Peace Brigades International (PBI) Mexico would like to express its concern for the safety of staff and residents of the migrants' shelter "Digna Frontera" in Piedras Negras, Coahuila run by Father José Guadalupe Valdes, who are at risk after a staff member was attacked and threatened on Monday 9 May.

On the 30th of April, 2008, the small community of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, located in the Mixteca region of the State of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, was shaken by the news of a triple homicide. Amnesty International reported that dozens of armed men headed by the former Mayor of Ixcatlán, Freddy Eucario Morales Arias, brutally murdered three members of the community: Gustavo Castañeda Hernández, Melesio Martínez Robles and Inocencio Medina Bernabé.