Privacidad cero
Gonzalo Monterrosa6 marzomarzo 6
Pronto no tendremos derecho a la privacidad pues para algunos gobiernos, todos somos criminales en potencia.
Abenomics fails to resolve Japanese crisis
Ariel Noyola Rodríguez*22 octubreoctubre 29
The past three months tell us that the panorama of the world system is daily more preoccupying. Both for the geopolitical tensions in Syria, as well as the economic tendencies that touch the recession.
There are political prisoners in Mexico, reports the UN
Mauricio Romero @mauricio_contra18 octubrenoviembre 10
For the first time the United Nations states that Mexico imprisons for political motives. It reports of the case of Baños Rodríguez, Human Rights Defender, arbitrarily, detained in 2013. The organism demands his “immediate release”.
A private megaproject worth over 23 billion pesos, assisted by the Government of the Federal District (GFD) is being developed in the last remains of the southern district of the Pedregal of Mexico City. This happens in spite of a judicial warrant that prohibi…
Entrenched inside the Corridor No. 1 of the Archive, the civil intelligence agency controls all the archives of the Dirty War. Having won on the battlefield, the CISEN is strengthening the padlock to deny access to the documents.
Iguala: The route and complicity of heroin
José Reveles27 septiembreoctubre 6
The files at the ministerial archives of the case of the 43 disappeared rural normal school students of Iguala have already shown, at least the existence of a transnational organization dedicated to the racking of heroin from the southern State of Guerrero up…
Mexico: The organized crime under impunity
Nancy Flores / @Nancy_Contra20 septiembreseptiembre 23
For the time being in the current administration the Attorney’s General Office (PGR) has started only 2,803 investigations of organized crime; among them only 84% for crimes against health. Mexico is the world’s third producer of opium and main exporter of met…
Over 7 thousand have disappeared women in Mexico
Flor Goche / @flor_contra13 septiembreseptiembre 23
Until today at least 7,185 women remain in the condition of disappeared person. Almost half of them are under 18 years. 52% of the cases occurred during the current administration.
Drug Trafficking: the other structural reform
Zósimo Camacho @zosimo_contra6 septiembreseptiembre 13
The Cartel of Sinaloa, currently with a clear path to subdue or annihilate the others. El Chapo and Caro Quintero are free to undergo the mission to end the war or cartels and to establish a “pax mafiosa”.
The counter-reform of michoacán’s indigenous university
Opinión31 agostonoviembre 11
Doing business on archeological sites
Elva Mendoza @elva_contra30 agostoseptiembre 8
Housing complexes, roads, shopping malls, among others are being built on archeological remains…The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) ends up endorsing most of the projects. Human burials and structures along other discoveries are ignored.…
The government has spent over 7 billion dollars in order to defend the Mexican peso. This kind of action will not achieve to contain the exchange rate towards the dollar, which by September will exceed 17 pesos per dollar. Shortly the “convenience” of the deva…
Failed: The full-time schools of Mexico City
Elva Mendoza @elva_contra16 agostoagosto 20
The program of full-time schools in the Federal District (Mexico City) has failed: the Chief Audit Office detected that out of 533 school campuses located in defined areas of “high” and “very high” degrees of marginality only 15 establishments were benefited;…
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, Iván Velázquez –el Z-50- and César Meza García are some of the drug kingpins handed over to the US-American justice. Other Mexicans that ran the same luck were Lionel Portillo and Iván Soto, allegedly responsible of the murder of an agen…
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 distributed between 48 companies responsible for the commerc…
Puerto Rico in the hurricane of crisis
Ariel Noyola Rodríguez*26 julioagosto 11
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 Oaxaca is under siege by the federal police forces
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.