Mexico Project

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Mexico's 1971 Corpus Christi Massacre, Fifty Years Later

Washington D.C., June 10, 2021 – Fifty years ago today, a group of pay-for-hire thugs known as the “Halcones” or “Falcons” swarmed the streets of Mexico City in a coordinated…

Jun 10, 2021

Previous Postings

Forensic specialists from the Mexican Federal Police examine one of the primary crime scenes from the Allende massacre on January 28, 2014.

The Allende Massacre in Mexico: A Decade of Impunity

Mar 18, 2021

U.S. Prosecutions Bring Mexico Corruption into Focus

Dec 9, 2020

Fifty Years After Tlatelolco, Censoring the Mexican Archives: Mexico’s “Dirty War” Files Withdrawn from Public Access

Oct 2, 2018

Prelude to Iguala: "Heavy-handed police tactics" used against Ayotzinapa students in 2011

Oct 7, 2015

US: Mexico Mass Graves Raise "Alarming Questions" about Government "Complicity" in September 2014 Cartel Killings

May 12, 2015

Mexico: Los Zetas Drug Cartel Linked San Fernando Police to Migrant Massacres

Dec 22, 2014

Mexico's San Fernando Massacres: A Declassified History

Nov 6, 2013

Archival Evidence of Mexico's Human Rights Crimes: The Case of Aleida Gallangos

Mar 9, 2010

Mexico: Breaking the Silence

Aug 20, 2009

Blog Posts

Mexican Community Seeks Help in Mining Conflict

Nov 27, 2019

Five Years Later, the Search Continues

Sep 26, 2019

Transcripts of intercepted cell phones open new lines of investigation in Ayotzinapa case

Apr 16, 2018

Journalists Are Dying in Mexico

Jun 15, 2017

Tlatlaya Revealed: Archive Petition Cracks Open Investigative File on Mexican Army Massacre

Mar 4, 2016

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In the Media

Former Official Wanted by Mexico Takes Refuge in Israel

The New York Times

Jul 15, 2021

Masacre de Allende: el silencio del general

Proceso

Jun 20, 2021

Dozens of Students Killed by the Government: Mexico's 1968 Massacre and Its Echoes Today

WNYC - New York Public Radio

Oct 2, 2018

Mexico Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of a Massacre

The New York Times

Oct 2, 2018

Impunity reigns

The Times Literary Supplement

Sep 26, 2018

Project co-directors

Kate Doyle

KATE DOYLE is a Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. She directs several major research projects (Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador) that seek to connect the right to truth and access to information with human rights and justice struggles in Latin America.

Michael L. Evans

MICHAEL L. EVANS is a senior analyst and director of the Archive's Colombia and Mexico documentation projects. Evans is editor of Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010, a primary source collection of more than 2,000 declassified documents on political violence and U.S. policy in Colombia.