Tracy Wilkinson

Mexico legislators seek to change freedom-of-information law
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 00:00
Congress was poised to change the law governing the Federal Institute for Access to Information, or IFAI, in ways that critics say will gut the public's ability to gain access to important, sometimes sensitive, material.
Mexico cartel leader's capture will have little effect on drug flow
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 00:00
If anything, the violence, at least in the short term, may surge as rivals and potential successors of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, alias Z-40, head of the Zetas paramilitary gang, battle to take his place or his turf
Leader of Zetas drug cartel seized, Mexico says
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 00:00
This is the most important arrest since Pena Nieto took office more than seven months ago.
Francisco Vega officially wins Baja California governor's race
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 00:00
The vote count, abruptly halted on election night, July 7, was completed over the weekend, and the PRI recognized its loss.
Some in Mexico smell a rat as vote count halted in Baja California
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 00:00
Gustavo Madero, leader of the National Action Party, or PAN, said the elections Sunday, which were marred by violence and corruption scandals, represented a throwback to the era when the PRI used electoral fraud and graft.
Leftist is surprisingly at home in elite Mexico City borough
Monday, June 24, 2013 - 00:00
He is the first leftist to be elected to the job: Las Lomas, Polanco and the other wealthy neighborhoods of the Miguel Hidalgo borough of western Mexico City had until now been the exclusive purview of right-wing politicians
Nicaragua canal project is approved despite few details
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 00:00
Critics accuse President Daniel Ortega of pushing through the sea-to-sea Nicaragua canal project to benefit his family and inner circle
Mexican army frees 165 immigrants held at gunpoint
Friday, June 7, 2013 - 00:00
The migrants, mostly from Central America, were being held at gunpoint inside a small building in a part of Mexico's northern border state of Tamaulipas that is controlled by the notorious Zetas
With China's Xi visiting, Mexico hopes to build better ties
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 00:00
Mexico suffers a huge trade deficit with China. Last year, imports from China were valued in U.S. dollars at 10 times exports to the Asian giant
Mexico launches military push to restore order in Michoacan state
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 00:00
Michoacan was probably chosen because it was fast spiraling into chaos. Parts of the state were awash in lawlessness, crippled by a cartel calling itself the Knights Templar

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