Thieves are puncturing fuel pipelines in Mexico and siphoning profits from the national oil company.

I regularly report on violence against journalists in Mexico. But Javier’s death came as a personal blow to me.

Mexicans are no stranger to widespread corruption, which costs the country a staggering $100 billion per year, according to last year’s National Corruption Forum. Governors are especially likely to become involved with graft.

Four attacks on reporters in such a short timespan have shocked Mexico, already a country press freedom organizations say is one the most dangerous in the Western Hemisphere for journalists.

As next year’s presidential election draws ever closer, former Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador may be the number one candidate.

The education plan for deportees represents one of the first attempts by the Mexican government to pushback against the policies of the new occupant of the White House.

“The prospect of having to face some new wall is nothing compared to the prospect of having to stay in Honduras, with its poverty and its violence. There’s just nothing there for us.”

Social unrest swept across Mexico in early January as protests over a hike in gasoline prices escalated into acts of looting, riots and blockades of highways.

I haven't seen such an outburst of nationwide anger in many years.