Fox News: The lawyer for a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged in Mexico in the shooting death of a teenager along the Rio Grande is rebuffing calls from a Mexican government official that he be sent to there for trial.
Gov. Cesar Duarte of the Mexican state of Chihuahua demanded Thursday that Jesus Mesa be extradited to face murder charges in the June 2010 killing of 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Guereca. Mesa was on a bicycle patrol alongside the river that divides Texas and Mexico when the boy — among some youths tossing rocks at the officer — was fatally shot. read more
The MexicoBlog of the CIP Americas Program monitors and analyzes international press on Mexico with a focus on the US-backed War on Drugs in Mexico and the struggle in Mexico to strengthen the rule of law, justice and protection of human rights. Relevant political developments in both countries are also covered.
May 4, 2012
Mexico Antitrust Agency Drops Telcel’s $925 Million Fine
NYTimes.com: " Mexico’s antitrust commission said on Thursday that it was dropping a fine of nearly $1 billion against the local unit of the wireless carrier América Móvil in return for a promise by the company to change its pricing practices.
The deal requires the company, Telcel, which controls about 70 percent of Mexico’s wireless market, to stop giving its customers discounted rates for calls to other Telcel users, a policy that competitors say has made it hard to compete.
Telcel also agreed to accept lower interconnection fees for calls placed into its network by mobile users from other companies. Mexico’s telecommunications regulator lowered the fees last year, but Telcel has been fighting them in court. The company said it would drop its lawsuits and accept the fees through 2014. read more
The deal requires the company, Telcel, which controls about 70 percent of Mexico’s wireless market, to stop giving its customers discounted rates for calls to other Telcel users, a policy that competitors say has made it hard to compete.
Telcel also agreed to accept lower interconnection fees for calls placed into its network by mobile users from other companies. Mexico’s telecommunications regulator lowered the fees last year, but Telcel has been fighting them in court. The company said it would drop its lawsuits and accept the fees through 2014. read more
Mexico's leftist tries to overcome past mistakes
Fox News: For a man whose anger and inflexibility may have cost him his dreams of the presidency, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is surprisingly calm and friendly on the campaign trail.
In his second presidential bid, the white-haired shopkeeper's son beloved by many poor Mexicans rides the subway, waits in airports for economy flights, patiently poses for pictures with supporters and even lobs verbal roses at Mexico's business community in what he has dubbed his "Republic of Love" campaign.
It is a far cry from the fiery orator who during his 2006 presidential run told then-President Vicente Fox to "shut up, chachalaca (noisy bird)" and said "let the devil take your (political) institutions." Adding to his problems that year, he decided to skip one of the only two candidates' debates and bitterly accused Mexico's corporations, television stations and newspapers of conspiring against him. read more
In his second presidential bid, the white-haired shopkeeper's son beloved by many poor Mexicans rides the subway, waits in airports for economy flights, patiently poses for pictures with supporters and even lobs verbal roses at Mexico's business community in what he has dubbed his "Republic of Love" campaign.
It is a far cry from the fiery orator who during his 2006 presidential run told then-President Vicente Fox to "shut up, chachalaca (noisy bird)" and said "let the devil take your (political) institutions." Adding to his problems that year, he decided to skip one of the only two candidates' debates and bitterly accused Mexico's corporations, television stations and newspapers of conspiring against him. read more
Drug war slayings suppressing news in Mexico
The Seattle Times: "Four of reporters and photographers covering the perilous crime beat have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz state, where two Mexican drug cartels are warring over control of smuggling routes and targeting sources of independent information.
The brutal campaign is bleeding the media and threatens to add Veracruz to the growing list of states where fear snuffs out reporting on the drug war.
Three photojournalists who covered crime in the port city of Veracruz were found dismembered and dumped in plastic bags in a canal Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative national newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in the state capital of Xalapa" read more
The brutal campaign is bleeding the media and threatens to add Veracruz to the growing list of states where fear snuffs out reporting on the drug war.
Three photojournalists who covered crime in the port city of Veracruz were found dismembered and dumped in plastic bags in a canal Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative national newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in the state capital of Xalapa" read more
3 Mexico journalists slain, dumped in bags in drug gang-plagued Veracruz
CBS News: "Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain and dumped in plastic bags in a canal on Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in the same state.
Press freedom groups said all three photographers had temporarily fled the state after receiving threats last year. The organizations called for immediate government action to halt a wave of attacks that has killed at least seven current and former reporters and photographers in Veracruz over the last 18 months.
Like most of those slain, the men found Thursday had been among the few journalists left working on crime-related stories in the state. Threats and killings have spawned an atmosphere of terror and self-censorship among the journalists of Veracruz, leaving most local media outlets too intimidated to report on drug-related violence. Social media and blogs are often the only outlets reporting on serious crime." read more
Press freedom groups said all three photographers had temporarily fled the state after receiving threats last year. The organizations called for immediate government action to halt a wave of attacks that has killed at least seven current and former reporters and photographers in Veracruz over the last 18 months.
Like most of those slain, the men found Thursday had been among the few journalists left working on crime-related stories in the state. Threats and killings have spawned an atmosphere of terror and self-censorship among the journalists of Veracruz, leaving most local media outlets too intimidated to report on drug-related violence. Social media and blogs are often the only outlets reporting on serious crime." read more
May 3, 2012
Mexico drug violence: Sinaloa shootout leaves 12 dead
BBC News: "A gunfight between the Mexican army and suspected drug gang members has left at least 12 people, including two soldiers, dead, officials say.
The clash happened in Guasave in the north-western state of Sinaloa.
Gunmen using grenades and automatic weapons ambushed an army patrol before retreating to a hotel as police and military reinforcements closed in.
Sinaloa is one of the Mexican states worst affected by drug-related violence." read more
The clash happened in Guasave in the north-western state of Sinaloa.
Gunmen using grenades and automatic weapons ambushed an army patrol before retreating to a hotel as police and military reinforcements closed in.
Sinaloa is one of the Mexican states worst affected by drug-related violence." read more
Obama’s Drug Czar Stumps for ‘Third Way’ Policy
ABC News: "To hear President Obama’s drug czar tell it, the leading voices on drug policy are kind of crazy.
“Over the past few years, this public debate on drug policy lurches between two extreme views,” White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske said during a speech today at the Center for American Progress.
“On one side we have a very vocal, organized, well-funded advocates who insist that drug legalization is a ‘silver bullet’ for addressing our nation’s drug problem. Then we have the other side. On the other side of the debate are those who insist that a law-enforcement-only, ‘War on Drugs’ approach … is the way to create a drug free society,” Kerlikowske said." read more
“Over the past few years, this public debate on drug policy lurches between two extreme views,” White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske said during a speech today at the Center for American Progress.
“On one side we have a very vocal, organized, well-funded advocates who insist that drug legalization is a ‘silver bullet’ for addressing our nation’s drug problem. Then we have the other side. On the other side of the debate are those who insist that a law-enforcement-only, ‘War on Drugs’ approach … is the way to create a drug free society,” Kerlikowske said." read more
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