Most of the Hispanics of Mexican origin living now in the US were actually born in the US, a new study has revealed. This is partly the result of the slowdown in recent years of the inflow of immigrants from Mexico. Still, Mexico remains the largest single source country of immigrants to the US, and Mexicans account for the largest number of illegal immigrants to the US. A new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center, released on 1 May, reveals that in 2012 there were 33.7m Hispanics of Mexican origin in the US. Apart from being…

One of the reasons the implementation of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s public security strategy is moving so slowly is the patchy adoption of the agreed unification of police force command at state level, partly held up by the absence of appropriate legislation. Also only partly adopted by the states is the penal reform approved by congress five years ago, with the lack of necessary legislation among the reasons. Interior Minister Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong recently admitted that one of the obstacles in the way of centralising at state level the various police forces is the lack of a legal instrument…

The federal government decided it had to intervene in Michoacán to contain the critical situation created by the confrontation between the ‘self-defence’ groups and Los Caballeros Templarios (LCT), a splinter of La Familia Michoacana — in which a third party, the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) appears to have become involved [SSR-13-04]. Initial actions by the military and the federal police targeted the ‘self-defence’ groups, apparently confining themselves to preventing them from bearing arms. On 21 May Interior Minister Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong announced that an undisclosed contingent of army and marine troops, and federal police officers had been…