Los Zetas
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 13 April to 19 April 2014 The Council of Self-Defense Forces of Michoacán (CAM), made up of leaders from 20 autodefensas, has agreed to a deal with the government, but as InSight Crime noted, “[t]he deadline is so far the only clear point” of the
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 6 April to 12 April 2014 This week, the LA Times called the spread of vigilante groups in Michoacán and other states “the greatest security-policy test of the 16-month-old” government of President Enrique Peña Nieto – a telling statement when one considers the situation in Tamaulipas state
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 17 March to 22 March 2014. A draft report released this week by Christof Heyns, special rapporteur for the United Nations on Extrajudicial Executions, concluded that Mexico has experienced “numerous extrajudicial executions by the armed forces and the cartels, often without any accountability” as
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