Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said July 9 that her government plans to seek criminal complaints in the United States over the deaths of Mexican citizens while in immigration custody or during anti-immigration operations.

A UN expert panel on July 1 condemned the latest murder of a Mexican human rights activist, and called for a thorough, impartial and transparent investigation by state authorities.

A grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on April 29 indicted 10 current and former Mexican officials for importing large amounts of drugs into the United States, along with related offenses. The officials include the current governor of Sinaloa state, Rubén Rocha Moya, as well as a Sinaloa deputy attorney general, a former Sinaloa secretary of public security, a former deputy director of the Sinaloa State Police, and a federal senator.

Two US embassy "instructors" killed when the vehicle carrying them plummeted down a mountain ravine in northern Mexico's Chihuahua state on April 19 were actually CIA officers, according to a Washington Post report citing anonymous sources. The revelation contradicts initial claims by Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Jauregui denying that there was "any involvement of any foreign agent" in the raid on a methamphetamine lab raid in the remote southwestern corner of the state. The names of the two US personnel have not been revealed, but Chihuahua State Investigations Agency (AEI) director Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes and one of his agents were also killed in the crash that took place during the operation at the hamlet of El Pinal, Morelos municipality. (El Paso Times)

Mexico's Zapatista rebels—who have observed a long ceasefire but still have a zone of control in the back-country of Chiapas state—just concluded an international gathering in the highland city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Convened on the premesis of the Indigenous Center for Integral Training (Centro Indígena de Capacitación Integral—CIDECI), the gathering was entitled "Seedbed: The Storm Inside and Outside According to the Zapatista Communities & Peoples" (Semillero: La Tormenta dentro y fuera según las comunidades y pueblos zapatistas).

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) requested April 2 that the United Nations secretary-general refer the crisis of enforced disappearances in Mexico to the General Assembly for consideration of response measures.

Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez was assassinated during a Day of the Dead celebration Nov. 1 in the main square of Uruapan, in the violence-torn Mexican state of Michoacán. He had been an outspoken opponent of the drug cartels and their reign of terror in the state, and his death sparked protests across Michoacán. At a demonstration in state capital Morelia the day after the murder, protesters demanded the resignation of Gov. Ramírez Bedolla, of Mexico's ruling MORENA party; one faction broke into and vandalized the Government Palace. President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced a new "Michoacán Plan for Peace & Justice" to finally pacify the lawless state. 

Civil society organizations in the Mexican city of Culiacán, capital of Sinaloa state, held a march for social peace that brought tens of thousands to the streets Sept. 7, with ongoing public vigils over the following days. Held under the slogan "Ya basta, queremos paz" (Enough already, we want peace), the mobilization was called to mark one year since an outbreak of violence in the city as rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel vied for supremacy.