During testimony before the US Senate, a top military commander said that the targeting of drug cartel leaders did not have an apparent positive effect in Mexico, an unusual admission…
A new report from Contralinea details the regularity with which judges and magistrates in Mexico are sanctioned for their misdeeds, pointing to the scores of bad apples in…
The US State Department's proposed 2013 budget will reduce military and anti-drug aid to Latin America, including to the traditional largest recipients, Colombia and Mexico.
The US Justice Department will train thousands of Mexican public servants to carry out oral trials, as Mexico rushes to implement a series of sweeping judicial reforms in time for…
Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs has said that the United States multi-million dollar foreign assistance package known as the Merida Inititative has not turned out as the country…
Colombian and Mexican governments have traditionally had distinct aims in their battles against organized crime.
The trafficking of weapons over the U.S.-Mexico border is well-documented -- lesser known but also significant is the sale of U.S. weapons to Guatemalan government contractors, which are then siphoned…
The annual race to chart Mexicos homicide rates has begun, but an examination of the claim that the drug-related killings have levelled off shows the inadequacy of this measure.
The U.S. announced that it would deliver a Black Hawk helicopter to Mexicos Federal Police, honoring its commitments under the Merida Initiative, which aims to boost law enforcement in…
Human Rights Watch provided a thorough critique of Mexicos anti-crime policies, describing a growing pattern of abuses by security officials against a backdrop of stratospheric levels of violence, but the…
In this 213-page report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents over 200 cases of "killings, torture and disappearances" committed by Mexican security forces. The abuses were committed by police, army and…
"A Cautionary Tale: Plan Colombia's Lessons for Mexico and Beyond," uses Colombia's lesson-learned and tries to apply them to the case of Mexico.
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