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Moms Share Personal Experiences of Drug War Devastation  Moms United presents the “Mom’s Bill of Rights”  Mothers will join with law enforcement and other allies on the steps of the San Diego Hall of Justice, to bring focus to the failed war on drugs. This event is part of a campaign comprised of national organizations [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media LOS ANGELES — Javier Sicilia looks tired. The 56 year-old Mexican poet, essayist, journalist and novelist has been going non-stop since March 28th of last year, which is the day he acquired a distinction that is every Mexican’s nightmare: to be a member of one of the roughly [...]

By Laura Carlsen The starting bell rang for the Mexican presidential campaigns on March 30, and the candidates are out of the gates. As the nation faces an unprecedented crisis in levels of violence and lawlessness, one of the big issues is who will have to take the blame for the disastrous war on drugs. [...]

By Laura Carlsen There are many kinds of war. The classic image of a uniformed soldier kissing mom good-bye to risk his life on the battlefield has changed dramatically. In today’s wars, it’s more likely that mom will be the one killed. UNIFEM states that by the mid-1990s, 90% of war casualties were civilians– mostly [...]

Por Mariana Martinez     El aire en el salón es húmedo y enrarecido, bajo las lozas color durazno se levanta una jaula cuadrada subida por un motor hidráulico que rechina un poco.     EL General Gilberto Landeros, jefe de la Segunda Zona Militar, cree que el elevador se trababa seguido en el trasiego de droga [...]

Commentary: By Kent Paterson Fronter NorteSur    A friend and I were having a conversation when he raised the issue of why the US never seems to detain its own big drug lords. I held that control of the US drug market was more diffuse, less centralized than in places like Mexico, where big traffickers [...]

    The offices of the Mexican daily El Buen Tono in the city of Córdoba in the south-eastern state of Ver-acruz were almost totally destroyed in an early morning arson attack two days ago, barely a month after it was launched.     “A description obtained by Reporters Without Borders from the newspaper’s publisher, Julio Fentanes [...]

Por: Paco Zavala     El artista Enrique Chiu, es quien organiza este magno evento denominado “Extravaganza Music Fest 2011”, en el que se reúnen músicos reconocidos en el ámbito nacional e internacional pertenecientes a más de 20 bandas de música Reggae, Ska, Rock Alternativo y Jazz, también participan artistas plásticos locales nacionales e internacionales, además [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media REYNOSA, Tamaulipas, Mexico—It takes 30 minutes to reach Reynosa, Mexico, from McAllen, Texas. But it only takes 30 seconds to realize that it’s a town under siege.     It’s a regular business day but most of the businesses are closed or empty. “For Sale” signs are everywhere. Most [...]

By Mariana Martinez     Sixty people were arrested after a yearlong investigation linking the Iraqi community at El Cajon with Mexico’s most prominent drug cartel, The Sinaloa cartel lead by “El Chapo.”     The arrests came after a long undercover investigation lead by DEA and El Cajon Police Department, called Operation Shadowbox. Authorities still consider [...]

Por Mariana Martinez     Sesenta personas fueron detenidas en un operativo que vincula a la comunidad iraquí de El Cajón con el cartel del Chapo a quien acuden para conseguir drogas, armamento y granadas.     Las 60 personas fueron detenidas tras un operativo  de vigilancia de 8 meses, dirigido por la DEA y la policía [...]

Guest Editorial: By Justin Akers Chacon    The increasing involvement of the United States in Mexico’s drug war is only going to make a bad situation worse.    It will likely lead to more deaths. It will be a drain on our treasury. And it’s unlikely to stem the flow of drugs. This is because [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media     They command an army of thousands: men, women, even children north and south of the US-Mexico border. They build tunnels, and dispatch submarines and customized armored vehicles. They load planes, trucks, and railroad containers with drugs and other illicit cargo. In bulk, they buy arms and political [...]

Perspective By José de la Isla Hispanic Link  MEXICO CITY—Two military-grade weapons were found alongside the murdered body of U.S. Border Patrol agent in December. The guns were part of an arsenal ATF agents were presumably tracking but lost track of.     Evidently, similar weapons were allowed from Houston and Tampa.     About 2,000 weapons [...]

Frontera NorteSur     Mexico’s ongoing spasm of violence and mayhem is frequently portrayed in the US media as a Mexican phenomenon that threatens to spill across the nation’s borders and sweep up hapless cities in the relentless expansion of powerful, foreign criminal organizations.     Looking south, many US citizens gasp in horror as they watch [...]

By Jose Luis Sierra New America Media Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico – This week, four men were convicted for their role in the “Villa Salvarcar Massacre,” the now infamous case in which young people – mostly teenagers – gathered at a birthday party on the outskirts of Juarez on January 30, 2010, were gunned down [...]

By Mariana Martinez     Mexican Federal Authorities’ have arrested 58 people in connection to the nearly 300 acre mega-marihuana-field found in Baja California, considered one of the largest in Mexico’s history.     Based on the pictures published by Federal Agencies, all of those arrested are men who were arrested by military in the small town [...]