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[Translation of an article from La Jornada of Mexico City for November 10. See original article here and related article here.]

by Fabiola Martínez

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, November 9 – “What country was Calderón talking about?” asked Edith Zavala, executive secretary of the Foro Nacional para las Migraciones [National Forum for Migration] of Honduras, a support network for citizens of that country who have suffered abuse while traveling through Mexico, as soon as the president’s long speech ended..

Calderón listed measures to support the migrants, actions to arrest those responsible for the massacre in Tamaulipas of 72 workers from Central and South America and reassured listeners that his administration respects human rights. (more…)

[Translation of an article from El Faro of El Salvador for August 26. See the original here .] 

By Óscar Martínez

I don’t understand the uproar over the 72 migrants Los Zetas assassinated in Mexico. I guess it was because of the number of bodies piled up together, in plain view in the picture from the ranch in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas. It’s a worm of corpses rolled up against the wall of a ruined shed in that wilderness in the middle of nowhere, out there at the end of the little dirt road. Some of the corpses had their hands tied behind their backs. Others were lying piled on top of each other, in the parts of the worm that were swollen. I don’t understand the uproar over the massacre of so many migrants.

The big news media, of Mexico, of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, even of the United States, of Spain and South America, have used their front pages, their important sections, their top news spots, to cover the massacre of migrants in Mexico. I don’t understand the uproar in such big media.

The politicians, the ones from Mexico, from Central America, from Brazil, Ecuador, have rushed to sit in their press conference chairs in front of those media and to apppear later on the front pages. It’s true, not just any politicians. They are the heads of departments, of institutions, of organizations. They are even the presidents themselves of those countries, who have said, as the one from Mexico said, that the perpetrators of the massacre in San Fernando are “animals.” I don’t understand such an uproar by so many importaint politicians. (more…)

[Translation of an article from El Universal of Mexico City for June 25.]

Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, June 25 – The government of Tamaulipas is performing a survey of damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in order to file suit in US courts against British Petroleum within the next ten days.

Horacio del Ángel Castillo, director for inspections and vigilance of the Environmental Agency for Sustainable Development, stated that “the government of Tamaulipas will not wait until the black tide reaches the coast, since there is already damage that is being taken into account.” (more…)