Mexico

MEXICO

600 AD – Palenque in the state of Chiapas in south east Mexico, was a Mayan city which reached its power in AD 600. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

900 – The Toltec kingdom was established in Mexico. (ehistory timeline).

1560s – Mexico city and African slaves. (UK slave trafficking. Nick Hazelwood ©2004).

1565 – British slave ships carried and sold African slaves. (UK slave trafficking. Nick Hazelwood ©2004).

1569-1572 – In 1569 Philip II established a tribunal of the Holy office of the inquisition in Mexico. In late 1571 its first chief inquisitor Pedro Moya de Contreras arrived in the city, and by Nov 1572 had issued a general prosecution of all the men from John Hawkyns fleet still in the colony. 31 men were thrown into a secret prison of the Holy office and tortured for 18 months. (UK Slave trafficking. Nick Hazelwood ©2004).

March 1573 – A foiled prison breakout in Mexico. Paul Hawkyns remained in Mexico for the rest of his life. (UK Slave trafficking. Nick Hazelwood ©2004).

1787 – Captain Antonio del Rio for the Spanish crew. Mayan civilization in Mexico’s Palenque in Chiapas state, sites were explored. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

6 March 1836 – Texas and the Alamo. Mystery about the death of Major General Edward Edwards. Mystery about the withdrawl from his bank account with Barings bank, 4 months after his apparent death or murder. He may have fought with the Mexican forces under General Santa Anna. Mexican troops and the battle of the Alamo 1836. (Family history monthly. March 2004 p7).

23 Sept 1846 – Monterrey  town in southern California was captured from the Mexicans by the Americans under general Taylor and his success was followed by the occupation of the whole of northern Mexico by the American army.

1848 – The Mexican war gave the US land west of the Rockies. (Ancestry. May June 2007 p63).

1861-1863 – In 1861 troops from the UK, Spain and France landed at Veracruz in Mexico, later the British and Spanish left. French troops arrived and launched a civil war which claimed 50,000 lives. They drove Juarez and his people out of Mexico city in 1863. (History Today June 2014 UK).

30 July 1867 – Latest from Mexico. Wanganui Herald NZ.

1900-1911 – US investment in Mexico doubled to $2 billion. Giving the US more than 43% of Mexican property. 10% more than Mexicans owned, William Randolph Hearst held over 17 million acres. Porfirio Diaz had three decades of rule. Mexico’s minerals, railways and oil. Francisco Madero’s forces ousted Diaz in 1911. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1914 – The US sent troops to Mexico in 1914. Tampiro was safe for American oil interests in 1914. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012).

14 April 1914 - US sailors went to Tampico Mexico. Six thousand marines occupied Vera Cruz for seven months. 1914 the Mexican revolution. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1917 – Berlin network reformed in Mexico in 1917 ordered to forment a revolution and create a regime that would invade the US. German government and Mexican government revealed in the Zimmerman telegram.

Jan Feb 1917 – The Zimmerman telegram of 16 Jan 1917. The German foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman told the ambassador in Mexico that Germany intends to begin submarine warfare. 1 Feb 1917 Germany offered the Mexican government an alliance, a joint declaration of war on the US. Help for Mexico to recover the lands of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

31 Jan 1917 – German submarine warfare. Mexican reconquest of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).

26 June 1920 – Covert action in Mexico. Bureau of investigation weekly bulletin of radical activities. 26 June and 3 July 1920. (FBI a history. Rodris Jeffreys Jones ©2007 US).

18 Nov 1924 – Mexican murder. Evening Post NZ.

1928-2000 – The Monolith il Partido Revolutcionario Instituiconas, PRI, ruled Mexico from 1928 to 2000, a democracy. Under PRI the politicians, police and intel agencies controlled the drug trade. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1939-41 – FBI agent Gus T Jones was in Mexico. In Oct 1939 Mexicans who were anti-American and could be pro-German. List of Mexican officials friendly with the US. The FBI by Aug 1941 had 11 agents in Mexico 6 of them in the capital. (FBI a history. Rodri Jeffreys Jones. ©2007 US).

1940 – Sudoplatov, political assassination of Leon Trotsky. He fled to Mexico away from Stalin. Ramon Mercader del Rio, a Spanish national working for Sudoplatov’s deputy, a pickaxe to the head. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

1940s – The Mexican drug trade flourished in the 1940s with corrupt officials in Mexico and the US. (Money and power. ©2001).

