Last week Mexico's ambassador to Japan signed the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The approval was deemed a scandal by Mexican media. The Agreement is not widely known in the country, but serious opposition is rising up from academic...
After a vote recount of Mexico's presidential elections, Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) was finally declared the winner by Mexican electoral authorities yesterday. However, the left-of-centre candidate Andres...
As Mexican voters get ready to eelect their next president1 July , all four candidates have made statements in support of free expression and the protection of journalists. In the last five years, 44 Mexican journalists have been killed, most of...
Another journalist from the Mexican state of Veracruz was found murdered on 14 June. Victor Baez, the Veracruz state crime reporter for the national Milenio newspaper, had been kidnapped on Wednesday outside the offices of website Reporteros...
Sunday Times reporter Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, was expecting to cover the Olympics in 1968 – instead he found himself reporting the massacre of 300 students
A youth revolution has been brewing in Mexico in the last month. Known as the Yo Soy 132 movement (I am 132), the phenomenon is made up of university students who until a few months ago were a sleeping giant: most planned to vote in blank, or to...
The bodies of three photographers from the city of Veracruz --- Gabriel Huge, Gabriel Luna Varela, Guillermo Rodriguez--- were found dismembered and dumped in local waterway as Mexicans celebrated World Press Freedom Day yesterday. The bodies...
Mexico's Congress this week approved a law for the protection of human rights workers and journalists. The law requires that journalists and media outlets facing attacks because of their work should be offered protection. The law was...
Another journalist was killed this weekend in the southern Mexican state of Veracruz. The body of Regina Martinez, a reporter for the political weekly magazine Proceso was found in the bathroom of her home in the city of Xalapa with signs of heavy...
In Mexico, a video showing child actors acting as corrupt politicians, drug traffickers and police on the take has gone viral. Uploaded on You Tube on 9 April, the film clip had reached more than 1 million viewers by the weekend of 15 April. But...