Mexico drug war claiming more child victims
By Miguel Angel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY – Once largely spectators to the deaths of hitmen, police and innocent bystanders, children are increasingly in the firing line of Mexico’s drug war. Minors...
View ArticleDeath toll rises to 52 in Mexican casino attack
By Victor Hugo Valdivia MONTERREY, Mexico — Masked gunmen killed at least 52 people at a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, leaving it ablaze with patrons trapped inside in one of the worst attacks...
View ArticleCalderon blasts U.S.’s ‘insatiable’ demand for drugs after deadly casino attack
By Miguel Angel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY, Aug 26 (Reuters) – President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning on Friday and demanded a crackdown on drugs in the United States after armed men...
View ArticleCasino attacks prompt police force overhaul in Mexico
By Dave Graham MONTERREY – Despite suffering one of the worst attacks on civilians in Mexico for years, the state of Nuevo Leon is undaunted because it believes a radical police overhaul will soon...
View ArticlePoliceman now a suspect in Mexican casino attack
MONTERREY, Mexico — Mexico has detained a policeman suspected of having taken part in the torching of a crowded casino last week which killed 52 people, federal prosecutors said late Thursday. They...
View ArticleBloggers rattled after Mexican drug gang hangs bodies from bridge
MEXICO CITY — A Mexican drug gang this week issued a threat to websites that cover the drug war in a message placed near two mutilated bodies suspended from an overpass near the U.S. border. A placard...
View ArticleAnother 32 bodies found in Veracruz, Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Mexican security forces have found 32 bodies at several locations around the eastern city of Veracruz, authorities said on Thursday, barely two weeks after 35 corpses were dumped on a...
View ArticleMexican army captures man who ordered casino torching
MEXICO CITY — The army said it has captured the man believed to have ordered the torching of a casino in northern Mexico, killing 52 people in one of the worst attacks on civilians in the country in...
View ArticleSecond Mexican drug-war minister dies in mystery air accident
MEXICO CITY — Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday in a huge blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels. Blake, who for many Mexicans...
View ArticleWho will take over drug-torn Mexico in 2012?
The field of potential candidates for Mexico’s 2012 presidential elections has narrowed after left-wing stalwart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he would run for the presidency a second...
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Mexican troops seize $15.4M from country's most powerful drug lord
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s army seized nearly US$15.4-million from the organization of the country’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, officials said on Tuesday, marking a rare financial...
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At least 20 dead bodies found in cars in Guadalajara
By Rachel Uranga and Miguel Angel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities found more than 20 bodies in several cars left around a major traffic intersection in the western city of Guadalajara,...
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Ten thousand dead and counting: Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city that’s...
By Mica Rosenberg and Julian Cardona CIUDAD JUAREZ — In March, municipal police officers detained the two brothers of Armida Vazquez and whisked them away in patrol cars. Vazquez and her mother...
View ArticleMexican prison fight leaves 31 inmates dead
A fight between rival gangs inside a prison in northern Mexico left 31 inmates dead in the latest violence to erupt inside the country’s overcrowded jails, local officials said on Wednesday. Clashes...
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Mexico furiously pursuing Joaquin ‘Shorty’ Guzman to save its bloody war on...
Gerardo Magallon / AFP / Getty Images filesJoaquin Guzman — aka El Chapo, or “Shorty,” in English — escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001, and was named the world’s most wanted man after the death of...
View ArticleJosefina Vasquez Mota becomes Mexico conservatives’ first female presidential...
By Lizbeth Diaz and Mica Rosenberg MEXICO CITY — Voters from Mexico’s ruling conservative party selected their first woman presidential candidate on Sunday, choosing a former education minister to...
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Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto vows to tone down country's...
Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto pledged on Monday to focus on energy, labour and tax reforms and said he hopes to strike deals with opponents to help shepherd changes through Congress before...
View ArticleMexico's president tried to get the 'United States' out of the country's … name
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president is making one last attempt to get the “United States” out of Mexico — at least as far as the country’s name is concerned. The name “United Mexican States,” or “Estados...
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