August 1940 – Joseph Stalin’s secret police the NKVD, later the KGB state terror. Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929 moving from Turkey to Mexico. Stalin’s agents in august 1940 Mexico murdered him. Trotsky died slowly in hospital from his injuries. His murderer was Spanish communist Ramon Mercador who Mexico jailed for the killing in 1943. He was released in 1960. Mercador went to the Soviet Union to receive the order of Lenin from Nikita Khrushchev. (Gods assassins. ©2009 UK Baddeley P Woods).

Aug 1940 – Mexico FBI agent Gus T Jones and Soviet dissident Leon Trotsky. Jacques Mornard van den Drescha the man who axed Trotsky in the head on the orders of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. (FBI a history. Rodri Jeffreys Jones ©2007 US).

1941-42 – FBI and the head of German intel ops in Mexico, Geog Nikolaus was under surveillance but was at large. Nikolaus continued to operate. In mid Dec 1941 he sent Germany info about the US Navy after Pearl Harbor. The Mexican govt arrested him in Feb 1942. (FBI a history. Rodri Jeffreys Jones ©2007 US).

1942 – Gerhardt Wilhelm Kuntz was conducting Nazi activities in the US from Mexico. FBI agent Gus Jones had Kuntz arrested in Mexico and a US court later convicted him. (FBI a history. Rodri Jeffreys Jones ©2007 US).

6 March 1962 – FBI reports, Marilyn Monroe, Communist trip to Mexico city. Frederick Vanderbilt Field a Soviet espionage agent known to the FBI. (The assassination of Marilyn Monroe. DC Wolfe ©1998 UK).

1963 – Oswald took a secret trip to Moscow April 1963. Comrade Kostikov in Mexico city, Valery Kostikov KGB 13^th dept Soviet embassy in Mexico. 31 Jan 1964 CIA memo Oswald met with Kostikov in Mexico city April 1963 meeting. Trip to Mexico in 27 Sept 1963 Cuban embassy. Mexico city 2 Oct 1963 Oswald impersonated in Sept Oct 19963 Mexico. (Who really killed Kennedy Jarome C Corsi ©2013 US).

Sept 1963 – Less than 2 months before JFKs assassination, Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban consulate in Mexico city and tried to obtain a visa.

May 1964 – London Sunday Times. JFK assassination. Hugh Ward private investigator working with. Guy Banister and David Ferrie. Plane crash in Mexico. De Lessques Morrison, New Orleans mayor was in Wards plane.

1970-74 – Mexican prisons in the early 1970s were run by guards who turned a blind eye to anything, if they were paid. Marijuana supply. Oct 1972 across the US Mexican border marijuana supplies. Many people switched to heroin. By 1974 Mexican interests controlled two thirds of the US heroin market. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1972-78 – Pavel Alexandrovich Yefremov, KGB agent in Mexico, Tass correspondent 1972 till 1978 speaks Spanish and Russian. (Under cover lives. ©1998 H Womack).

28 Aug 1973 – 600 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

9 Jan 1978 – Murder case sheds light on Mexican mafia. Christopher Reed. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.

1979 – Mexico’s destructive actions in central America since 1979. (Inside the NSC. ©1988 C Menges).

May 1984 – The President of Mexico arrived in Washington for a state visit. (Inside the NSC. ©1988 C Menges).

19 Sept 1985 – Mexico city 9,500 killed 8.1 quake. Rapture ready.

19 Sept 1985 – 8.1 quake Mexico city. 9,500 killed 40,000 injured. Timeline of earthquakes.

Oct 1987 – W Dirk Raat. US intel ops and covert action in Mexico 1900-1947. Journal of contemporary history 22.

1990s – Cali cartel and Mexican trafficking the early 1970s. Heroin and marijuana drug routes on the Mexican border smuggling. Cali cartel in Mexico. By the early 1990s, 60 to 80% of cocaine entering the US came through Mexico. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1993 – Hugh Thomas. Conquest Montezuma. Cortez and the fall of old Mexico. New York Simon Schuster.

1994 – The Chippas massacre in southern Mexico in 1994. The Mexican army attacked thousands of people involved in the Zapitista uprising. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1994 – In Chiapas Mexico during the Zapatista uprising of 1994. Mexican soldiers raped native women in the mountains, 700 rapes were documented. The Mexican government refused to see this as a war crime. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1994 – The devalued peso after a financial crash in 1994. The NAFTA free trade deal the same year, forced thousands of Mexican farmers to sell up. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite (c)2010 US UK).

Jan Feb 1996 – Joseph A Whitt jr. The Mexican peso crisis federal reserve bank of Atlanta economic review.

