Like other mothers, Patricia Cervantes has heard the promises sung like empty lyrics by a chorus of presidents, governors, and law enforcement authorities. Their reassuring words vow to end impunity and find justice for the murdered daughters. Cervantes, whose 19-year-old daughter Neyra was raped, tortured, and murdered last year in Chihuahua City, has seen authorities [...]
Dashing and handsome, Gabriel Soto shines as the ecological superhero of the currently hot Mexican soap opera Mujer de Madera. He is cast as Carlos Gómez, a passionate, young official of Mexico ‘s Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat who risks his life battling gun-toting caciques (rural bosses), illegal loggers, and psychopathic traffickers of endangered animals. [...]
Payoff Pending for Decades of Human Rights Organizing Outcome of Mexican Dirty War Investigations Up In Air Kent Paterson | April 9, 2003 Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) www.americaspolicy.org When he was running for president of Mexico, Vicente Fox promised a truth commission to clear the historical record of past human rights abuses [...]
[ printer-friendly PDF version ] Allegations of bungled investigations deepen, and Mexico re-invites the FBI onboard Activists See Mixed Signals as Juárez Murder Cases Go to OAS by Kent Paterson | October 21, 2002 Mixed reactions greeted Chihuahua Gov. Patricio Martínez’s Sept. 23, 2002, announcement that three joint government-citizen working groups have been created [...]
Freed Mexican environmentalist says international solidarity played key role in his release. Interview with Rodolfo Montiel by Kent Paterson | May 3, 2002 Free after languishing for more than two years in prison, Mexican peasant activist Rodolfo Montiel recently got a chance to tour several cities in the United States and raise the international [...]
(Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) For many observers, the death of Mario Escobedo came as the final nail in the coffin of this border city’s moribund criminal justice system. An attorney employed by Gustavo Gonzales, one of two men accused late last year of the sex-crime murders of 11 women in Ciudad Juárez, Escobedo was killed on [...]
i n v e s t i g a t i v e r e p o r t Deepening U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation by Kent Paterson | November 1, 2001 Contrary to complaints from Beltway pundits regarding Mexico’s "tepid" response to the September 11 attacks in the United States, the United States’ southern neighbor has [...]
