Vigilante Justice Spreads Across Mexico
By Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The five teenage boys slump against the wall of a dark house and eye the camcorder nervously. Suddenly, a fis...
By Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The five teenage boys slump against the wall of a dark house and eye the camcorder nervously. Suddenly, a fis...
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...
Tony Newman | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
In the last week both Mexico and Argentina made international news by passing a law and making a major Supreme Court ruling calling for low-level drug offenders to receive treatment instead of jail.
AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., blocked the release of a favorable State Department report on Mexico's human rights record, The Washingt...
GlobalPost | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
Ioan Grillo | GlobalPost CULIACAN, Mexico -- The colossal water cistern set in a clearing in a hilly, heavily forested area can hold 25,000 liters ...
AP | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA and FRANK BAJAK | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, d...
GlobalPost | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
By Todd Bensman | GlobalPost SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Their stories may be heart-rending. Their experiences may seem unimaginable. Their lives may st...
Washington Post | Steve Fainaru and William Booth | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
PUERTO LAS OLLAS, Mexico -- The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, ...
Mother Jones | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
There is a man driving fast down a dirt road leading to the border. A rooster tail of dust marks his passage. He is very frightened and his 15-year-ol...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug e...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
There's a new drug war brewing along the U.S. border -- but this time it's coming from up north. As Mexico cracks down on its warring drug factions, d...
New York Time | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed. It was like being Superman or James Bond,...
AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — When Mario Anguiano successfully ran for mayor of Colima three years ago, no one much cared that his brother and cousin were in pr...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
BADIRAGUATO, Mexico — The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs...
GlobalPost | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
SAN ANTONIO -- Lawyer Ernesto Gutierrez fled Matamoros, Mexico, to the U.S. last year after the much-feared Los Zetas enforcement wing of the Gulf Car...
AP | eec-ms | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — A survey by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission shows that thousands of mainly Central American migrants crossing the countr...
AP | Sara Miller Llana | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army has captured 25 gunmen in northern Mexico who witnesses say disguised themselves as soldiers. The men were captu...
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — In a hair-raising standoff that sent motorists scrambling for cover, municipal police pulled their guns on masked federal agents i...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Federal forces detained 10 mayors and 18 other officials Tuesday for allegedly protecting one of Mexico's most violent drug cartel...
AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Soldiers have arrested a suspected drug cartel member listed among Mexico's 37 most-wanted traffickers, the Defense Department sai...
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Security camera footage shows that guards at a Mexican prison nonchalantly stood by as 53 dangerous inmates walked out _ and didn'...
Reuters | Posted 06.16.2009 | World
Suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel disguised as federal police entered a state prison in the northern state of Zacatecas on Saturday and freed...
Global Post | Todd Bensman | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
Todd Bensman interviews a former Mexican soldier who changed sides, joining a drug cartel....
Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Authorities say Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the reputed leader of the Mexican cartel, has given his associates the OK, if necessary, to open fire acros...
AP | ISTRA PACHECO | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Mexican police on Wednesday arrested suspected Zeta gang leader Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, one of Mexico's 24 most-wanted drug traff...
Global Post | Ioan Grillo | Posted 10.28.2009 | World