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A historical timeline from 1810 to the present

This fact sheet from 2015 outlines current U.S.-Mexico relations.

In this section you will find information related to issues of U.S.-Mexico relations, with media coverage and statements by U.S. and Mexican officials.

This site notes Mexico's involvement with the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.

A look at Mexico's health and mortality from the World Health Organization

An economic overview by the World Bank on Mexico

(EEOC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Consul of Mexico

Mexico will lose a portion of its U.S. security funding after the State Department concluded that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration hasn’t made enough progress in confronting human rights violations.

This article talks about the United State's and Mexico's interesting and complex issues.

Mexico has started letting American agents carry guns on its soil. A special Mexican unit trained by Americans has been revived after stalling because of mistrust and a sense of national pride. American agents are working with Mexican soldiers to seize guns, and the two nations just agreed on a plan to tackle the heroin epidemic.

Barack Obama shores up support for Mexico’s embattled leader.

A look at Mexico from Council on Hemispheric Affairs

A concise snapshot of current thinking on critical issues surrounding democracy and economic development of Mexico

Home page for the Speaker

Former DEA official Michael Vigil and Latin American Political Analyst Ana Maria Salazar break down the impact of Mexico's most notorious drug lord's escape.

Mexico’s president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, sits down with the Post’s William Booth and Nick Miroff to discuss a Human Rights Watch report that outlines 230 documented cases of torture or murder by Mexican soldiers and police and the zero arrests and convictions that follow. The president-elect says security forces who commit human rights violations will face prosecution.

Almost two million undocumented immigrants have been deported from the US since Barack Obama entered the White House, more than under any previous president.

In this passionate talk that's already caused a sensation in Mexico, Emiliano Salinas, son of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, confronts the current climate of violence in Mexico — or rather, how Mexican society responds to it. He calls on ordinary citizens to move from denial and fear to peaceful, community-based action. (Delivered in Spanish with English subtitles.)

Up to 100,000 people died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the last 6 years. We might think this has nothing to do with us, but in fact we are all complicit, says Yale professor Rodrigo Canales in this unflinching talk that turns conventional wisdom about drug cartels on its head. The carnage is not about faceless, ignorant goons mindlessly killing each other but is rather the result of some seriously sophisticated brand management.

Generation Z: How a generation of Mexican children are becoming embroiled in a dangerous paramilitary conflict

In northern Mexico, farm workers who pick produce bound for US supermarkets earn as little as $7 a day. They follow the harvest, traveling between the states of Sinaloa and Baja California as internal migrants in their own country. With daycare not an option, children join their parents on the job, sometimes working in 100-degree heat.

What are the political and economic priorities for Latin America’s leaders in the year ahead?