1997 – Maria E Paz. Strategy, security and spies. Mexico and the US as allies in World War Two. Uni park Pennsylvania uni press.

11 Jan 1997 – 7.3 quake. Timeline of earthquakes.

20 Feb 1997 – Mexican mafia in US court. Racketeers murder. Christopher Reed. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.

1 June 1998 – Mexican mafia is blamed for priests killing. Sam Dillon. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.

2000 – The Oxford history of Mexico. Michael C Meyer. William H Beezley. New York Oxford uni press. Worldcat database.

2000 – Criminal and citizen in modern Mexico. Robert Buffington. Colonial period. Google books.

2000 – Organized crime and domestic, Mexico and the US Mexican borderlands. John J Bailey. Roy Godson. Pittsburg uni press Worldcat database.

2000-2008 – Between  2000 and 2008 there was a 300% increase in brothels, in Mexico. Chinese Mafia were sex trafficking from China to Mexico and the Caribbean. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2001 – Agencia Federal de Investigacion, AFI, Mexico’s version of the CIA was created in 2001. More than 800 AFI agents were investigated for drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, torture and murder. (Drug barons.Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2002 – The Mexican reader history culture politics. Gilbert M Joseph. Timothy I Henderson. Google books.

2002 – More than 600 members of the Mexican army’s 65^th infantry battalion protected the opium poppy and marijuana crops. Corruption was so bad that the government eventually abolished the entire battalion. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2004 – By 2004 90% of the US cocaine was coming through Mexico. Fortunes were made cocaine smuggling. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

25 Aug 2004 – Mexico rounds up drugs Mr very big. Pablo Garibian. The Courier Mail Brisbane QLD. Cocaine smuggling. Ismael Nayo Zambadi, cartel.

2005 – Drug trafficking in Mexico. Jose Luis Velasco. New York Routledge. Worldcat database.

2005 – Mexico produced more than 10,000 tons of cannabis, making it the world’s second largest marijuana producer. 30% of Mexico’s farmland was sewn in Marijuana or opium poppies. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

Oct 2005 – Hurricane Wilma had just devastated the Caribbean coast of Mexico. Sex trafficking, victims of slavery. Government officials, child pornography and sex trafficking. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2006 – In Mexico since 2006, real estate, lawyers and accountants report to the Mexican federal tax administration any money in cash. If its more than $10,000. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2006 – Mexico is second only to Iraq as the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. In 2006 nine Mexican journalists were murdered and three were disappeared. 2007 was worse. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite (c)2010 US UK).

2006-2007 – According to Mexican report 2007, says there is in Mexico a network of illegal Chinese migrants using Nicaragua and Mexican airports to the US. 2006 investigation Chinese network of sex slave trafficking exists. The Chinese Mafia buy and sell young girls. Corrupt Mexican immigration officials. The Chinese Mafia in Mexico, the Triads run child sex trafficking to clients. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

21 Nov 2006 – Official report, Mexico’s dirty war. Massacres, torture, disappearances and genocide.

1 Dec 2006 – 30 Sept 2011 – Drug war facts. Mexico govt records say 47,500 recorded organized crime murders.

2007 – More than 2,400 Mexicans were killed in drug related violence. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite © 2010 US UK).

Oct Nov 2007 – In Oct 2007 Mexican police seized 11 tons of cocaine in the port of Tampico. In Nov 2007 they seized a ship carrying 23 tons of cocaine in the Pacific port of Manzanillo, worth $1 billion if sold in the US. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

Dec 2008 – By Dec 2008 a further 5,600 people were killed in Mexico in drug related violence. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

27 April 2009 – 5.6 quake Chilpancingo. Timeline of earthquakes.

May 2009 – In the State of Zacatecas the Gulf cartel broke into a jail and freed at least 50 prisoners. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2010 – Mexico, the southern part of the state of Tlaxcala, sex trafficking. The border with Guatemala, is similar to the  rural areas of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Casino owners in Cambodia, UK and Nevada US, owners of brothels in Mexico, Colombia and Spain. A group of ex -military called the Zetas, control and distribute illegal adult and child porn in Mexico and Guatemala. Software comes from Singapore. Servers from Holland, where porn is legal. Russian mafia in Mexico and Guatemala. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under 5 in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been legally registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 boys and girls do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID is unable to identify themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Insight organized crime in the Americas. Laura Gomez. 5 Nov 2012. Most poppy grown in the region is Mexico with 14,000 in 2010. UNODC. Black tar heroin is  produced in Mexico.

