The first one appeared on February 3, 2010, before sunrise. It hung from the statue of José María Morelos that faces the colonial statehouse at the center of Monterrey. Morelos was a priest turned revolutionary leader in Mexico’s war of independence,…Continue Reading

The harrowing torture recounted by William Finnegan lays bare a practice that is all too common in Mexico’s war on drugs (“In the Name of the Law,” October 18th). Human Rights Watch has documented more than a hundred credible allegations of tortu…Continue Reading

Federico Campbell offers a rare, uplifting story of a city’s emergence from the violence of Mexico’s drug war. Similarly, Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderón, has held up Tijuana as a model for his government’s counternarcotics strategy.
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