Landmark Ruling By Mexico’s Supreme Court Paves Way For Legalizing Pot

“There is an enormous institutional and social cost to enforcing the laws against marijuana. How many resources are being used up to reduce these low-impact crimes?”

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
A young man prepares a marijuana joint while holding a Bugs Bunny stuffed animal during a small gathering to demand the legalization of marijuana in Mexico City, (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

The Mexican Supreme Court has ruled that individuals have the constitutional right to grow and distribute marijuana for personal use, a much-anticipated decision handed down Wednesday that delivers a landmark blow to the drug war in Latin America. While the ruling does not strike down any existing laws, it opens the door to legalization by

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Mexico’s cartel-fighting vigilantes get closer to the Texas border

Armed residents are taking on the feared Zetas cartel in Tamaulipas state. One desperate town’s mayor applauds them.

Global Post
By Global Post

HIDALGO, Mexico — The gunmen nabbed watermelon farmer Jesus Manuel Guerrero as he drove from his ranch to buy supplies and held him for five painful days in the trunk of a car. When family members finally paid a $120,000 ransom and they released him, he was urinating blood. He’s just one of hundreds of victims of a wave of kidnapping that’s

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Hundreds March For Sinaloa Cartel Boss In Mexico

Norteno musicians played trumpets while high school students in uniforms held up signs reading “We want Chapo free” and “We Love Chapo” as they paraded in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, which is the cartel’s bastion.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Mexico Drug War

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — Not everyone is happy over the capture of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Hundreds of people marched on the streets of this western Mexico city on Wednesday demanding that Mexican authorities free the boss of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Many said he provides needed jobs in poor mountain areas. Norteno

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Mexico’s Gang-Torn Hot Country Is About To Boil Over

Troops clashed with armed vigilante groups intent on taking on a dangerous meth cartel in Mexico’s western Michoacan state.

Dudley Althaus
By Dudley Althaus

MEXICO CITY — Things are shifting quickly and bloodily in Mexico’s western Michoacan state, as troops fight to disarm vigilante gangs intent on combating a dangerous drug cartel. A clash between soldiers and militiamen in one town Monday night ended with multiple deaths — reports vary on how many, but the government has confirmed two fatalities.

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Mexico’s History Of Tourism And Corporate ‘Development’

Will Enrique Peña Nieto $8.6 billion tourism plan protect natives or displace them?

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced an $8.6 billion plan to revive Mexico’s tourist industry this week after years of violence associated with the war on drugs has depressed the national tourist economy. At least 60,000 Mexican citizens have died as a result of cartel violence in the past few years, but such violence is virtually

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