Given shifting political realities, it is easy enough to imagine that the drug war will one day come to an end. Yet, in light of the power and influence of the defense establishment, draconian policies may still prevail for some time at an enormous human cost.

When Javier Sicilia's son Juan was brutally murdered on March 28, 2011, after a fight in a nightclub, the famed Mexican poet abandoned writing. Before...

MEXICO CITY — The slayings of four youths whose bodies were cut to pieces and left in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexico city of Cuer...

Just a few steps south of the U.S.-Mexico border, President Calderón unveiled a towering billboard last week wielding a message written in plain English.

HERMOSILLO, Sonora — An activist who publicly accused police officers of kidnapping his teenage son was shot to death in an attack that instantl...

President Fox is part of a growing choir of world leaders speaking out against the drug war.

When prominent Mexican poet Javier Sicilia lost his 24-year-old son to drug-related violence this past March, he took to his pen.

MEXICO CITY -- A lawyer for Mexican poet Javier Sicilia says Sicilia's son and six friends were suffocated with tape and bandages in killings that spa...