Monterrey
Jun 1 2011, Oscar

A brave pre-school teacher calmed her young students fears by creating a sing along while five men were executed in a shoot out near the school.

According to El Norte, five men were executed by a group of armed men traveling in several pick...

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By Tomas Bravo Reuters Authorities in northern Mexico are investigating the police after suspected hitmen snatched the body of a murdered Mexican television actor from...
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EFE 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...
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Gunmen who opened fire and executed a man in his vehicle in the Treviño area of Monterrey last night left yet another innocent victim: eight month old Alejandra del...
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Drug hitmen killed a senior police chief in one of the most brazen attacks yet in Monterrey, Mexico’s richest city, El Norte daily reported. Homero Salcido...
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Five people, including two innocent bystanders, were killed and two injured when an armed comando, (groups of well trained, heavily armed gunmen used in hit and run...
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After condemning the execution of official Transit occurred yesterday near Avenida Revolucion, Mayor Fernando Larrazabal said it is clear that the state government has...
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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...
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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,...
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El Universal By: Salvador Camarena I’ve had enough of interviewing victims. I’m tired of hearing them fall apart at the end of the conversation, watching...
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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...
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Although Monterrey, Nuevo Leon is suffering through it’s worse security crisis in history, a report made public yesterday by the citizen awareness organizaion,...
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Mexico’s Defense Department says it will compensate the families of two university students killed in northern Mexico when they were caught in crossfire between...
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The U.S. consulate in Monterrey warned local U.S. citizens that Friday’s shootout in front of the prestigious American School Foundation stemmed from a failed...
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The kidnapped mayor of a northern Mexican town was found dead Wednesday, extending a rash of deadly attacks on political figures in an area besieged by drug gang...
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The disappearance of the mayor of a small picturesque tourist town already marred by extortion, kidnappings, and recent executions of at least twelve of it’s...
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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...
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Acting on a tip from an anonymous informant, investigators dug up a rural area 12 miles east of Monterrey, uncovering 51 corpses, 48 men and 3 women, some burned beyond...
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The wealthy city is perhaps paying the price for tolerating the presence of drug traffickers for so many years. Now, ’security is collapsing,’ an official...
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At least five people have been killed at a concert in Mexico following a stampede to the exits after gunfire was heard.
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MONTERREY, Mexico — The Mexican army says soldiers killed five men in a shootout with assailants near the northern city of Monterrey.
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Despite the unanimous demand of citizen leaders urging the Governor of Nuevo Leon to act after Wednesday’s wave of narco violence left a record of 13 dead, six...
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Dozens of gunmen burst into a Holiday Inn and another hotel in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey Wednesday, searching from room-to-room and abducting at least six...
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Before the start of the Easter holidays, the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey issued a new travel warning, the second in this month-to warn its citizens in Mexico of the...
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A Navy-led rescue attempt was interrupted by a shootout early Saturday in the increasingly violent northern Mexico state of MonterreyAuthorities said that unidentified...
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Groups of cartel paid delinquents created chaos and panic by hijacking more than 50 vehicles and setting up roadblocks in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and its metropolitan...
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It was a scene of classic do-it-yourself Brooklyn concert promotion: In a small apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a dozen young workers who could pass for American...
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In scenes that are more appropriate for the movies than real life, thousands of Mexicans continue fleeing Juarez’s insecurity and violence, reporting an exodus...
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According Mercer’s 2009-2010 National Cost of Living survey, Monterrey due to it’s high energy consumption and elevated costs in food and staples, has once...
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Soldiers raiding a drug gang safe house in northern Mexico found money-stuffed envelopes earmarked for various police forces and one marked for the “press.”...
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Dammit Grammie, when you said your pension wasn’t covering the bills and you wanted to find a side job, I thought you meant baking pies or knitting scarves for...
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Ah, the day just wouldn’t be complete here in Mexico without a least one ecotaxi mowing down a pedestrian and trying to run from the scene. As was the case with...
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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...
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FOTO: SOLDIERS DO NOT LET US LIVE “IN PEACE”, WE ARE SCARED. In the last ten days, the streets of the Northern industrial city Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, have...
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A spokeswoman for Mexico’s Attorney General’s office who is not authorized two give her name says shell casings were found outside the consulate. But there...
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Officials examine a car related to an attack on the offices of the television company Televisa in Monterrey, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Masked gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade at the station as it aired its nightly newscast Tuesday, leaving..