Mark Stevenson

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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2014, file photo, the Sonora river contaminated by the spill of millions gallons of copper sulfate and heavy metals from a copper mine, makes its way through the hills near the town of Mazocahui, in the northern state of Sonora, Mexico. Water pollution disasters in Mexico have turned into political battles as officials struggled to blame each other for the problems. On Wednesday Sept 10, 2014, Sonora Gov. Guillermo Padres blamed federal authorities for not doing enough to stop or remediate the spill. (AP Photo/El Imparcial, Julian Ortega, File)

Mexico pollution, water disputes turn political

Mark Stevenson · September 10, 2014 11:34 pm

Mexico turns to army, drones for security

Mexico turns to army, drones for security

Mark Stevenson · September 2, 2014 3:40 am

RESENDING RLB101 TO REPLACE CORRUPT FILE - Immigration officials remove Central American migrants from a northbound freight train during a raid by federal police in San Ramon, Mexico, just after midnight on the morning of Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The largest crackdown by Mexican authorities on illegal migration in decades has decreased the flow of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States, and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families, according to officials and eyewitness accounts along the perilous route. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico authorities stage midnight migrant raid

Mark Stevenson · August 29, 2014 8:59 pm

$In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, a Central American migrant sits alone atop a freight train as it heads north from Arriaga to Ixtepec, Mexico. A Mexican crackdown seems to be keeping women and children off the deadly train, known as "The Beast," that has traditionally helped thousands of migrants head north. The once-open route to the United States has become so difficult that trains now carry a small fraction of the migrants they used to, and almost exclusively adult men. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)$ Immigration

Mexico operations thwart child, family migrants

Mark Stevenson · August 29, 2014 4:47 pm

Central American migrants walk along overgrown train tracks several kilometers outside Arriaga in Chiapas state, Mexico, as they wait for a northbound freight train, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. A Mexican federal official says the government plans to improve railway surveillance and increase the speed of northbound trains in hopes of deterring Central American migrants from riding on top of freight cars. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico officials pull CentAm migrants from trains

Mark Stevenson · August 27, 2014 2:08 am

Officers belonging to Mexico's newest police force, known as the gendarmerie, march during the launching ceremony for the new force at the Federal Police headquarters in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Gendarmerie members will be a division of the federal police and will be sent to protect areas like those where wheat and sorghum farmers, banana growers and mining firms have been hit by organized crime. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico creates special force for economic crime

Mark Stevenson · August 22, 2014 10:37 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, July 3, 2014, file photo, state police stand inside a warehouse where a black cross covers a wall near blood stains on the ground, after a shootout between Mexican soldiers and alleged criminals on the outskirts of the village of San Pedro Limon, in Mexico state, Mexico. The New York-based group Human Rights Watch is calling on Aug. 22, 2014, on the Mexican government to fully investigate a supposed shootout in which soldiers killed 22 suspects while suffering only one soldier wounded. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Rights group asks Mexico probe into army slayings

Mark Stevenson · August 22, 2014 9:58 pm

Mexico arrests 13 at water-rate protest by Mayas

Mexico arrests 13 at water-rate protest by Mayas

Mark Stevenson · August 21, 2014 9:30 pm

In this Aug. 14, 2014 photo, the contaminated Sonora river makes its way near the town of Ures, in the northern state of Sonora, Mexico. Eighty-eight schools in Sonora state did not open Monday along with the rest of the country because of the danger of water contaminated by the spill of 10 million gallons (40,000 cubic meters) of acids from a copper mine into this and another river in the region. (AP Photo/El Imparcial, Julian Ortega)

Mexico says mine firm lied about chemical spill

Mark Stevenson · August 19, 2014 10:07 pm

Mexico fines Chinese trade center $555,000

Mexico fines Chinese trade center $555,000

Mark Stevenson · August 15, 2014 10:43 pm

Mexico says mine slow to report huge acid spill

Mexico says mine slow to report huge acid spill

Mark Stevenson · August 12, 2014 7:01 pm

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, center, is applauded by Senate leader Raul Cervantes Andrade, left, and House Speaker Jose Gonzalez Morfin at a ceremony to mark the signing of a historic energy reform bill, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The law will open the state-run oil, gas and electricity industries to foreign and private companies. Mexico is hoping for tens of billions of dollars in outside investment in deep-water oil drilling and shale gas production. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico opens gas, oil to foreign, private firms

Mark Stevenson · August 11, 2014 8:22 pm