Feb 2010 – Jonathan Stempel said in an article, that Western Union paid $94 million to stop a decade long investigation into its role in money laundering in Mexico. The Federal investigation said $39 billion was illegally trafficked each year into Mexico from the US. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

4 April 2010 – 7.3 quake south of the US border 2 killed 100 injured. Timeline of earthquakes.

30 June 2010 – 6.2 quake Oaxaca one killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

15 Sept 2010 - Mexican connection. Tim Palmer. Australian broadcasting corps. Sydney cocaine.

2011 – Casino Royale 52 people died in an arson attack. Police or drug traffickers? Exit doors were not working. Investigation flawed. (Corrupt Reuters Business insider 30 Sept 2014).

31 Jan 2011 – Mafia and Mexicans in the for drug push. The Australian national.

10 April 2011 – Drugs, guns and a mystery trip to Mexico. Pal Toohey. Sunday Sun Melbourne Australia. heroin from Chinese triads.

29 Aug 2011 – Mexican operation hits casinos. The Advertiser Adeleide Australia. 1500 slot machines at 11 casinos in Monterrey. Casinos paid taxes or not? Attack by gunmen on the casino Royale.

18 Sept 2011 – Narcotics use higher Mexican link to cocaine surge. Tim Connell. Herald NSW Australia.

10 Oct 2011 – Mexico drug cartels infiltrating Australia. Peter Mitchell. The Daily Telegraph online Surrey hills NSW.

11 Oct 2011 – Los Angeles. Violent Mexican drug cartels. The Courier Ballant Vic South Australian cocaine trafficking.

11 Oct 2011 – Murderous Mexican drug lords eyes on Australia. Advocate Tas. Trafficking cocaine heroin.

11 Oct 2011 – US warns of Mexican drug links to Australia, drug cartels. Los Angeles. Geelong Adelaide Vic. Trafficking cocaine.

10 Dec 2011 – 6.5 quake Guerreco Acapilco 3 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

2012 – Mexico’s struggle for public security, organized crime and the state. George Philip. Susana Berruecos. New York Palgrave Macmillan Worldcat database.

11 Feb 2012 – Huge Mexico meth haul. The Mercury Hobart Tas. Western Mexico half of all meth seized in 2009.

11 Feb 2012 – The meth. Arturo Perez. NZ Herald Auckland. Western Mexico half the meth seized worldwide in 2009, moved to meth.

March July 2012 – Crime in the states of Mexico. Ming Pan. Benjamin Widner. Carl E Enomoto. Article Wiley online library.

20 March 2012 – 7.4 quake Oaxaca Guerrera dead and injured. Timeline of earthquakes.

12 April 2012 – 6.9 quake Mexico city. Timeline of earthquakes.

19 Nov 2012 – Men accused of trafficking Mexican sex slaves to New York city plead not guilty. (New York daily news. Erica Pearson).

25 Nov 2012 – 19 bodies found in northern Mexico border state Ciudad Juarez Mexico near the US border. (Huffington post world).

14 Dec 2012 – Mexico meth smuggling scheme discovered. Two dozen people were  charged. Meth into California by Mexican drug cartel. (San Diego Huffington post).

12 Feb 2013 – Mexican gangs send cocaine via private jet. The Courier Mail Brisbane QLD Australia. Tonnes of cocaine flew to Australia. South America.

26 March 2013 – Earthquake southern Mexico. Timeline of earthquakes.

7 May 2013 – Money laundering and drug trade the role of  banks. Mexico is in the midst of a murder drug war that has killed over 150,000 people since 2006. Violent countries. (globalreach.ca).

6 Nov 2013 – Mexico’s San Fernando massacres, a declassified, Mexican cartels.

2014 – Organized crime in Mexico, the economy. Cameron HG Holmes. Lincoln Potomac books. uni of Nebraska press Worldcat database.

7 May 2014 – Activists struggle to loosen Mexican gun laws. Nick Miroff. The Washington Post.

18 May 2014 – Mexico’s drug war gamble. Joshua Partlow. Nick Miroff. The Washington Post.

27 June 2014 – Mexican military helicopters enter US airspace and fire on border agents. Now the end begins. Huston Texas, Breitbart Texas. They flew into Arizona and shots were fired.

28 June 2014 – Voice against corruption in Mexico falls silent. Joshua Partlow. The Washington Post.

1 July 2014 – 22 dead in Mexico shootout. TVNZ One news. Tlataya  near the state of Guerrero a warehouse in central Mexico state.

