Slideshow: Mexican mid-terms in Oaxaca City
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Tagged: Mexico
Independents, spoiled ballots and boycotts mark Mexico’s mid-term elections
Mexico held mid-term elections on Sunday. Voting was uneventful in most parts of the country, with notable exceptions in the southern states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas. Shannon Young reports form Oaxaca City. Download...
Indigenous police commander Nestora Salgado on hunger strike in Mexican maximum security prison
A naturalized U.S. citizen held in a maximum security prison in Mexico has escalated her weeks-long hunger strike by announcing she will no longer drink liquids. Political prisoners in Mexico are often placed in...
Striking Mexican farmworkers score tentative victory in San Quintin
Farmworkers at export-oriented megafarms in northwestern Mexico have secured a tentative victory in their two-month-long strike. Shannon Young has more. Download Audio Thousands of farmworkers gathered under the open sky in Mexico’s San Quintin...
Mexican police raid neighborhood of striking farmworkers as labor negotiations stagnate
An ongoing strike by farmworkers at export-oriented megafarms in the Mexican state of Baja California took a tense turn over the weekend. Shannon Young reports. Download Audio The Transpeninsular Highway which connects the megafarms...
Thousands of farmworkers strike against work conditions in Mexico’s San Quintin Valley
Thousands of farmworkers are on strike in the Mexican agricultural hub of San Quintin. The protests erupted last week with farmworkers blocking a key highway of the Baja California peninsula to call for better...
Top Mexican journalist fired on heels of whistleblower platform’s launch
[Editors note: The following story was originally posted Monday, March 16, 2015 but updated with new information on March 20th for the Weekly Edition. Audio of original version available here.] The sudden firing of...
Independent, international experts question Mexico’s handling of missing students case
Argentine forensic anthropologists contracted as independent experts in the investigation of the 43 students that went missing in the Mexican state of Guerrero have publicly distanced themselves from the federal government’s official story about...
Mexican authorities find 61 bodies in an abandoned crematorium in Guerrero state
In Mexico, authorities have discovered 61 decomposing bodies in an abandoned crematorium in Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero. Shannon Young reports from Oaxaca. Download Audio Residents of the community near the facility...
Mexico ends probe of 43 disappeared students; families still demand proof
Mexican authorities have officially closed the investigation into the 43 students who went missing in Iguala in September. The case has become emblematic of Mexico’s larger crisis of disappearances at the hands of state...
