Franc Contreras

Al Jazeera speaks to a lawyer who is work­ing to in­ves­ti­gate the deaths of 18 men in Mex­i­co, in­clud­ing mem­bers of her fam­i­ly, who drug car­tel gun­men mis­took for mem­bers of a ri­val gang.

In Aca­pul­co, 140 el­e­men­tary schools have closed as teach­ers face ex­tor­tion and kid­nap­pings from gang­sters.

Mass ral­ly planned to mark crack­down two years ago that left 27 pro­test­ers dead.

Cheap im­ports have left Mex­i­can pro­duc­ers strug­gling.

A place once fa­mous for pure wa­ter faces tex­tile-in­dus­try pol­lu­tion.