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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Declined table at Mexico City cafe, woman sparks political drama |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The incident was the latest class and corruption scandal to spark up social media in Mexico |
Friday, March 8, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Gunmen fire on newspaper office in northern Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The shootings follow a string of recent attacks against El Siglo de Torreon, a newspaper in the city of Torreon |
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Head of Mexico's powerful teachers union arrested |
| Author/Source: | Richard Fausset, Daniel Hernandez Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Skeptics are more likely to interpret the move as an effort by Peña Nieto and the PRI leadership to centralize power, leaving little room for tolerance of rogue forces like Gordillo |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Forced Disappearances, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico counts 26,121 missing during Calderon era |
| Author/Source: | Cecilia Sanchez, Daniel Hernandez, Richard Fausset Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The number of people who went missing in Mexico during the six years of former President Felipe Calderon's administration stands at 26,121, government officials said. |
Friday, February 8, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Workers return to Mexico's Pemex HQ after blast that killed 37 |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Speculation about the cause of the blast has ranged from tragic industrial accident to deliberate sabotage aimed at destroying sensitive documents or derailing efforts of the new government to open the long-protected state monopoly |
Friday, January 4, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | In crime-toughened Mexico City, cash-for-weapons exchange extended |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | By Dec. 31, when the pilot was supposed to end, about 900 weapons had been turned in |
Thursday, December 6, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Protest, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Police actions questioned after Mexican inauguration protests |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Questions are dogging police this week after nearly 100 people were detained and at least 100 others injured -- two seriously -- during hours of raucous demonstrations in central Mexico City as Enrique Pena Nieto was sworn in as president of Mexico. |
Thursday, October 18, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Land Tenure, Public Security |
| Title: | Land dispute ruffles palm fronds on Mexico's Isla Holbox |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez, Cecilia Sanchez The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Developers seek to build a high-end resort after longtime residents - who say they were cheated - sell their rights to communal lands known as ejidos. |
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Title: | Mexico's next president names transition team |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez, Tracy Wilkinson The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto named a transition team packed with advisors from his inner circle and members of his controversial governorship of Mexico's most populous state. |
Friday, August 10, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Dozens dead in attacks in Acapulco, San Luis Potosi, Mexico City |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Fourteen bodies were found in a truck Thursday in the state of San Luis Potosi, at least 17 people have been killed since Sunday in the port of Acapulco, and 12 others were reported killed in 24 hours in metropolitan Mexico City. |
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico's leftist candidate has high hopes, fervent supporters |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | If he doesn't win on Sunday, Lopez Obrador told a business group, he will retire to his ranch in the state of Chiapas, which he comically named using a bit of Mexican slang that is unprintable. |