In May 2006, over 45 women were arrested without explanation in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico. Many were subjected to physical, psychological and sexual violence by the police officers who arrested them and then held in prison for days before being released on bail. More than three years have passed and they are still waiting for [...]
Carlos Beltran Leyva, the suspected boss of one of Mexico’s major drugs cartels, was arrested in Culiacan, capital of the northern state of Sinaloa officials say.
The problem for Mexico is that corruption is rife throughout the police and judiciary. The police are in league with the drug cartels and kidnapping gangs. This makes success such as the above against criminal gangs rare.
Bradley (Brad) Roland Will was an American human rights activist and journalist. He worked with the Indymedia New York centre as a documentary film-maker. It was on an assignment that he was murdered at the age of 36 on October 27, 2006.
Here is a report from Amnesty International demanding justice for murdered journalist Brad Will. Brad was a US video journalist, he was shot and killed in Oaxaca City, southern Mexico. It was on
27 October 2006 while filming a clash between members of a local protest movement (Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca, APPO) and supporters and officials of the local governing party.
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