star in a scandal that could bury his future ambitions permanently. Aureoles Conejo, who at the beginning
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By KELIN DILLON The members of the Va Por México alliance, which consists of centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), announced they would be going to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday, Aug. 23 to denounce the involvement of organized crime in Mexico’s electrol
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — For decades, Mexico’s northern border has been a magnet for immigrants, both national and international, seeking economic refuge in the United States. But in recent months, the U.S.-Mexico border has also become a destination for thousands of displaced Mexicans who have fled their homes trying to escape the growing violence generated by organized crime
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Prison for Organized Crime
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XINHUA A police convoy was ambushed Thursday afternoon in Coatepec Harinas, a town in central State of Mexico (Edoméx)¿, killing 13 officers, according to local government reports. According to the state’s Security Secretary Rodrigo Martinez-Celis, members of the local police and the prosecutor’s office were ambushed while patrolling. Eight police officers and five prosecutors were killed in the attack, the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Constitution Day Though officially sessions for both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off on Saturday, Feb. 1, the first gathering to discuss legal issues will be on Mexico’s Constitution Day, Feb. 5. By now, 14 months after he was sworn in, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has most of his campaign legislative agenda laid
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By RICARDO CASTILLO March for Truth, Justice and Peace The several thousand participants in the so-called March for Truth, Justice and Peace on Sunday, Jan. 26, were demanding that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) government come up with a strategy to put an end to the apparently endless and seemingly eternal rising number of murders that Mexico is
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