Mexican Human Rights Defenders Say They’re Targets of a Smear Campaign

Staff / Truthdig Apr 25, 2016 On the eve of the release of a report investigating a student massacre in 2014, its authors and other human rights advocates feared an attempt to pre-empt the findings and discredit the work. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Mexicanization of the United States

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 14, 2016 The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Mexicans Have Had Enough of U.S.-Backed Violence and Exploitation

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Nov 20, 2014 The US funding of a "war on drugs" in Mexico, which was supposed to take aim at the traffickers, has instead largely fueled collusion between law enforcement, politicians and criminal syndicates The U . Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Trillions Needed to ‘Green’ the Global Economy

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 24, 2013 An alliance led by former Mexican President Felipe Calderon made a business case for the curbing of global warming to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, saying an unprecedented $14 trillion overhaul would be needed to ensure long-term growth that didn’t wreck the environment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Mexico Made Drug Crisis Worse, New Government Says

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 19, 2012 One legacy of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s drug war is the splitting up of the country’s drug cartels into 60 to 80 new trafficking gangs, Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mexico to Create New Police Force

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 19, 2012 “Mexicans want peace,” said new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto as he announced the establishment of a national police force for combating crime, violence and drug gangs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Painful Price of Numbness

By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch Jul 13, 2012 Drugs are all anesthesia from pain. The ruthless Mexican cartels crave money, which they make from the Yankee craving for numbness. They sell unfeeling, and we buy it, at tens of billions of dollars and thousands of Mexican lives per year. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Mexican Poll & Drug War

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Drug War Hobbles Mexican Economy

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 23, 2012 In addition to having produced 60,000 dead, 20,000 disappeared, hundreds of thousands displaced, wounded or on the run, and tens of thousands widowed or orphaned, Mexico’s drug war -- which seems to be off the radars of that country’s presidential candidates -- is a chain wrapped around the nation's considerable industrial potential. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Court Is Asked to Probe Possibility of Calderon War Crimes in Drug Crackdown

Staff / Truthdig Nov 27, 2011 Mexican human rights activists have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate President Felipe Calderon (above), senior Mexican officials and the country’s most-wanted drug kingpin for allegedly overseeing the capture, torture and killing of civilians in violence surrounding drug trafficking and the government's effort to suppress that illegal trade. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Indignados’ Protest in Mexico City

Staff / Truthdig Sep 12, 2011 After Mexican President Felipe Calderon's fifth state of the nation speech last week, more than 50,000 people gathered in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, to decry policies that have destroyed unions, privatized essential public industries, enriched a small elite and killed more than 50,000 people in the nation's drug war. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Free-Market Anarchy and Nihilism in Mexico

Staff / Truthdig Jun 21, 2011 For the future of unchecked global capitalism, look to the savagery of the drug war in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, says The Guardian's Ed Vulliamy. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )