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Drug war death toll passes 10,000 for the year
According to the tally kept by Reforma, the death toll from the drug war passed the 10,000 mark this week, reaching 10,035 killed since the start of the year. This surpasses 2009′s full year record by...
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Killing of ‘Tony Tormenta’ keeps Marines on top
Naval marines surrounded and killed the leader of the Gulf Cartel, Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén, aka Tony Tormenta and four of his bodyguards in a pitched battle in the border city of Matamoros....
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Data: Drug war massacres
Following are the tallies in the large-scale killings or massacres that have occurred this year, pieced together from a variety of sources.
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Calderón vetoes corporate law change
In a rare use of his veto power, President Felipe Calderón vetoed a change in corporate law that would have allowed for single shareholder corporate entitities. The President vetoed the measure not...
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Pemex acknowledges production losses from security situation
In an interview, Carlos Morales Gil, the head of production and exploration for Pemex, acknowledged that the state oil company has had to shut in gas production of 150,000 cubic feet/day in the Burgos...
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Long-delayed ‘incentivated contracts’ go to Pemex board
More than two years after the passage of the energy reform, one of its critical elements — the so-called incentivated or integrated service contracts for oil exploration by private sector contractors–...
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Chamber of Deputies Ready to Approve Expenditure Law
On today’s legal deadline, the Chamber of Deputies appears set to approve the expenditure law for 2011. The Finance Commission unanimously approved the expenditure proposal at 2am. The President’s...
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Calderón reshuffles cabinet with an eye to 2012 campaign
On Saturday, President Felipe Calderón announced a cabinet reshuffle, with an eye to the 2012 election. Juan Molinar Horcasitas, one of Calderón’s closest political advisers, resigned as Secretary of...
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Government data shows 15,000 organized crime-related homicides in 2010
The government released for the first time comprehensive data (Mexico Segob homicide database) on killings related to organized crime. Ministry of Government spokesman Alejandro Poiré said the...
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PRI blocks calls for investigation of killings of women in Mexico State...
A report released by the Mexico State Justice Ministry on the 922 killings of women that took place between January 2005 and August 2010 essentially blamed the victims. The report attributed the...
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