La Prensa San Diego

Por Mariana Martinez   Autoridades federales detuvieron a 58 personas en relación al hallazgo del “mega plantío” de 120 hectáreas en una zona rural en Baja California, considerado el más grande en la historia de México.     Los detenidos, que al juzgar por las fotografías son todos hombres mayores de edad, fueron detenidos por elementos [...]

Editor’s Note: The second of two articles on the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity that culminated in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso last weekend.  By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     On Memorial Day, Albuquerque resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border.     The long-distance runner [...]

Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles on Mexico’s Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity that was in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso from June 9-11. By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived late last week to a [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media     The “march” — as it is euphemistically called — is the talk of Mexico’s media and slowly drawing international attention.     After Mexican poet Javier Sicilia’s son, Juan Francisco, and several of his friends were senselessly murdered on March 28 by a drug gang in Morelos, the [...]

Frontera NorteSur     On June 10, hundreds if not thousands of people from Mexican non-governmental organizations are expected to gather in Ciudad Juarez to sign a pact that organizers say is the first step in bringing a halt to the so-called drug war and putting Mexico on a new road to peace, justice and democracy. [...]

Frontera NorteSur     When young women and girls began vanishing in Ciudad Juarez about two decades ago, Esmeralda Castillo was not even born. But in 2009, the 14-year-old middle school student joined the ranks of the disappeared.     “She was a normal girl, just like the rest,” Jose Luis Castillo, Esmeralda’s father, said in an [...]

By Manuel Ortiz Escámez New America Media MEXICO CITY —  Thousands of people — convened by the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, whose son was recently murdered — marched here to demand that the government and organized crime groups end the brutal violence gripping the country.     The protesters — made up of students, Central American [...]

By Rocky Neptun     Maria Sanchez stood silently, leaning on her daughter, with trembling hands, holding an enlarged photo of her son. He had been shot so many times in the face she could only identify his body by tattoos. Andrea, sister to a slain policeman and wife to a motorcycle cop, held a sign [...]

    On March 8th something historic will happen in Mexico. Following a three-day trek from the south, thousands will gather in Mexico City to protest a U.S.-supported militarized drug war that has cost nearly 40,000 lives in just four years.     Young people from across the country will be there, because they are frequent targets of [...]

Commentary: By Daniel Robelo    Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets last week to protest violence related to drug trafficking and the Mexican government’s inability or unwillingness to prevent it.  U.S. and international activists who want to show solidarity with the people of Mexico must recognize that the most effective step we can take [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media     Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday that “nobody is going to be able to stop drug trafficking” from Mexico to the United States. He insisted that the only way to solve the problem would be for his country to legalize the consumption of drugs, while the [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     On a hill overlooking Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Lesly Narvaez Castanon and her staff wage a struggle against substance abuse. Opened in 2005, the government-supported Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Youth Integration Center(CIJ) became the first drug prevention and treatment center to serve this Pacific Coast resort located in the southern state of Guerrero.     [...]

Frontera NorteSur     Mexico-US border police chiefs were at the top of the news in recent days. In a bitter twist to an almost fairytale story that captured the imagination of the US and Mexican press, the 20-year-old  police chief of a small town in the blood-soaked Juarez Valley, Marisol Valles, fled to the US [...]

Commentary: By Patrick Osio    Charlie Sheen may have become the best pitchman for international drug cartels, that, I venture, would gladly pay him the added million a week he demands to continue acting on the cancelled Three and a Half Men television sitcom from the better than $30 billion the cartels rake in annually [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     Stunned by the murders of three people whose lives they tried to save, human rights activists in Ciudad Juarez vow nevertheless to press forward with their movement for justice.     On Saturday, February 26, Elias Reyes Salazar, his sister Magdalena Reyes and Luisa Ornelas, the wife of Elias Reyes, [...]

WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder met to discuss the shooting by unknown assailants of two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents in the line of duty yesterday (Tuesday) while driving in Mexico.    During their meeting, Secretary Napolitano and Attorney General Holder decided to establish a joint [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     Violeta Serrano takes a break from haggling with a couple from Seattle over the price of a beach towel. Part of the wave of people that’s gradually drifted from Acapulco to other vacation destinations in Mexico, Serrano runs a curio shop just off Puerto Vallarta’s popular Los Muertos Beach. [...]