Civil society commends advances in the right to know; raises concerns over new national security exemptions On November 20, 2013, Mexico’s senate passed new reforms to the country’s transparency system, approving modifications and establishing greater autonomy for the country’s information oversight body – the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Protection of Data (IFAI). … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Migration News: November 16-22, 2013
La Opinión reported that declassified from the U.S. government revealed that massacres of migrants carried out in Mexico from 2010-2012 were allowed to take place as a result of inaction by the Mexican authorities. (La Opinión) Continue reading
Mexican Legislators Call for Investigation of U.S. Intelligence Center
Three top Mexican lawmakers have called on the country’s Attorney General to investigate disclosures about a secret, U.S.-only intelligence facility in Mexico City published last week by Migration Declassified in partnership with MVS Noticias. On Friday, Ricardo Anaya Cortés of the National Action Party (PAN), chair of the Permanent Council of the Chamber of Deputies, said “it … Continue reading
Migration News: November 9-15, 2013
The non-government organization Citizens for the Defense of Indigenous and Afro-Mexicans, accused migration authorities (INM) of committing abuse against Haitian migrants in Chiapas. (La Jornada) Continue reading
NSA Staffed U.S.-Only Intelligence “Fusion Center” in Mexico City
Top Secret Facility Barred Mexicans, Focused on “High Value Targeting” National Security Agency (NSA) personnel rotated in and out of a U.S.-operated “Mexico Fusion Center” located inside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and provided additional analytic support to the secret intelligence facility’s “high value targeting” mission, according to a 2010 Defense Department (DOD) memorandum obtained … Continue reading
Migration News: November 2-8, 2013
Marcela Turati, award-winning journalist for Proceso magazine, published an investigative report using declassified documents from the U.S. with information on the Tamaulipas massacres of hundreds of undocumented Central Americans between 2010 and 2012. (Proceso) Continue reading
“Near total impunity” for Mexican Cartels “in the face of compromised local security forces,” U.S. Cable
Four months before the feared Zetas drug cartel kidnapped and murdered 72 migrants in northeastern Mexico, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said that narcotrafficking organizations in that region operated with “near total impunity in the face of compromised local security forces.” As the date of the massacre drew nearer, another U.S. agency, the Drug … Continue reading
Secrets of the Tamaulipas Massacres Come to Light in Proceso Magazine
In this week’s edition of Proceso magazine, award–winning journalist Marcela Turati uses a set of declassified U.S. diplomatic cables from our Mexico/Migration Project collection to shed new light on what she calls “the collusion of Mexican municipal, state and federal officials” with the murders of hundreds of migrants in and around San Fernando, Tamaulipas, by a … Continue reading
Migration News: October 26 – November 1, 2013
Mexico’s Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI), carried out its third conference to address migration issues in Guanajuato, organized by the Coalition for Support of Migrants (Redami). (AM) Continue reading
Migration Declassified 