May 31, 2009 The Los Angeles Times
	Mexico drug traffickers corrupt politics -- A new and violent group, La Familia Michoacana, is undermining the electoral system and day-to-day governance of Michoacan and expanding into neighboring central states, pushing an agenda that goes beyond the usual money-only interests of drug cartels.
May 29, 2009 Bloomberg.com
	Mexico Economy to Shrink 8.5%, Goldman Sachs Says -- Mexico’s economy will contract this year by 8.5 percent, the largest slump in 77 years.
May 29, 2009 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
	Enforcement-First Immigration Politics -- Under President Bush, the conservative response to immigration reform coalesced around tougher border control and enforcement--in practice, an enforcement-only strategy. Now there is rising concern that the Obama administration remains committed to enforcement over reform.
May 18, 2009 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
	House and Senate Pass New Military Aid to Mexico -- As the U.S. economy reels, the U.S. 2009 Supplemental Bill will provide $470 million to corrupt Mexican security forces for an unwinnable drug war. In doing so the U.S. government shows little concern for human rights in Mexico, and suggests that Bush interests continue to control much of its foreign policy.
May 11, 2009 Centro Prodh
	Global Exchange Joins Centro Prodh in Calling for Justice in Atenco -- Police carried out a lethal and unjustified repression of dissidents in San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico during demonstrations in May 2006. Three years later there has been no punishment for those who approved and conducted the brutal police assault and systematic rape of women in police custody. Global Exchange joins the Centro Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez in calling on the government of Calderón to bring an end to impunity.
May 08, 2009 Red todos los derechos para todos y todas
	Mexican NGOs Send a Letter to the U.S. Congress -- Mexican Human Rights Organizations call Congress to stop funding the militarization of Mexican public security, and instead to address the root causes of narcotics trafficking.
April 16, 2009 New America Media
	Obama Can Solve Illegal Immigration—Bail Out Mexico -- The White House announcement that it will tackle comprehensive immigration reform this year is good news. However, if the package does not include at least the first steps toward helping Mexico improve its economy and infrastructure, undocumented Mexican migration will not be solved permanently. Economic investment in Mexico is what’s needed to solve the undocumented migration challenge.
April 14, 2009 Global Exchange
	President Obama Visits Mexico April 16th and 17th -- Barack Obama travels to Mexico this week to discuss the politically charged topics of drug policy, border security and immigration with President Felipe Calderón. We hope he has been briefed on some of the erroneous assumptions that have guided recent U.S. policy toward Mexico. Correcting these errors is essential because continuing on the flawed path of his predecessors could have disastrous consequences.
March 31, 2009 Mexican Labor News and Analysis
	MEXICO: A State of Exception? Or a State in Disintegration? -- The Mexican state appears to be changing, leading a number of Mexican intellectuals to speculate on the nature of these developments. This is not simply a question of Mexico becoming a "failed state," about which there has been much speculation, but rather an attempt to theorize the evolution of the Mexican state at this moment.
March 30, 2009 The New York Times
	In Drug War, Mexico Fights Cartel and Itself -- REYNOSA, Mexico — An army convoy on the hunt for traffickers rolled out of its base recently in this border town under the control of the Gulf Cartel — and an ominous voice crackled over a two-way radio frequency to announce just that. The voice, belonging to a cartel spy, then broadcast the soldiers’ route through the city, turn by turn, using the same military language as the soldiers.
March 27, 2009 WOR Radio, John Gambling show [Dispatches From Mexico]
	What's Going On In Mexico? -- John Gibler, Journalist and Author: Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt joined The John Gambling Show to discuss what exactly is going on with drug lords and the U.S./ Mexican border.
March 27, 2009 CNN American Morning [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Author: U.S. security no match for Mexican drug cartels -- Video - Watch Gibler give his views on U.S. security efforts http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/27/gibler.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
March 25, 2009 Democracy Now! [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Obama Sending More Federal Agents, Money to Mexico Border for Drug War -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today, a day after the Obama administration announced it would send more money, technology and manpower to secure the United States-Mexico border and bolster the Mexican government’s anti-narcotics operation. We go to the US-Mexico border to speak with independent journalist John Gibler.
March 25, 2009 The Boston Globe
	Militaristic posturing in Mexico -- HILLARY CLINTON should take advantage of this week's visit to Mexico to openly question the Mexican government's failing human rights record. President Felipe Calderón has centered his anti-drug strategy almost exclusively on the use of the military.
March 24, 2009 The New York Times
	Nafta’s Promise, Unfulfilled -- MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s former president, Carlos Salinas, used to promise that free trade and foreign investment would jump-start this country’s development, empowering a richer and more prosperous Mexico “to export goods, not people.”
