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Former Mexican president Felipe Calderon.

The US spied on Mexico’s leaders? So what else is new?

Global Politics

While France reacted sharply to recent news of NSA eavesdropping on its leaders, Mexico seems relatively unfazed. Over the weekend, newly-leaked documents revealed that the NSA hacked the emails of former Mexican president Felipe Calderon.This, after news that the NSA spied on current Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto while he was campaigning.

Despite protests, Pena Nieto maintains lead in Mexico’s presidential race

Mexico in mourning after casino attack leaves scores dead

PRI’s ‘The World’: Mexico’s War

Obama Visits Mexico, With Focus on Trade and Immigration, Not Drugs

The World

Mexico’s New President Peña Nieto Set for Inauguration

Global Politics

Mexican President Felipe Calderón officially leaves office this Saturday. Reducing violence will be a top issue facing incoming president, Enrique Peña Nieto.

A Mexican Voter Who Favors Continuity

Arts, Culture & Media

Myles Estey’s profile of a young Mexico City resident who supports the only woman among the major party candidates, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling PAN. Olga Velazquez says she wants to see a continuation of the PAN’s leadership.

Mexican Presidential Candidate Couldn’t Remember Any Influential Books

Global Politics

Enrique Pena Nieto, frontrunner in the 2012 Mexican presidential elections, was recently asked to name three books that have influenced him and he couldn’t.

Ioan Grillo on Mexico’s Violent Drug Industry

Since 2006, when President Felipe Calderón  declared war on Mexico’s drug cartels, 45,000 Mexicans across the republic have been disappeared, murdered, or mass-executed. Victims of this violence include journalists, over two thousand public officials, and bystanders. While drug-related activity was previously relegated to only a few Mexican states, the dramatic spread of violence – and its […]

Police Begin to Pull Out of Ciudad Juárez

Mexico’s War on Drugs, which President Felipe Calderón declared in January of 2007, has already resulted in the deaths of some 40,000 Mexicans, according to the Congressional Research Service. The epicenter of the violence is Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico less than five miles from El Paso, Texas. Last year, over 4,500 federal […]