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"Over the Line": U.S. Agents Shooting Dead Innocent Mexicans Across the Border With Impunity

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 07 (Special Report) - A joint investigation by The Washington Monthly and The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute has found over the past five years U.S. border agents have shot across the border at least 10 times, killing a total of six Mexicans on Mexican soil. The killings have gone unpunished after a court ruled the Mexican victims have no standing to sue in U.S. courts since they died on their own soil. Investigative reporter John Carlos Frey writes: "The picture that emerges from this investigation is of an agency operating with thousands of poorly trained rookies and failing to provide the kind of transparency, accountability, and clear rules of engagement that Americans routinely expect of law enforcement agencies." Frey joins us to discuss the shootings, and why he fears that the current immigration consensus in Washington on "border security" could increase Mexico's civilian toll.

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Obama wraps up Latin American trip, reaffirms hopes for immigration reform

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb - May. 05 (News Report) - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — President Obama on Saturday completed a three-day visit to Mexico and Costa Rica and now returns to Washington with hopes of finishing what could become the biggest accomplishment of his second term: an overhaul of immigration laws. ...

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Obama in Mexico for talks on economy, security

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Julie Pace - May. 02 () - Seeking to put a new spin on a long-standing partnership, President Barack Obama is promoting jobs and trade — not drug wars or border security — as the driving force behind the U.S.-Mexico relationship. But security concerns are shadowing his two-day visit, given Mexico's recent moves to limit American law enforcement access within its borders.

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The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Bribe Its Way Through Expansion in Mexico

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Dec. 20 (Special Report) - New details have emerged in the massive bribery scandal behind Wal-Mart's expansion into Mexico, where the corporate giant now operates one in five of its stores. After exposing the bribery earlier this year, The New York Times has now visited dozens of Mexican towns and cities to document the payoffs the company used to get its way. We're joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who broke the story, David Barstow. As a result of Barstow's reporting, the Justice Department is now considering whether Wal-Mart violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it a crime for American corporations to bribe foreign officials. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Pena Nieto sworn in as Mexico's president, vows big change

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By William Booth - Dec. 02 (News) - Enrique Peña Nieto returned his once autocratic political party to power on Saturday and became the new president of Mexico, saying is was time for his country to assume its rightful and more elevated place in the world.

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Returning Migrant Children Pose Educational Challenge in Mexico

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Alfredo Valadez Rodriguez - Nov. 25 (Special Report) - In different migrant-sending regions of Mexico, educators are coping with the new challenge of teaching children of return migrants who speak little or no Spanish. In the north-central state of Zacatecas, for instance, 150 teachers began a crash course this month in English to help them communicate with new students coming from the United States.

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Vicente Fox: Mitt Romney 'Started On The Wrong Side' On Immigration, Hasn't Necessarily Changed

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Nov. 04 (News Report) - Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, said Saturday he is confounded by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's decision during the GOP primary to align himself with hardliners on immigration, and questioned whether the candidate realized -- or even cared about -- the message it would send to Latino voters.

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Boeing invites suppliers to conference on outsourcing to Mexico

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

seattletimes.com - By Dominic Gates - Oct. 27 (News Report) - "We'd think that Boeing CEO Jim McNerney, as chairman of President Obama's council on exports, would be particularly sensitive to the importance of exporting American products, not jobs," said Wroblewski, via email. "We plan on talking to Boeing about this. We believe it is counterproductive to what we are trying to accomplish here."

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Alabama Immigration Law Causes Labor Shortage, Forces Importation Of Immigrants

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Sep. 24 (News Report) - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Mexican government is reviewing a labor union's complaint that Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigrants violates an international trade agreement.

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Who Stole Mexico's Corn and Jobs?

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Cathryn Wellner - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - As the two presidential candidates square off over immigration reform and Romney touts measures like Arizona’s draconian “papers please” law as models, it might be a good time to examine one of the major reasons for illegal immigration: U.S. trade policy.

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Mexico detains man accused in 'Fast and Furious' killing

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - Sep. 08 (News) - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police detained a man accused of fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent almost two years ago in Arizona in a botched U.S. operation to track guns smuggled across the border, the government said Friday. Federal police detained Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza on Thursday in Sonora state, which borders Arizona, where agent Brian Terry was shot dead in December 2010, the Public Security Ministry said. The Mexican Attorney General's Office plans to extradite Sanchez Meza to the United States, the ministry said in a statement. ...

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The truth about the Fast and the Furious scandal

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Katherine Eban - Jun. 26 (News Report) - Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn.

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Tucson's ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge rules

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Stephen Ceasar - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The ruling affirms a decision by the state schools superintendent and could end classes on Mexican American heritage.

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Journalism in Mexico Faces Threat of Being Completely Silenced

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Maria Armoudian - Oct. 17 (News Report) - Last week, members of a Mexican drug cartel slew yet another journalist for attempting to serve her community. Maria Elizabeth Macias' mutilated remains were found beside a note apparently written by the Zetas cartel in which they claimed revenge for her online exposes and criticism.

