March 24, 2026
After Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, one of Mexico’s top cartel leaders, was assassinated on February 22, 2026, mass violence has been set across the country (Al Jazeera 1). Airlines have cancelled flights to many of the country’s most popular cities and American and Canadian tourists have been warned about possible threats to their safety (Al […]
April 18, 2025
The Mexican state of Chiapas, Mexico, bordering Guatemala, faces an intense and underreported conflict involving the Mexican government, government-aligned paramilitaries, cartels, and the EZLN or Zapatista movement (WordPress). Chiapas, home to one of the largest indigenous populations of the country -26% of the state’s inhabitants -is also an epicenter for about half of all unresolved […]
July 1, 2020
A deadly earthquake hit southern Mexico near Oaxaca on Tuesday, killing at least six people (Reuters). The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (NPR). Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that 147 aftershocks had occurred before noon (NPR). Additionally, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico in the same […]
