By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s heightened military presence on its southern border with Guatemala has resulted in a 79 percent increase in arrests of undocumented Central American migrants since its new patrol policy went into effect on June 21, said Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval. According to Sandoval, border patrols have increased in the region since June 21, as
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 29, parents and families of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa who disappeared in September 2014 took to a conference to express their disappointment and angry feelings toward the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In its three years in office thus far, the López Obrador administration has done little to resolve
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By KELIN DILLON Several years after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) canceled the construction of Mexico’s New International Airport (NAICM) in 2018 in favor of building the purportedly less-expensive Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) in the region, new figures have revealed that the AIFA has cost the Mexican government 116 billion pesos as of mid-March 2022 – a
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By KELIN DILLON A new report by Mexico’s Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) detailing the expenditure of the government’s public mega-projects, executed through the compilation of 15 financial and performance audits, has revealed inherent disorder, delays and irregularities found within the construction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet projects, like the Tren Maya, the Dos Bocas
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By KELIN DILLON Throughout the last year under the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Secretariat of Defense (Sedena) has increased its spending on bidless contracts by 64 percent, with many of the awarded contracts going to recently created companies or enterprises billed at a residential address. In 2020, Sedena directly distributed some 6.3 billion pesos
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By KELIN DILLON Seven years after 43 male students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were kidnapped and disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, the students’ parents have demanded the federal government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) deepen investigation into the army’s purported role in the tragic event. Allegations and evidence of the 27 Infantry Battalion of Iguala’s involvement
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Secretariat of Defense (Sedena) will allocate 11 million pesos for the purchase of 36 drones, with seven different companies vying for the contract and the winner set to be revealed on Sept. 22. The country’s defense sector plans to purchase remotely piloted drones capable of 30 minutes minimum of flight time with a radius of at
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By KELIN DILLON New reports from the controversial construction of Mexico’s new airport, which is newly under jurisdiction of the nation’s military, say workers on the project are allegedly being charged some 20 to 30 percent of their salaries to continue working there by their military superiors. The workers, many of whom come from the cancelled New Mexico International Airport
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By KELIN DILLON New reports show the toxic agrochemical glyphosate has been used regularly throughout Mexico’s Sembrando Vida (“Sowing Life”) program, which was created to help dually combat environmental degradation and combat poverty in the country, by the Secretariat of Defense (Sedena). According to the findings, 10 of the program’s nurseries throughout eight Mexican states were affected by the Sedena’s
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