5 July 2014 – Closer look at massacres in Mexico reveals corruption. Aljazerra US. Mass graves and disappearances. Michelle Garcia and Ignacio Alvarado Alvarez. Corporate political power. Agents of the state. The disappeared. Unmarked graves. People disappear in Mexico, 26,121 or more like 200,000 people are victims. The news is suppressed and killings go unreported and uninvestigated.

7 July 2014 – 6.9 quake struck Mexico and Guatemala, 5 death toll. USA today. John Bacon.

8 July 2014 – Zee media bureau. Powerful earthquake rocks southern Mexico Central America, 4 dead. 7.1 magnitude quake.

14 July 2014 – Mexico and poverty. 45% of youth face food shortages. Latin Post. High youth 12-29 years old, mortality rates.

9 Aug 2014 – Chronic malnutrition among Mexico’s poor. In Oaxaca state especially. Al jazeera. Richard Levin.

10 Aug 2014 – Child porn. Mexico police arrested 15 people in a child porn probe. NZ Herald AP. Distribution of child porn on the internet. Sex trafficking and corruption. Disappearances of children. 267 complaints were received

21 Aug 2014 – Mexico says 22,322 people are now disappeared or missing. Aljazeera. The Governmet blames drug traffickers.

22 Aug 2014 – Aljezerra. Mexico missing people, disappeared 22,322 people now disappeared. Corruption.

22 Aug 2014 – Mexico says 22,322 people disappeared. Al Jazeera America. It said in May 2014 that 8,000 people were missing.

27 Aug 2014 – Mexico govt criticized over official missing people CTV news Mexico city. Manipulating data on the disappeared.

29 Aug 2014 – Mexican missing people situation is critical says UN. teleSUR English. Cases of disappeared people.

2 Sept 2014 – Peru’s historic cocaine bust linked to Mexican cartel. 7.7 tonnes cocaine haul.

9 Sept 2014 – Mexican drug cartels reach Peru. HBC news. 8 tonnes of cocaine. LA Daily Times.

14 Sept 2014 – Carnage after hurricane hits Mexico. Hurricane Odile. AP 17 Sept 2014.

15 Sept 2014 – Mexico’s Baja California peninsula two quakes. Latin America Tribune Mexico city. KABC TV.

15 Sept 2014 – The discovery of Mexico’s first coca plantation. Vice news. Cocaine.

17 Sept 2014 – Mexico to airlift after hurricane Odile. MSN.com. 30,000 tourists, 26,000 of them foreigners to be airlifted out.

18 Sept 2014 – Russia’s Gazprom, Lukov seek to invest in Mexico. Itar Tass.

20 Sept 2014 – Hurricane Odile cut off power, water and phones. Widespread looting in Los Labos. More than 8,000 federal troops and police arrived. Hundreds of stores were looted of food, water, supplies and houses were destroyed. Stuff.co.nz AP NZ Fairfax media.

22 Sept 2014 – Laundering Mexico’s drug money. Business insider. Court documents. Drug trafficking, sales back into Mexico.

23 Sept 2014 – Computer bungle leads to Mexico child porn arrest. San Antonio Express news. Mexico city AP. Children’s camp trips and child porn.

23 Sept 2014 – NZ Herald. Army killing of 22 people to get full probe. Mexico’s President says. New York AP 30 June 2014  killings.

23 Sept 2014 – Police. Mexican cartels trafficking cocaine directly from Colombia.VOA Bogota.

24 Sept 2014 – Two burned bodies found in Congress mans SUV. New Zealand Herald AP. Guaddajara Mexico DNA tests two people kidnapped.

28 Sept 2014 – Reuters. Cnews Canoe Canada. At least 18 killed in shootings in Mexico, and clashes. Drug smuggling routes. The army is accused of killings. Burned out trucks with dead bodies charred inside. 22 police were arrested in Guerrero. A politician was shot dead. A day after the kidnapping and killing if a Congressman.

29 Sept 2014 – 22 police held after Southern Mexico violence. SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle Acapulco AP. 22 police were arrested. Death of six people in Guerrero state.

29 Sept 2014 – 57 students missing. Fox news Latino. At least 6 killed. AP. 22 police offices were arrested in Guerrero. Acapulco. Students from a school.

30 Sept 2014 – Tourism and corruption in Mexico. Corruptour. Business insider. Anastasia Moloney Reuters.

1 Oct 2014 – Three soldiers killing of 22 people. SFGate Mexico city AP. Mexico army killed 22 people in a shootout. Three soldiers, homocide.

