Aug 24 2010
Police in Mexico say they have found at least 19 bodies in an abandoned mine shaft in Hidalgo, near Mexico City. The security forces said they found the decomposing remains after a tip-off from two alleged members of a drug cartel they had arrested on...
Mar 16 2010
The FBI will take part in the investigation into three people linked to the US Consulate being killed last weekend in this border city near El Paso, Texas, Mexican authorities said. ‘In Ciudad Juarez are several FBI (Federal Bureau of...
Mar 15 2010
Gunmen killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in this violent border city with their baby in the back seat, minutes after the husband of another consular employee was shot to death and his two children wounded, officials said...
Mar 5 2010
The woman has joined her daughter and granddaughter in prison facing charges that they murdered a man to collect $2.4 million (£1.7m) in insurance money, the Mexico City district attorney’s office said. All three women are accused of involvement in...
Feb 25 2010
Amnesty International expressed disappointment Wednesday over a Mexican court’s refusal to overturn the 21-year sentences imposed on two indigenous women for the alleged kidnapping of federal agents. Teresa Gonzalez, Alberta Alcantara and Jacinta...
Jan 25 2010
The country’s drugs cartels, which control most of the cocaine and methamphetamine smuggled into the United States, are estimated to have brought $25-$40 billion (£15-£25 billion) into Mexico from their global operations in 2009. A survey of...
Nov 10 2009
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained legally openly criticizes a younger patron who is married to a trafficker. The...
Sep 19 2009
The Mexican government posted security camera footage Saturday of a shooting inside a subway station that left two people dead and at least five wounded at the height of evening rush hour.
Jun 5 2009
U.S. counterterrorism officials have authenticated a video by an al Qaeda recruiter threatening to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border, the latest sign of the terrorist group’s determination to...