The Guardian: Congress is heading for a new showdown with the White House after Republicans took the rare step of voting to declare the attorney-general Eric Holder in contempt over a botched smuggling operation aimed at Mexican drug cartels.
The Republican-controlled House oversight committee, which has been investigating the sting operation along the Mexican border, voted 23 to 17 on Wednesday in favour of a recommendation to start proceedings against Holder for alleged contempt of Congress. Read more.
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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