A car bomb went off on Saturday in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, killing a police officer and wounding three others. This is the second such device to be used…
With record violence registered last year in Mexico, officials are struggling to frame the drug war policy as successful, even as some critics allege that the government's methods of monitoring…
Graphics published by Nexos magazine argue that Mexico's homicide rate spiked in places where President Felipe Calderon deployed the military.
In the latest of a series of prison breaks, on Monday fourteen inmates escaped from a penal center in Chihuahua, Mexico, where drug violence has led criminal syndicates like the…
Mexican police announced on Tuesday the capture of Flavio Mendez Santiago, alias "El Amarillo," a top leader of the feared Zetas criminal syndicate, in the town of Villa Etla,…
The number of people detained for drugs possession in Mexico's Federal District has increased 450 percent since 2002, the chair of the municipal health commission said.
The video offers a glimpse of the extensive street intelligence networks run by the Zetas, one of the most powerful and violent criminal syndicates in Mexico.
A Mexican security official in the state of Baja California said the Familia Michoacana, once one of Mexico's strongest drug cartels, pays the rival Tijuana Cartel to use…
The mayor of a small town in southern Mexico, Luis Jimenez Mata, was assassinated yesterday by unknown gunmen in the privacy of his home in the state of Oaxaca. …
Last year was the bloodiest year on record since Mexicos president, Felipe Calderon, took office four years ago. …
More than 34,000 Mexicans have died in drug trafficking-related homicides in the four years since Mexicos president, Felipe Calderon, declared war on the drug cartels after taking office in 2006.
Activist Marisela Escobedo, 52, was shot and killed while demanding justice for her daughter's murder in Chihuahua City on December 19, 2010.
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