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A massive army surge has failed to calm raging drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the U.S. border that is at the heart of President Felipe...
made popular Jul 9 2009
Three decapitated bodies and a human head were recently discovered in three different municipalities of the state of Mexico.
The first two cadavers were found...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Mexico’s midterm elections held on Sunday, July 5, had a little something for everybody’s inner cynic. As the leading parties, PRI and PAN threw political...
made popular Jul 8 2009
“The PRI comes back” shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, the day after the political party known as the PRI swept midterm...
made popular Jul 7 2009
There’s a whole lot of bitchy people wandering Mexico today. Of course not everyone is feeling irritable, but the ones who forgot about the infamous pre-election...
made popular Jul 6 2009
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said yesterday that all nations were equally at risk of a new flu outbreak and he called for a global response to the disease.
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made popular Jul 6 2009
The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
made popular Jul 4 2009
Two of Mexico’s famed midget wrestlers were found dead in a hotel room Wednesday, after apparently being drugged and robbed by prostitutes in the Moderna hotel...
made popular Jul 3 2009
“What is at stake today is not just the result of an election, but rather the future of democracy, of representative institutions,” he said. “For years … crime...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Filed under: News, Weird When Mexican officials discovered almost a ton of cocaine inside a shipment of frozen sharks, it was hard not to feel a tinge of respect for...
made popular Jun 25 2009
If you know what’s good for you, fisherman Teodoro Contreras says, stay away from certain places after sunset on the beaches of Mexico’s southern...
made popular Jun 24 2009
“I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.”
Mr. Reta was 13 when he was recruited by the Zetas, the infamous...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Today in Cancún, police were led to an abandoned Jeep with three dead men announcing a new group, the Mata Zetas, or the Killers of Zetas. The Zetas are the armed...
made popular Jun 22 2009
A stray golden retriever mix who had recently wandered into the hearts of a poor family outside Monterrey, Mexico, was deemed a hero today as he saved his four year old...
made popular Jun 22 2009
A group of armed men blew up an ambulance Friday, apparently with a grenade, to kill a rival who was being transferred from one hospital to another.
The attackers,...
made popular Jun 20 2009
I have seen many debates involving criminals, punishments, rehabilitation, and the death penalty. In general, although skeptical and at times cynical, I am a hopeful...
made popular Jun 20 2009
I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. I know I tend to be both skeptical and cynical, but putting a statue of little Edgar Hernandez, Mexico’s first swine...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Many of the firearms fuelling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, says a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Scientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander, which according to ancient mythology is a transformed Aztec god, in the hope its ability to...
made popular Jun 19 2009
One election spot shows a masked wrestler fighting drug traffickers and promising to crack down on cartels. Another ad vows to give the death penalty to kidnappers. A...
made popular Jun 18 2009
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AP, Iowa City
Gangs of men punching people on the street at random. Street fights where bystanders sometimes cheer, and where those who try to intervene sometimes get beaten...
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Vancouver
Gang violence is tarnishing the international reputation of Vancouver as it prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the city’s mayor said Friday.
made popular Mar 7 2009
AP, Walla Walla
Robert Walker is a recent arrival to the new gang unit at the Washington State Penitentiary. He likes his new home, as far as anyone can like prison.
made popular Feb 5 2009
AP, Beijing
China plans to set up a special unit to crack down on organized crime, which is on the increase as the country’s economy slows, state media said Monday.
made popular Dec 22 2008
AP, Beijing
China plans to set up a special unit to crack down on mafia-style organized crime, which is on the increase as the country’s economy slows, state media said...
made popular Dec 22 2008
A Rio de Janeiro drug gang used alligators to terrify residents of the slum they ran, and possibly even to make the bodies of murdered rivals “disappear,”...
made popular Sep 5 2008
AP, Avalon
It seems even 22 miles of open ocean might not be keeping gangs off Catalina Island, a mist-shrouded outpost of Los Angeles County best known for its Hollywood history...
made popular Jul 11 2008
As Ben Kinsella becomes the 17th teenager to be murdered this year on London’s streets, here’s the man with a radical scheme to cut gang killings in...
made popular Jul 1 2008
AP, Nairobi
Sixteen-year-old Dan Mugambi stands guard at a bridge in his Nairobi slum, one skinny hand on his machete, ashes caught in his hair.Behind him, hundreds of angry young...
made popular Jan 2 2008
AP, Washington
The Senate Friday agreed to devote $1 billion over the next five years to combat street gangs and protect witnesses of gang violence.Legislation approved by voice vote...
made popular Sep 21 2007
Violence in whatever form it may break gains a high profile, not only in media but also in our minds. Is this a indication that today, we only give an ear to blasts,...
made popular Aug 20 2007
In the midst of poverty and violence, the life of children living in Haiti’s capital has been reduced to nothing. Armed gangs use the children as messengers, drug...
made popular Oct 17 2005
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Police officers assist as the coroner removes a body following a suspected shooting in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. Canada’s top cop labelled Metro Vancouver the country’s gang capital Tuesday as police in the region identified the young...
