AMLO and Navarrete iron out differences (In Spanish)

Reforma, 1/26/2009
The Party of the Democratic Revolution’s leader in the Senate, Carlos Navarrete, once again met with Andrés Manuel López Obrador after three months of poor relations. The two PRD figures diagreed about the party’s stance on the energy reform package in the fall of 2008. After Navarrete voted for the reform in the Senate [...]

Ex-Mexican drug czar jailed on corruption charges

Associated Press, 1/26/2009
Prosecutors have arrested a former Mexican drug czar for alleged corruption. Chiapas state Attorney General Raciel Lopez says Mariano Herran was charged with embezzling funds while working as Chiapas economy secretary last year. He gave no further details on Sunday.
Herran was Mexico’s drug czar from 1997 to 2000, replacing Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, [...]

Drug Gangs Have Mexico on the Ropes

The Wall Street Journal, 1/26/2009
A murder in the Mexican state of Chihuahua last week horrified even hardened crime stoppers. Police Commander Martin Castro’s head was severed and left in an ice cooler in front of the police station in the town of Praxedis with a calling card from the Sinoloa drug cartel. According to Mexico’s [...]

Indigenous spur change in fed’s farm worker survey

Associated Press, 1/26/2009
Catarina Lopez was born and raised in Guatemala and lived there for most of her 46 years, but she is not Latina, although many people think she is. Lopez is Maya, a descendant of the inhabitants that populated Central America and parts of Mexico before the Spanish colonized the region in the 1500’s.
Her [...]