Mexican authorities closed a barite mine run by a Canadian-Mexican company almost two weeks after the killing of a leading local activist enflamed tensions in the area. The Chiapas State government said Wednesday it had stopped open pit extraction at the mine in southeast Mexico due to environmental concerns and in response to demands from locals in the nearby mountain ...

Mexico's highest court ordered the release of nine more people convicted in a 1997 massacre of Indians, ruling Wednesday their convictions were based on illegally obtained evidence. New trials were ordered for 16 others. It was the second time this year the Supreme Court ...

Some 150 indigenous farmers took over a UN office in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas to demand the release of three jailed leaders, their group said Saturday. The Tzotzil Indians, who also sought "refuge as internally displaced persons" during Friday's move, took this "desperate measure to attract attention and secure the release of three comrades," the Emiliano Zapata ...