Mexico’s Rights Agency Says Police Killed 22 at Ranch

Federal police killed at least 22 people on a ranch last year, then moved bodies and planted guns to corroborate the official account that the deaths happened in a gunbattle, Mexico’s human rights commission said Thursday. One police officer was killed in the confrontation in the western state of Michoacan on May 22, 2015. The […]

Mexico Miss World pageant director shot dead in targeted attack

The director of the Miss World beauty pageant in Mexico has been shot dead in a targeted attack just hours after crowning the provincial winner for the violence-plagued state of Sinaloa. Hugo Rubén Castellanos Jiménez, 39, was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning, shortly after he and a friend were abducted by several masked gunmen […]

Human trafficking among Mexico’s lucrative crimes

Human trafficking generates more than $2.4 billion in revenues worldwide, Alegret Cendejas said, citing findings from the Global Report on Trafficking in Person 2014, the most recent report the UNODC has published.

Nine dead and dozens injured in deadly protests in Mexico

This is not the first time the group has protested the educational reforms that blame the teachers for the poor education system but these protests turned violent when some of their leaders were recently arrested for money laundering.