3 Oct 2014 – Mexican mafia tax collectors arrested for extortion KABC TV Santa Barbara police, Mexican mafia Surenos, 4 arrested. Santa Barbara Independent.

6 Oct 2014 – Mass graves were found after a police shootout. Police are suspected. NZ Herald AFP. Six pits were found. Police linked to organized crime.

6 Oct 2014 – Mexico police pulled bodies from mass graves. Wall Street Journal. Mexico. The Star. Several mass graves were found.

6 Oct 2014 – Jakarta Post Indonesia. Iguala Mexico lawyer, no fast ID for bodies in Mexico mass graves. Jose Antonio Rivera. AP Burned bodies in mass graves, six burial pits in Iguala.

9 Oct 2014 – San Bernadino charged. San Bernadino Verdugo of Mexican mafia, drug profits for lawyers fees and taxing local drug.

17 Oct 2014 – Ties to the Texas Mexican mafia. Amarillo. DPS Alfredo Rangel aged 37 Mexican mafia. KSAT San Antonio.

18 Oct 2014 – New York Times. Mexico finds many corpses but not the lost 43 students. Randal C Archibold. Grave sites in  Iguala. Janet Jarman. Five mass graves. Multiples clandestine graves with unknown occupants. Police and organized crime, corruption in Mexico. Thousands of people are still missing from Mexico.

19 Oct 2014 – Anger grows over Mexico’s missing. Drug cartels turn to human trafficking. The Independent UK. Big business for organized crime after drugs.

21 Oct 2014 – Mexico offers reward for info on missing students. NZ Herald. Bloomberg.

22 Oct 2014 – NBC news. The hunt for 43 students missing in an attack by police in Iguala Guerrero, focus on thousands of missing. More than 22,000 people are officially missing in Mexico.

29 Oct 2014 – Mexico focus on new mass graves in students disappearance. Los Angeles Times. The Guardian UK. A mass grave at a trash dump.

29 Oct 2014 – Mexico recoils as more bodies are found. Search for 43 students in Mexico, State of Guerrero. New York Times.

30 Oct 2014 – Mexico is looking for 43 missing students. Huffington Post. NPR blog. More than 200,000 people have disappeared in Mexico in the last 8 years, according to govt figures. Nik Steinberg is investigating, Foreign policy.

31 Oct 2014 – Decade of violence. Mic. Mexico’s corruption, drugs and terror. Mexico.

2 Nov 2014 – Mexican police, after the bodies of three missing Americans are found The Guardian. In the State of Tamauligas.

3 Nov 2014 – Case of the missing students and dangerous corruption in Mexico. PBS. More than 50 arrests. Disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero Mexico.

7 Nov 2014 – Slain Mexico students family demands justice. CNN Ayotzinapa. Victims of horrific torture. Getty images.

8 Nov 2014 – Families of missing students told of new remains. San Fransisco. 43 disappeared students in the Guerrero area. Protest in Mexico city on 6 Nov 2014.

9 Nov 2014 – Remains could be those of 43 missing Mexican students. CNN. The children were abducted by police on order of the local mayor, killed and burned.

12 Nov 2014 – Mexico student massacre. Bangkok Post. Mexico, remains of 43 students, torched in Guerrero. HQ and police.

29 Nov 2014 – Mexican doctor gets 11 years jail for liposuction death. The new age. Death of a patient in liposuction procedure. Getty images.

29 Nov 2014 – British forensics work with Mexican families to create a database. Telegraph UK. Disappearances. A humanitarian crisis.

14 Dec 2014 – Most of the people missing in Mexico are under 17 years old. TeleSUR English. There are at least 22,000 missing people in Mexico. 41% of them went missing during Pres Rena Nietos time in office.

19 Dec 2014 – Mexico to Long Island heroin pipeline busted. New York Daily Times. Millions of dollars of heroin from Mexico to Long Island US.

21 Dec 2014 – Mexico mafia enforcer arrested on weapons charges. KSAT San Antonio. Deaths of three members of the Texas Mexican mafia, racketeering charges too.

22 Jan 2015 – A drone carrying drugs crashes near the US Mexico border. BBC news.

23 Jan 2015 – Mexico’s drug smugglers turn travelers into unwitting drug mules. Daily Mail. Magnets under their cars in Mexico, then receiving illegal cargo near the border, in the US.

24 Jan 2015 – Mexico state police arrest police officer on kidnapping charges. Wall Street Journal. Mexico’s Tlaxcale province, corruption probe.

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