Antonio Rocha

Mexico City, Mexico — The special commission investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from Iguala, Guerrero in southwest Mexico delivered its sixth and final report on July 25. It found that various levels of government and security forces were complicit in the disappearance of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College and the subsequent […]

Mexico City, Mexico — Since 2015 Chiapas has become a focal point of violence in Mexico, with clashes between different armed groups increasing sharply since 2021. Drug cartels, militias and paramilitary groups have scourged the once peaceful, southernmost state. Sharing a border with Guatemala, Chiapas is known as a den of indigenous culture and is […]

Mexico City, Mexico— “We are walking over a graveyard,” Indira Navarro Lugo told Aztec Reports. Navarro is the director of the Jalisco chapter of “Madres Buscadoras” (Searching Mothers), a national collective of family members searching for disappeared loved ones across Mexico. In 2015, Navarro’s younger brother, Jesús Navarro Lugo, went missing. Neglected by authorities, the older […]

Mexico City, Mexico — Mexican authorities arrested Carlos Gerardo Sánchez Mendoza for allegedly murdering journalist Armando Linares back in March 2022 in Zitacuaro, Michoacan. However, the intellectual authors behind the murder, which some allege include Michoacan government officials, remain free. Linares’s murder was part of a series of attacks against Monitor Michoacan, a digital news […]

Mexico City, Mexico — Eduardo Verástegui, a conservative activist, actor and producer of the U.S./Mexican film “The Sound of Freedom,” has registered as an independent candidate for the 2024 presidential election, positioning himself as the Mexican version of other far-right populist leaders like Donald Trump and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. The 49-year-old telenovela actor is launching his […]

Mexico City, Mexico — Amid the escalation of conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance movements, the Mexican government announced a rescue mission to repatriate around 300 Mexican nationals stranded in Israel. During his daily press conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that two military airplanes would be used to retrieve hundreds of […]

Mexico City, Mexico — The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) presented its 2023 report on structural reforms, showcasing the inequality, poverty, and economic growth in Mexico, which presented poverty rates greater than the 38 OECD member countries. According to the report, Mexico reported a poverty gap index of 34.2, greater than the median […]

Mexico City, Mexico — Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2006-2012) called for the Mexican elites, the army, and the United States government to monitor upcoming presidential elections in 2024. During the conference “Democracy and Populism in Latin America,” held on October 4, Calderón weighed in on the state of the current Mexican government and […]

Mexico City, Mexico — Bruno Plácido Valerio, the founder of one of the leading civilian police corps fighting against drug cartels in Guerrero, eastern Mexico, was shot to death outside the city’s Health Ministry in Chilpancingo, the state’s capital, on October 17. Plácido Valerio was the founder of the Policía Ciudadana de la Unión de Pueblos y Organizaciones […]

Mexico City, Mexico — Forty hours after Hurricane Otis hit Mexico’s east coastline, the state of Guerrero has suffered tremendous damage. Disruption in critical infrastructures has left sectors of the population uncommunicated and without power, while the storm has resulted in 27 deaths and four disappearances. According to Mexican authorities, the storm caught the country’s prevention […]