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Mexican marines and prosecutors arrested seven municipal police officers in the northern state of Nuevo Leon on charges of colluding with organized crime, the navy department said Wednesday.
The arrests are part of a strategy “to clean up.
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Gunmen believed to be linked to drug cartels killed four police officers and a doctor in apparently coordinated attacks in and around the northern Mexican city of...
made popular Dec 31 2010
The activities of white supremacist groups in the United States could be financed by Mexican drug cartels as a result of ties between the two groups, experts say....
made popular Nov 18 2010
The drug war in Mexico is so much more than cartels battling each other and the military fighting them all. On any given day you can open a newspaper or go on internet...
made popular Nov 9 2010
How much is six dollars and fifty cents? What can you buy with $6.50? Just off the top of my head, in the U.S., I’m thinking I could buy a couple gallons of gas,...
made popular Oct 21 2010
For the second time in four days, a public plaza full of innocent civilians has been turned into a blood stained war zone.
Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m., at least...
made popular Oct 8 2010
Lorenzo, a parrot which used to alert drug traffickers in the Colombian city of Barranquilla of police presence, was “caught” in the act by authorities when...
made popular Sep 23 2010
It was by turns defiant and deferential, part plea and part plaint, a message as much to the drug gangs with a firm grip on Ciudad Juárez, the bloodiest city in...
made popular Sep 22 2010
A Mexican newspaper on the U.S. border begged violent drug cartels for guidance on how to cover news in a way that would keep gangs from killing more journalists.
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made popular Sep 21 2010
El diario de Juarez has dedicated an open letter in Sunday’s newspaper editorial to the cartels which are destroying their once beautiful and prosperous city.
To...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Before his recent arrest, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, nicknamed “La Barbie,” left behind a stable Texas family and allegedly became one of Mexico’s most...
made popular Sep 11 2010
For the first time a senior American official has compared the Mexico drug war to an “insurgency” akin to the situation in Colombia in the 1980s, sparking tensions...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Hooded gunmen killed the mayor of a small town in the northern Mexico state of San Luis Potosi on Wednesday, and prosecutors announced the arrest of seven suspects in...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Violence against journalists in Mexico continues with impunity and has resulted in self-censorship that threatens Mexicans’ right of freedom of expression, the...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Her comments reflect a striking shift in public comment by the Obama administration about the violence and come as U.S. officials weigh a large increase in aid to...
made popular Sep 9 2010
At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, according to a U.S.-based media watchdog group that is calling on the government to respond...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Two bodies found in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas are believed to be those of a detective and police chief who investigated the massacre of 72 migrants, prosecutors...
made popular Sep 9 2010
The kidnappings of five petroleum company workers along with 30 others have terrorized the oil community, paralyzing segments of the business. Months later, families...
made popular Sep 7 2010
Félix survived his ordeal at the hands of the Zeta cartel, one of Mexico’s most ruthless drugs gangs. But he knows of many fellow migrants who suffered the same...
made popular Sep 6 2010
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Soldiers shoot dead suspected drug cartel members near US border.
made popular Sep 4 2010
Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Mexico City: President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war on Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Hermelindo Maquin set out from his home in the Guatemalan countryside in early August, leaving behind his small farm and pregnant wife as he began the long, perilous...
made popular Sep 3 2010
Six Cuban migrants held hostage by people smugglers were found at a resort on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
made popular Sep 3 2010
Ecuador’s president and Mexican officials confirmed Wednesday that a second person, a Honduran, had survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico last...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Paula Cruz wept quietly at the foreign ministry office in El Salvador’s capital after reporting that her son was missing — apparently kidnapped — in...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Four armed men entered a Monterrey medical center and abducted a plastic surgeon from the operating room.
The case provoked panic and hysteria among patients and...
made popular Aug 14 2010
We see it or read about it every day, dead or detained: most members of organized crime are youngsters, barely adolescents.
Instead of a pencils, they have AK-47,...
made popular Aug 12 2010
Hundreds of journalists marched in downtown Mexico City and thousands joined in other marches across the country Saturday in protest of the escalating intimidation,...
made popular Aug 11 2010
Mexico is in the midst of its most violent confrontation with drug traffickers, with an estimated 28,000 people killed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on...
made popular Aug 7 2010
Two journalists kidnapped earlier this week by armed gunmen in Gomez Palacio, Mexico, were freed by their captors unharmed Saturday, according to the state-run news...
made popular Aug 2 2010
T was lucky he heard his cellphone ring over the racket of his construction equipment as he worked outside in the suburbs last September. “We have your father,”...
made popular Aug 2 2010
General Édgar Luis Villegas of Mexico’s Secretary of Defense has confirmed the death of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel Villarreal during a military...
made popular Jul 30 2010
Mexican authorities are investigating the possible emergence of a new drug gang that appeared to take credit for six killings through a message left with the bodies...
made popular Jul 29 2010
In news from Mexico, the Washington Post reports grenades made in the United States and sent to Central America during the 1980s and ’90s are now being used by...
made popular Jul 26 2010
Suspected drug hitmen storm a private party and kill 17 people in Mexico Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks in Mexico’s drug war. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
made popular Jul 26 2010
The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday said immigration officials are working closely with Mexican authorities to investigate a series of stunning...
made popular Jul 26 2010
Responding to an emergency call of a policeman shot in downtown Juarez, an officer and a paramedic work frantically to save the man’s life - when in a flash, a...
made popular Jul 26 2010
A deadly car bomb last week in this violent border city may mark a turning point in Mexico’s bloody drug war as powerful smuggling cartels stage ever more bold...
made popular Jul 27 2010
Due to the climate of violence that has erupted in several states, the Army, Navy, Federal Police, and even members of the National Security and Investigation Center,...
made popular Jul 7 2010
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