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Mexican Banks laundered 90 billion pesos in 2 years

So far in the current Mexican administration the Financial Intelligence Unit (Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, UIF) presented 174 denunciations before the PGR (Procuraduría General de Justicia, State...

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The Government of Mexico City delivers public domain without any contracts or...

With the absolute endorsement of the administration of Miguel Ángel Mancera an area of 75 thousand square meters of public area of the Sport City Magdalena Mixhuca (Ciudad Deportiva Magdalena Mixhuca)...

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The celebrations of the Presidency of Mexico by direct bidding to a single...

Over 45,700,000 pesos were spent by the Presidency of the (Mexican) Republic in 13 events; almost half of the amount was disbursed in just two of them: the Commemoration of

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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...

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“(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...

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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...

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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%...

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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...

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Chilapa, the Narco-Paramilitary Policy in Guerrero, Mexico

Chilapa, State of Guerrero, Mexico. Last 9th of May around 300 armed civilians –stemming from 15 communities south of that municipality- took the control over the municipal capital, with the indulgence...

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Mexico does not assess the impact of transgenic crops on Health

Lacking any evidence of laboratory of its own, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios, COFEPRIS) has endorsed the...

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The Secretariat of National Defense of Mexico: A construction Company with...

The Federal Judicial Council  of Mexico (Consejo de la Judicatura Federal) closed the public bid for the construction of the new seat of the Judicial Power of (the State of)

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Mexico, an electronic waste dump

Annually Mexico generates 350 million tons of electronic garbage, of which 90% doesn’t undergo any special treatment. With considerable delay The Mexican legislation has categorized it as waste of special

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Petroleum Coverage does not prevent the collapse of public finances

Faced with the fall of petroleum prices, the Federal Government of Mexico announced that the impact on public finance would be minimal given the insurance coverage that would insure that

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In 14 years 10,688 complaints of torture and other cruel treatments

From 2001 until May 2015 the (Mexican) National Committee of Human Rights (CNDH) received 10,688 complaints of torture and other cruel treatments; on average twice each day. Since 2008 these

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Gender Alert: The Secretariat of the Interior under-spends 50% of the budget

From 2008 until this date, the civil society has promoted 13 requests of Alert of Gender in 10 entities in Mexico. However, the emergency mechanism to fight feminicide violence in

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Fracking: More than 900 wells are opened in six States of Mexico

Emiliano Zapata is a population where the exploitation of petroleum and gas has left a big environmental and social stain. The inhabitants of the area know that their lands and

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Chapo is back in the leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel

The State of Mexico, the entity where the jailbreak of Chapo Guzmán happened is under dispute between the Caballeros Templarios Organization and the Familia Michoacana.

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The City of Oaxaca under state of siege

The scenario to liquidate the magisterial movement is built up. Thousands of police and military forces are settled for weeks in the city of Oaxaca. Strategically the capital city of the State of...

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Nine companies hog 91% of the “subsidies” to commercialize corn

Over 549 million Mexican pesos are hogged by nine major companies that receive support by Aserca, a decentralized body of the Secretariat of Agriculture (Sagarpa), out of a total of 610 million pesos...

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Puerto Rico in the hurricane of crisis

By all possible means, the political leaders of the United States attempt to make the economic crisis they face invisible. While a few weeks ago, the President of the Federal

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