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Frontera NorteSur The drum beat of protest and revolt beats loudly in southern and southwestern Mexico. First beginning as a teachers’ strike against a new federal education law last February, the protest is now transforming into a broad popular movement against not only the much-touted Pact for Mexico policies of new President Enrique Pena Nieto, [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur The news is horrifying. Night after night and day after day, the stories and images convey the violence. A daylight shooting on a tourist strip, the slaughter of innocent young children and mass killings in public places all are the stuff Mexican media feed to their consumers. But increasingly, the [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur Editor’s Note: Elba Esther Gordillo, the head of Mexico’s powerful teachers’ union, was arrested Tuesday for alleged embezzlement. The move comes as Mexico’s school system is mired in a national debate that has teachers up in arms over how standardized tests should be used to evaluate their performance. Recently approved [...]

Frontera NorteSur As discussion mounted over the issue of an expanded guestworker system in an immigration reform package, a company connected to former Secretary of State Colin Powell found itself in hot water in connection with the employment of Mexican workers in the U.S. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh recently ordered that Silicon Valley-based [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur Undeterred by the official rejection of his legal challenge to the July 2012 election results, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presses on with his opposition movement. Like he was still on the campaign stump, the left opposition leader is touring Mexico and building up his new political party, the National Movement [...]

Frontera NorteSur With little opposition, the Mexican Senate ratified the nomination of Eduardo Medina Mora, last week, as Mexico’s new ambassador to the United States. In a presentation to the Senate’s foreign affairs commission broadcast on the Congress Channel, Medina sketched out his views on the parameters, problems and promises of the Mexico-U.S. relationship. A [...]

By Laura Carlsen His name was José Antonio Elena Rodriguez. At 16, he was just finishing junior high and living with his grandmother on the Mexican side of the border city of Nogales. On October 13, 2012, José Antonio was hit by a hail of bullets coming from the U.S. side of the metal fence [...]

By Laura Carlsen Americas Program The official broadcast showed smiling legislators from the Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI), uniformed in red shawls and red ties, welcoming the triumphant arrival of the president-elect amid cries of “Enrique, Enrique!” It was an almost flawlessly choreographed production, despite occasional cries of protest from the opposition. The presidential [...]

Frontera NorteSur As outgoing Mexican president Felipe Calderon prepares to enter the Ivory Tower of Harvard, skeletons are rattling the walls of Mexico during the last few days of his administration. Within the past week, Mexican authorities have recovered the remains of scores of murder victims from mass grave sites situated in different regions of [...]

Comentario: Por Maribel Hastings WASHINGTON – Con la visita del presidente electo de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, a la capital estadounidense esta semana, son tres los dignatarios que ha tenido el vecino país en los pasados doce años sin que se haya concretado la esquiva reforma migratoria. Y en cierta forma, la visita marca tres diferentes [...]

Frontera NorteSur It’s not every day in the heart-breaking saga of missing migrants in Mexico that a story ends with a happy ending. But a caravan consisting of more than 40 Central American mothers and wrapping up a three-week long Mexican trek reports finding six family members alive and getting leads on the possible whereabouts [...]

Frontera NorteSur In the ongoing political realignments after last July’s disputed Mexican elections, new parties are taking shape while old ones grapple with questions of identity and direction. On Saturday, October 13, veteran politicians formerly associated with parties of different ideological stripes made public their intention of launching a new party called Concertacion Mexicana. The [...]

Frontera NorteSur For the first time, the Mexican flag at the Chamber of Deputies building in Mexico City flew at half mast October 2 in commemoration of the students gunned down by Mexican security forces in the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968. In an example of how October 2 is increasingly recognized in the political and [...]

By Louis Nevaer New America Media MEXICO CITY – Mexicans have long grown weary of their country’s prolonged War on Drugs. Now, with President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto set to take office in December, it appears change may finally be in the offing. That change, however, may not be what most Mexicans were expecting. “A transnational [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur A little more than a week after Mexicans went to the polls, conflict and controversy swirl around the July 1 elections. Almost everywhere-in the halls of Congress, on the Sunday talk shows, in bars and cafes and on the streets-the results are the hot topic of conversation. And claiming fraud, [...]

By Louis E. V. Nevaer New America Media MERIDA, Mexico — In the wake of Mexico’s presidential election Sunday, analysts are expecting Mexico to launch a major “blitzkrieg surge” against the drug cartels during current president Felipe Calderon’s lame duck period. President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto won’t take office until Dec. 1, leaving a five-month period [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur Making a surprise appearance in a television time slot that was previously billed as an official first look at the day’s election results, Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party 8 (PRI) strode before the television cameras late in the evening of July 1 to give [...]