Tag: "violence"

Video: Youth protest against bullfighting in Mexico City

Video: Youth protest against bullfighting in Mexico City

| February 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

Young animal rights activists took to the streets in central Mexico City on Sunday in protest against the hundreds of bullfights that take place here in Mexico.

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Lydia Cacho publishes manual for parents on detecting child abuse

Lydia Cacho publishes manual for parents on detecting child abuse

| January 12, 2009 | Comments (1)

Lydia Cacho’s celebrity was apparent from the get-go last Thursday night in the trendy Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, where the journalist launched her new book “Not With My Child” (Con Mi Hij@ No).

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Mexico should pay attention to International Anti-Corruption Day

Mexico should pay attention to International Anti-Corruption Day

| December 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

Mexicans might be encouraged to do a bit of soul-searching today by a United Nations campaign, which has declared December 9th International Anti-Corruption Day.

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Media advertising campaign targets violence against journalists

Media advertising campaign targets violence against journalists

| December 4, 2008 | Comments (3)

A television, radio and print advertising campaign is to launch here in Mexico in an attempt by press freedom groups to raise public awareness about violence against journalists.

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45 journalists killed in Mexico since 2000; rights body appeals for end to impunity

45 journalists killed in Mexico since 2000; rights body appeals for end to impunity

| November 24, 2008 | Comments (1)

Mexico’s National Commission of Human Rights appealed to authorities over the weekend to investigate thoroughly the recent killings of a number of journalists here, and to put an end to the impunity for those who murder members of the profession.

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Media non-profit appeals for asylum for journalists escaping Mexico

Media non-profit appeals for asylum for journalists escaping Mexico

| November 20, 2008 | Comments (2)

Reporters Without Borders issued an appeal to the international community today to provide asylum for journalists fleeing Mexican cities such a Ciudad Juarez.

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Journalist flees Ciudad Juarez to the U.S

Journalist flees Ciudad Juarez to the U.S

| November 20, 2008 | Comments (2)

Jorge Luis Aguirre, director of the news website “La Polaka,” has fled Mexico with his family to the United States after receiving death threats in his home city of Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Newspaper offices in Northern Mexico attacked with grenades

Newspaper offices in Northern Mexico attacked with grenades

| November 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

Reports are surfacing this morning that the offices of the Culiacán newspaper El Debate were attacked with two grenades early Monday.

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Crime reporter shot to death in Ciudad Juarez

Crime reporter shot to death in Ciudad Juarez

| November 14, 2008 | Comments (5)

Veteran Mexican crime reporter Armando Rodríguez was shot to death yesterday morning while in his car in the border city of Ciudad Juárez.

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More than half of Mexicans surveyed suspect foul play in plane crash

More than half of Mexicans surveyed suspect foul play in plane crash

| November 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

Mexicans don’t have much faith in the word of their government. The natural reaction of many here in Mexico following a plane crash last week that killed Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño has been suspicion.

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Plane crash "an accident", says Mexico government

Plane crash "an accident", says Mexico government

| November 6, 2008 | Comments (3)

The Mexico Government maintains that there is no sign of foul play surrounding the plane crash on Tuesday night here in Mexico City that killed interior minister Juan Camilo Mouriño.

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Two years on, dead U.S journalist remembered on both sides of the border

Two years on, dead U.S journalist remembered on both sides of the border

| October 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

Activists and rights groups marched in remembrance of Brad Will yesterday in the state of Oaxaca, marking the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of the U.S videographer.

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Bajo Juarez campaigns for the dead women of Ciudad Juarez

Bajo Juarez campaigns for the dead women of Ciudad Juarez

| October 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

Lilia Alejandra is one of the 370 women who have disappeared in Mexico’s Chihuahua state since 1993. Her story is the main focus of Bajo Juárez, a documentary film that was five years in the making and opened here in Mexico this weekend.

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Mexico memory march turns violent

Mexico memory march turns violent

| October 3, 2008

Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets yesterday to demand justice for the victims of a mass-killing by Government troops on the night of October 2nd forty years ago. But the protests in Mexico City had a bitter end.

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Marchers remember the dead of October 2nd 1968

Marchers remember the dead of October 2nd 1968

| October 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

Hundreds of students and other Mexicans congregated on Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma, Thursday at 3pm, to march in memory of the hundreds who died that night 40 years ago.

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Mexico to remember massacre 40 years later

Mexico to remember massacre 40 years later

| October 2, 2008 | Comments (1)

Today, people of all ages will march in memory of a massacre that took place forty years ago in Mexico City – an event that remains one of the darkest in the country’s recent and bloody history.

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Arrests made in Mexico grenade attack raise questions

Arrests made in Mexico grenade attack raise questions

| September 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

The arrests pose as many questions as they provide answers.

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Morelia: informality characterizes bombing investigation

Morelia: informality characterizes bombing investigation

| September 22, 2008 | Comments (2)

The most important thing that occurred to me as I’ve perused other media’s coverage, my own, and the scene itself, is how frighteningly informal the attitude of the authorities is to the crime scene itself.

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Video: Mexico Bomb Victim Tells His Story

Video: Mexico Bomb Victim Tells His Story

| September 19, 2008 | Comments (0)

Rafael Bucio, a 30 year old car-parking attendant, was out with his wife and two small children in Morelia, Mexico on Monday night enjoying the Independence celebrations when two grenades went off.

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Morelia bomb victim speaks, blood still on the streets

Morelia bomb victim speaks, blood still on the streets

| September 18, 2008 | Comments (1)

Rafael Bucio was waiting for his mother on the corner of the streets Madero and Quintana Roo in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico Monday night. Behind him, his wife Gloria Alvarez stood in the street with their three-month old child in her arms. They didn’t know that their lives were about to change forever.

“Lots of ambulances and patrol cars started to pass by going to the center – to the cathedral,” explained Bucio Wednesday afternoon from a hospital bed, broken bones in his arm and leg held together by pins. Blood seeped through the bandages onto the white cotton sheet covering the bed.

He was moving closer to his wife, away from the street corner, when he heard a thump.

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Morelia: the aftermath.

Morelia: the aftermath.

| September 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

Yesterday, the public paid their respects at a shrine to the side of the city’s main plaza in Morelia, remembering the seven people killed in Monday night’s bomb attack.

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Video: Mexico’s Military Marches as Citizens React to Yesterday’s Bombings

Video: Mexico’s Military Marches as Citizens React to Yesterday’s Bombings

| September 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

Two explosions during Mexican Independence Day celebrations in the western state of Michoacan killed eight people Monday night and injured dozens more, we reported yesterday.

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