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Gunwalker: The ATF’s Kenneth Melson Blows the Whistle on the Justice Department

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Hans von Spakovsky - Jul. 06 (Breaking News) - Contrary to the Justice Department’s denials, according to Melson, ATF agents specifically witnessed transfers of weapons from straw purchasers to third parties without taking any further action. Melson claimed that it was not until the public disclosure of the operation that he personally reviewed the “hundreds of documents” related to the case. He said he became “sick to his stomach” when he learned the full story. Even more shocking is that some of the “gun trafficking ‘higher-ups’ that the ATF sought to identify were already known to other agencies and may even have been paid as informants” by agencies such as the FBI and the DEA.

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Horse welfare declines after closing of U.S. slaughter plants

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

billingsgazette.com - By Jan Falstad - Jun. 25 (News Report) - The closure of the last U.S. horse slaughter plants in the fall of 2007 has failed to reduce the number of horses shipped to slaughter.

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Mexican troops replace police in half a state that borders Texas

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Mariano Castillo - Jun. 25 (News) - Mexican troops fanned out across the border state of Tamaulipas this weekend, taking over security operations in half the state's cities and towns.

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Critic of ATF gun-trafficking program raised no objection when briefed last year

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jerry Markon, Sari Horwitz - Jun. 22 (News Report) - A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

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La Familia drug cartel defeated, says Mexico

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:27:54 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Sara Miller Llana - Jun. 22 (News) - La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, has been arrested and Mexican authorities contend that the group's reign in the state of Michoacán has come to an end.

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New Report: U.S. Encouraged Gun Sales to Drug Cartels, 70% of Seized Mexico Guns Are From U.S.

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Some 70 percent of guns seized in Mexico from 2009 to 2010 came from the United States, according to a new report from three U.S. senators. The report finds Mexican drug cartels are arming themselves with U.S. military-style weapons and urges a strengthening of U.S. regulations to stem the flow of guns to Mexico. It comes as lawmakers are holding hearings into a once-secret government plan to encourage U.S. gun shops to sell thousands of guns to middlemen for Mexican drug cartels. The operation, called "Fast and Furious," focused on using middlemen to gain access to senior-level figures within Mexico’s criminal organizations.

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Mexican Peace Caravan Arrives in U.S. to Call for End to Deadly Drug War Policy

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 15 (News Report) - A caravan of Mexican anti-violence protesters arrived in the United States over the weekend calling for a massive shift in U.S. drug policy. Mexican poet, Javier Sicilia, led the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity following the brutal murder of his 24-year-old son by drug traffickers earlier this year. The caravan's demands include an end to the Merida Initiative, in which the United States provides training and support for the Mexican army in its "war on drugs." We speak to Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Policy Program of the Center for International Policy, and play an excerpt from her interview with Sicilia as she traveled with him to document the caravan’s journey.

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American Banks 'High' On Drug Money

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Clarence Walker - Jun. 12 (Investigative Report) - A fraud investigator helped expose the shocking world of multi-billion dollar drug laundering by American banks and the surprising lack of oversight by the Feds. Martin Woods, an Englishman in his mid-40s, is blessed with a Sherlock Holmes instinct and demeanor. Woods is an expert at sniffing out "dirty" money passing through International Banking Systems. A police officer for 18 years and later a detective with London Metro Police Agency, Woods capitalized on his unique expertise as a fraud expert by joining Wachovia's London-based Bank in March 2005 as an anti-money laundering officer. It wasn't long after taking the job that he discovered that his own employer, one of America's leading banks, was a major player in aiding the "bloodthirsty" Mexico drug cartels to launder billions of dollars in drug money through Wachovia banks. Woods traced and identified a "number of suspicious transactions" related to Mexico-based Casa de Cambios (CDC).

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Global war on drugs has 'failed'

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 02 (News) - The global war on drugs has "failed" and legalisation would be a better option, according to a new report by group of politicians and former world leaders.

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28 dead, 700 flee as gang battles hit west Mexico

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Gustavo Ruiz - May. 26 (News) - the Norway-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre... estimates about 230,000 people in Mexico have been driven from their homes, often to stay with relatives or in the United States

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"A War on Civilians": Mexico’s Drug War Draws Protests as Grueling Death Toll Grows

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Molly Molloy - May. 11 (Interview) - A march against the U.S.-backed war on drugs drew 20,000 people into the streets of Mexico City on Sunday, calling attention to the country's gruesome drug war-related violence that has claimed more than 38,000 lives since Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched the campaign against drug traffickers and cartels in 2006. Congress has appropriated $1.5 billion for Mexico’s drug war since 2008. The march began in the central Mexican state of Morelos, led by the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, whose 24-year-old son was killed by gunmen earlier this year. We speak with Molly Molloy, an expert on the drug war and U.S.-Mexican border issues, and co-editor of the new book, "El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin." "I believe it’s a war on the Mexican people, carried out by the Mexican government," Molloy says.

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