News stories by Daniela Pastrana, page 2

MEXICO CITY, Apr 27 (IPS) - Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America for journalists. In 2015 it accounted for one-third of all murders of reporters in the region, and four more journalists have been added to the list so far this year.

IGUALA, Mexico, Sep 25 (IPS) - The soup kitchen of the San Gerardo parish in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero has become a memorial to horror. Long rows of photos have been hung on the walls of the large hall – the faces of dozens of people who were "disappeared", abducted, extracted from their lives without a trace.

, Sep 08 (IPS) - Nearly a year after the forced disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, the government's investigation is back to the drawing board, after a group of independent experts refuted all of the official arguments.

EL MAYOR, Mexico, Sep 08 (IPS) - In their language, Cocopah means "river people". For over 500 years the members of this Amerindian group have lived along the lower Colorado River and delta in the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona.

TIJUANA, Mexico, Aug 23 (IPS) - The areas under the low bridges over a section of the canalised channel of the Tijuana River that runs along the border between Mexico and the United States have become enormous open-air toilets.

SAN BERNARDINO CHALCHIHUAPAN, Mexico, Jul 31 (IPS) - People in this town in the central Mexican state of Puebla found out the hard way that protesting can be deadly.

IRAPUATO, Mexico, Jul 07 (IPS) - In early May, the Irapuato Migrants' House, in the centre-west Mexican state of Guanajuato, took in a group of 152 Garifuna Afro-Caribbean people from Honduras. Sixty of them were children.

MEXICO CITY, Jun 27 (IPS) - "I just want all this to be over," Yakiri Rubí Rubio, a young Mexican woman facing trial for killing the man who raped her in December 2013, laments to IPS.

MEXICO CITY, Feb 11 (IPS) - "In the long term, what benefit will regulation of the autodefensas bring us? Do you think I have an aptitude or professional vocation for police work?" asked Juan Carlos Trujillo, a peace activist in the Mexican state of Michoacán.

MEXICO CITY, Jan 16 (IPS) - "The army decided to open fire on the people," Estanislao Beltrán, a spokesman for the self-defence forces of Michoacán, said in a radio interview after the government's attempt to disarm the vigilante groups in the state of Mexico, in which at least two people were killed.