InSightCrime: "The mayor of a small town in northern Mexico has announced that his people are on the verge of arming themselves in response to a series of clashes between cartel gunmen that have plagued the town for months.
Mexico’s El Diario reports that the town of Uruachi in Chihuahua state, which borders on Texas and New Mexico, has been virtually under siege since the beginning of the year, when fights between rival criminal organizations began to increase in frequency. These skirmishes came to a head on September 9, when a dozen gunmen descended on the town looking for several individuals."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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