CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — "Not one person murdered yesterday," Ciudad Juarez's leading newspaper proclaimed in a banner headline. It was big news ...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...
AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 peop...
AP | OLIVIA TORRES and ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Neighbors mopped blood from the sidewalk outside a drug rehabilitation center Thursday, cleaning up the carnage after gu...
Federico Manfredi | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Ciudad Juárez acquired the dubious reputation of wild border town during the Prohibition years, and has long been a major transshipment point for drugs entering the United States, but bloody struggles among rival cartels here are a relatively new phenomenon that stems from recent domestic and international developments.
Federico Manfredi | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
When I asked him whether he was referring to the agents of the Sinaloa Cartel, who are allegedly attempting to take over the city from the Juárez Cartel, he became nervous and defensive: "Why do you ask me if you already know?"
Javier Sierra | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green
The smelter spewed hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic substances such as lead, arsenic and cadmium, into the atmosphere and the communities that lived in its shadow.
The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
The Washington Post has launched a year-long series -- "Mexico at War" -- that will take a closer look into the Mexican drug war and offer snapshots o...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
The Mexican president has blamed US "corruption" for hampering his nation's efforts to combat violent drug cartels....
AP | MARINA MONTEMAYOR | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A fight between gangs at a state prison in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez left at least 20 prisoners dead and ...
BBC | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought over by rival drug gangs. Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 04.01.2009 | World
If, like me, you're one of the millions of Americans who love Mexico, its current catastrophic crime wave can only fill you with sadness -- and fear that it will spread across our porous border.
New York Times | MARC LACEY | Posted 04.01.2009 | World
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico -- Mayor José Reyes Ferriz is supposed to be the one to hire and fire the police chief in this gritty border city that is at t...
Stanton Peele | Posted 03.31.2009 | Living
Are those of us who seek changes in the American approach to drugs whistling in the dark, or is now the time to strike?
Los Angeles Times | Ken Ellingwood | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
Reporting from Mexico City -- Amid growing alarm over drug violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the Mexican government will deploy as many as 5,000 more...
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Ciudad Juarez's police chief stepped down Friday after criminal gangs made a chilling demand: Resign or we will kill mor...
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 12.07.2009 | World