XINHUA At least two people were killed and six others were injured on Friday, Jan. 10, during a shooting at a school in Torreón, a city in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, the mayor of Torreón, Jorge Zermeno Infante, said. Zermeno Infante said in an interview with Mexican TV network Televisa that the event occurred Friday morning at
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Mexico’s Homicide Tree
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) denied Wednesday, Dec. 18, that business owners are in a state of “alarm” over the levels of violent crime, such as armed robbery of cargo trucks. “Of course there are crimes committed on highways and at companies, and there is a problem of insecurity and violence, but there is no situation of
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Supreme Court Judge The Mexican Senate elected Ana Margarita Ríos-Farjat as a new member of the country’s Supreme Court (SCJN). Up until now, lawyer Ríos-Farjat had been working as head of the nation’s Tributary Administrative System (SAT), the Treasury Secretariat unit that oversees the nation’s tax collection. Ríos-Farjat received 94 votes from the senators (a minimum
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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Gripped by Violence
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XINHUA Decreasing Mexico’s high rates of violent crime is the government’s biggest challenge, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Sunday, Dec. 1. “Reducing the country’s crime rate is our principal challenge,” AMLO told a massive crowd of supporters gathered in Mexico City’s central square to mark his first full year in office. “But we are sure that we
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A Nation Imprisoned by Violence
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Kidnappings in Mexico
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