The War for the Control of Sonora
Groups of organized crime members confront each other on a daily basis in Northern areas of the State of Sonora. There is a fierce struggle for the control of drugs trafficking towards the U.S. In every clash occurring there are dozen of hitmen armed with AK-47, Barret rifles and grenade launchers. The authorities, being either overrun or colluded, have failed in stopping the violence. The government of Guillermo Padrés has launched a media campaign in order to position his State as “the safest of the border”, meanwhile peasants have to leave their communities and seek for shelter aside their family members in places where they are not extorted, robbed or killed.
PEMEX ensures opacity of its operations in tax havens
The PMI in the hands handles all the sales and purchases of crude oil and its related products overseas, for more than 1.2 trillion pesos and the operations in tax havens of 14 private enterprises 100% in the ownership of Pemex.
Displaced persons in Chiapas without justice or land
In March 2014 the government of Chiapas spent more than 3.9 million pesos to support displaced persons moved away from their land, but failed to attend three urgent cases made visible by the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba).
“(A) National Tragedy”: 25,821 missing persons in Mexico
Until March 2015 in Mexico 25,821 “non-located” (“no localizadas”) persons were officially listed in the National Data Register of Missing and Disappeared Persons (Registro Nacional de Datos de Personas Extraviadas o Desaparecidas, Rndep) of the National Public Security System (Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública), of which 10,836 vanished in the time being of the current government. The remaining part, i.e. the majority dates back to the administration of Felipe Calderón. Regarding its methodology the governmental data base could hide hundreds of disappearances, points out a civil organization. This reality constitutes “a national tragedy”, considers Santiago Corcuera, member of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) of the United Nations (UN).
Mining company shields itself in order not to pay the royalties to Mexico
A mining company of foreign capital put forward a writ of amparo (a constitutional protection mechanism against the abuse of power and the safeguard of fundamental rights of citizens before the State Power) in order not to pay to the State the royalties of 7.5% of the extracted wealth out of the Mexican subsoil.
The celebrations of the Presidency of Mexico by direct bidding to a single company
