We’re pleased to announce that National Security Archive investigators Michael Evans and Jesse Franzblau have been officially nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez Award for news coverage (“Cobertura”). The nomination was based on a joint investigation between the Archive’s Mexico project staff and MVS Noticias revealing newly-declassified evidence of a secret U.S. espionage facility in Mexico City. Nine … Continue reading
Migrant rights defenders, activists, and families from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala provided stories of cases of extreme violence against migrants in transit during a hearing with Mexican senators. (El Universal) Continue reading
Mexico’s Interior Ministry reported on Thursday that the Mexican military rescued 43 migrants who had ben kidnapped in the northern state of Tamaulipas, as well as detained three suspects. Among the migrants were 23 Mexicans, 8 Salvadorans, 7 Hondurans, and 5 Guatemalans. (El Heraldo.hn) Continue reading
At a summit of North American leaders in Toluca, Mexico, Presidents Obama, Peña Nieto and Harper pledged to ease border restrictions in an effort to increase trade and economic activity. (Los Angeles Times) Mexico’s attorney general said he is “profoundly concerned” about the shooting of a Mexican migrant earlier this week by a U.S. Border … Continue reading
President Obama today signaled that he might accept an immigration deal that did not include the path to citizenship called for in the bill approved by the U.S.Senate. (New York Times) During their annual retreat, the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives published a set of principles on their approach to immigration reform, … Continue reading
The Mexican Congress approved a set of constitutional reforms on transparency requiring federal, state, municipal, judicial, and congressional officials, along with political parties and labor unions, to publish a full accounting of the public funds they receive. The reforms also give greater autonomy to the Federal Institute for Access to Information (IFAI) in settling disputes … Continue reading
Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said that they expect to see an increase in the number of migrants deported from the United States in the coming year. (Latin Times) Citing the lack of progress on immigration reform, 29 U.S. lawmakers asked President Obama to suspend deportations for those who would be eligible for citizenship under … Continue reading
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
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
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
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