113 ABA Journal Mexico articles.
The International Court of Justice has ordered the United States to halt the executions of five Mexicans on death row in Texas. But will Texas comply?
The tribunal also known…
Jul 17, 2008 11:21 AM CDT
In an effort to control increasingly violent conflict between Mexican authorities and the drug traffickers on whom the country’s president has declared war, the government is planning to double the…
Jul 11, 2008 9:56 PM CDT
From his office at Butzel Long’s Detroit headquarters, lawyer Richard Rassel can watch the massive 18-wheel trucks driving across the Ambassador Bridge from Michigan into Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Most of…
Jul 11, 2008 7:07 PM CDT
Iraqis who helped American soldiers are being slaughtered. A small band of U.S. lawyers is fighting to save their lives.
Jul 1, 2008 1:15 PM CDT
If Carlos Alvarado is deported to Mexico, he loses the ability to see his 10-year-old son on a regular basis. Plus, in all likelihood, he won’t be able to pay…
Jun 30, 2008 5:06 PM CDT
In a murder that apparently may relate to the assassination last month of another top Mexican police official at his Mexico City home, a senior police official and a bodyguard…
Jun 27, 2008 5:38 PM CDT
Mexico asked the World Court today to issue a stay to halt the executions of five of its citizens in the United States.
Mexico contends the five prisoners were not…
Jun 19, 2008 1:53 PM CDT
Tougher immigration enforcement tactics spur challenges
Jun 1, 2008 1:10 PM CDT
The number of people who have died in an ongoing effort by the Mexican government to crack down on the country’s drug dealers now substantially exceeds the number of U.S.…
May 22, 2008 4:51 PM CDT
Edgar Millan Gomez, the national coordinator for Mexico’s anti-drug trafficking enforcement efforts, was assassinated inside his home early this morning.
He was the No. 3 man in Mexico’s Public Safety…
May 8, 2008 9:30 PM CDT
Kidnappings for ransom are reportedly way up in Mexico, and even spilling into nearby U.S. areas, as gangs try to avoid greatly increased anti-drug trafficking enforcement there and obtain more…
Apr 22, 2008 9:09 PM CDT
Updated: In what may be a drug-related killing, six people, including at least three lawyers, were reportedly murdered yesterday at a law firm in Guadalajara, Mexico. Two women were seriously…
Mar 14, 2008 7:06 PM CDT
A wave of violence in Mexico involving warring drug gangs has now apparently targeted several well-known musicians with no known ties to the organized-crime groups, sparking increased concern that no…
Dec 5, 2007 8:42 PM CST
A human rights commission run by the Mexican government has reportedly accused some of the country’s own soldiers of rape and torture and recommended that the Mexican army be removed…
Sep 21, 2007 10:51 PM CDT
In a new program at O’Melveny & Myers, an associate from the mega-firm has traded places for three months with a counterpart from a 22-lawyer Mexico City firm with an…
Aug 21, 2007 9:18 PM CDT
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