March 20, 2009 Centro ProDH
	The Military and Human Rights in Mexico -- These reports reflect the impact of military involvement in the "war" on drugs in Mexico. They describe the pattern of increased human rights abuses by the Mexican Military, the impunity of the military personnel that commits these abuses, and the subsequent threat to freedom of expression and other basic rights.
March 16, 2009 Council on Hemispheric Affairs
	In the Hot Seat: Mexico Goes Before the U.N. Human Rights Council -- On February 10, 2009 the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) evaluated the current state of human rights in Mexico, as well as provided guidance for improvement in the country’s historically far from distinguished record.
March 10, 2009 House Appropriations Committee
	Testimony of Ana Paula Hernández, Consultant in Mexico on Human Rights and Drug Policy on the Merida Initiative -- Testimony of Ana Paula Hernández, Consultant in Mexico on Human Rights and Drug Policy on the Merida Initiative, before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on State Foreign Operations and Related Programs.
March 09, 2009 Americas Program, Center for International Policy
	Drug War Doublespeak -- Through late February and early March, a blitzkrieg of declarations from U.S. government and military officials and pundits hit the media, claiming that Mexico was alternately at risk of being a failed state, on the verge of civil war, losing control of its territory, and posing a threat to U.S. national security.
March 05, 2009 Embassy of the United States in Mexico
	Many Voices, One Message -- In the first six weeks of the new Administration, many newly-appointed U.S. officials have spoken specifically on the shared effort with Mexico to confront organized criminal networks. Working successfully with Mexico is a fundamental priority for the Obama Administration.
February 23, 2009 Foreign Policy in Focus, IPS
	Mexico: Neither a Failed State Nor a Model -- Mexico faces two serious challenges: the deepest economic slowdown in Latin America and an explosion of drug-related violence. To the extent that these crises are getting any attention at all in the United States, the views are widely divergent.
February 05, 2009 NACLA
	Mexico: Due for Another Revolution? -- Never before has the contrast between the World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual clambake of the capitalist class in Davos Switzerland, and the World Social Forum (WSF), created a decade ago to beat back the corporate globalization of the Planet Earth, been quite so stark.
February 04, 2009 Physicians for Human Rights
	Mexico Presents Flawed Theory in Shooting Death of American Journalist -- Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges that Mexico’s investigation into the shooting death of an American video-journalist has presented a scientifically flawed theory that ignores PHR’s conclusive findings, including the discovery that one of the bullets was a ricochet.
February 03, 2009 Scoop
	A Review of John Gibler's Mexico Unconquered -- A little over a year ago in Mexico City, John Gibler and I were having drinks and talking about work with a handful of other journalists. John told us that he'd recently watched a documentary about the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle with Mexican activists. He said that during the scenes where police beat protesters who offered no resistance, he and the Mexicans exclaimed, "Why don't they fight back?!"
January 26, 2009 ZNet
	Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt -- Mexico Unconquered is about the ongoing social struggles that grip Mexico, the overwhelming violence of the state on the one hand and the vibrant and massive peoples' movements for land, autonomy, freedom, and dignity on the other.
January 10, 2009 ZNet [Dispatches From Mexico]
	The Murder of Sali Grace -- San José del Pacifico, Mexico-Marcella "Sali" Grace Eiler, a young woman with several years of forest defense, train hopping, banjo playing, and dumpster diving already under her belt, stepped into La Taberna de los Duendes (The Gnome's Tavern) around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 14, 2008, just two weeks shy of her twenty-first birthday.
December 19, 2008 The Wall Street Journal
	Obama's Picks Show Split on Trade -- WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama plans to name former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, a longtime free trader, as U.S. trade representative, and Rep. Hilda Solis, a free-trade opponent, as labor secretary, Obama advisers said, reflecting the split in the incoming administration over trade.
December 09, 2008 BBC News
	Mexico drug gang killings surge -- Drug-related murders in Mexico more than doubled this year to nearly 5,400 and the violence is likely to worsen in 2009, the nation's top prosecutor says.
December 06, 2008 Associated Press
	Strong dollar means Mexico migrants send more home -- MEXICO CITY — Victoria Servin shows off her new pair of black leather boots, a splurge for the 21-year-old student who lives alone in an aging, one-room apartment.
December 03, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy
	Mexico's Immigration Problem Also a "Red Flag" at Home -- In the first two years of the Felipe Calderon administration, Mexico has become a focal point in the violation of the human rights of immigrants even as it criticizes the treatment of Mexican migrants in the United States.

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