Mexico has been carried in this way to the status of a leading “emerging market.” Under the guidance of international financial supervision, and with the help of a safe and supervised U.S. Treasury debt policy, the country has become a favorite object of speculative foreign money capital. It stands or falls in this respect with the trend of confidence that the foreign monetary investors give or take away from the country...

By JOHN ROSS - January 11, 2010

Every hundred years on the tenth year of the century, Mexico seems to explode in social upheaval...It is now the tenth of January 2010 and no new revolution has broken out...Nonetheless, the New Year was welcomed in here with a blast of revolutionary fireworks...

By Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui - November 25, 2009

The neoliberal assault on popular rights, livelihoods, and opportunities has demolished hopes for a better future within Mexico. Concessions and hope were a basis of a partial acceptance...of the authoritarian regime, which offered the hope...of creating a better material life for oneself and one’s family...The belief that there would be a democratic transition and that it would lead to improved life opportunities and less repression have been dashed by the neoliberal authoritarian political policies and practices.

By JOHN ROSS - November 27-29, 2009

Every 100 years on the tenth year of the century, Mexico explodes in extravagant social upheaval. In 1810, this distant neighbor nation declared its independence from the Spanish Crown...In 1910, the Mexican revolution, the first massive uprising of the landless in the Americas, detonated in a geyser of blood...The 100-year timeline has triggered intense speculation about what's ahead for Mexico in 2010.

By JOHN ROSS - October 28, 2009

Three years after he was gunned down by Oaxaca state security agents October 27th 2006 while filming a confrontation between activists and local police during the oft-violent campaign to oust tyrannical governor Ulisis Ruiz Ortiz...U.S. photojournalist Brad Will is still dead...So are 55 other journalists working in Mexico over the past ten years (eight more remain missing)...16 of those on the kill list have been slain since Brad's still unresolved death. With rare exception, the murders of journalists in Mexico are never solved.

By JOHN ROSS - October 6, 2009

An unprecedented wave of anarchist bombings here and in provincial capitals has Mexican security forces on red alert. Beginning September 1st, bombs have gone off once or twice a week regularly as clockwork, taking out windows and ATMs at five banks, torching two auto showrooms and several U.S. fast-food franchises plus an upscale boutique in [Mexico City's] chic Polanco district..."Our motives are to stop these bastards and let them know that we are not playing games."

By Kate Doyle - September 25, 2009

As Mexicans debate last week's Supreme Court ruling vacating the conviction of 20 men for the Acteal massacre, newly declassified documents from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) describe the army's role in backing paramilitary groups in Chiapas at the time of the killings. The secret cables confirm reporting about military support for indigenous armed groups carrying out attacks on pro-Zapatista communities in the region...

By John Ross - September 17, 2009

This August 24th when sixth graders returned to their classrooms, many were stunned to discover that nearly 30 pages...had disappeared from their history textbooks. The missing pages discussed the European Conquest of Mexico and three centuries of colonial rule...Diminished attention on the Conquest of between 12.5 and 25 million indigenous peoples...is seen as a slap...The disappearance of colonial history and the cruel indignities the indigenas suffered under the Spanish yoke further depreciates the role of Mexico's Indians and flies in the face of the country's traditional anti-colonial trajectory.

By CATHERINE SOLYOM - August 27, 2009

Members of the [Mexican] military and police commit serious human rights violations, including unlawful killings, excessive use of force, enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention, and sexual violence...

--Amnesty International

By Kent Paterson - Znet

Increasingly, an essential ingredient of the Canada-Mexico relationship involves immigration. While older Canadians retire in sunny Mexico, younger Mexicans scramble to the frosty north to make a living—legally or illegally. The new Mexican migration comes at a time when Canada has embarked on an internally controversial immigration policy shift away from promoting citizenship and family reunification to emphasizing the employment of temporary foreign workers.