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Six Executed In Mexican Car Lot

AP | Posted 05.15.2013 | World

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- A gang of assailants armed with assault rifles drove up to a northern Mexico car lot and shot to death six men. Authorities ...

Molly O'Toole

Another Loser In Gun Reform's Failure: Mexico

HuffingtonPost.com | Molly O'Toole | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics

In the debate over reforming U.S. gun laws, opponents and supporters cite powerful statistics: 26 dead, 20 of them children, in the Sandy Hook Element...

Mexico At Odds Over How To Mourn Drug War Victims

AP | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | Posted 04.05.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — Mexico, a country suffering the turmoil of a drug war, can't agree on how to honor the victims of a six-year assault on organized ...

PHOTO: 7 Executed And Left On Mexican Roundabout

Posted 03.26.2013 | World

A gruesome photo out of Mexico appears to show the bodies of seven men, propped up in plastic chairs on a busy traffic circle. All appear to have been...

Mexican Police Seize 9 Tons Of Pot Near Texas Border

AP | Posted 03.16.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican federal police say they have seized more than nine tons of marijuana, 370 pounds (168 kilograms) of crystal meth and a large ca...

'The Most Severe Crisis Of Enforced Disappearances In Latin America In Decades'

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 04.22.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in a report Wednesday that cites 249 cases of disappearances t...

Police Chief Of Violent Mexican Border City Missing

AP | Posted 02.19.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY -- The police chief of the violent Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo is missing, authorities said Monday. Tamaulipas state prosecutors ...

Mexican Vigilantes Take Justice Into Their Own Hands

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 04.02.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — Vigilantes who have taken up arms against drug cartel violence and common crime in southern Mexico announced Thursday they will br...

Mexican Self-Defense Squads Take Up Arms To Protect Their Families

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 03.23.2013 | World

AYUTLA, Mexico — The young man at the roadside checkpoint wept softly behind the red bandanna that masked his face. At his side was a relic revo...

Mexico Turned Over Drug Suspect To US Officials

AP | Posted 03.21.2013 | Latino Voices

TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities say a drug trafficking suspect is in jail in Arizona following his arrest in Mexico. The Pima County Sheriff's Depa...

Mexico Detains Unlikely Band Of Alleged Drug Traffickers

AP | Posted 01.02.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican marines say they have detained an unlikely band of drug traffickers that includes 12 boys and a woman with a baby who possessed...

Mexican Gunmen Try To Rob Drug Boss' Body

AP | Posted 02.28.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — Mexican marines have slain four gunmen who apparently were trying to steal the body of a Zetas cartel chieftain killed by the mili...

Mexico Finds New Drug Smuggling Tunnel To U.S.

AP | Posted 12.07.2012 | World

TECATE, Mexico -- The Mexican army says it has found a new tunnel dug by drug smugglers under the border with the United States. The army says it fou...

Teun Voeten Declares War in Mexico

Harris Silver | Posted 02.03.2013 | Books
Harris Silver

Narco Estado: Drug Violence in Mexico, by Teun Voeten, takes a thorough look at the drug violence in Mexico. For the past two decades Voeten has been covering conflicts around the world. According to him, "Nothing compares to the recent drug violence in Mexico."

Soldiers: Mexican Beauty Queen Had Weapon In Hand When She Was Gunned Down

AP | MARTIN DURAN | Posted 01.27.2013 | World

CULIACAN, Mexico — A Mexican beauty queen killed over the weekend in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and soldiers likely was being...

Mexico Finds Tortured, Bound Bodies Of 4 Men

AP | Posted 11.26.2012 | World

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- The tortured and bound bodies of four men were found Monday in an isolated mountainous region of the northern border state of...

Lawmaker Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill

Reuters | Posted 01.15.2013 | World

By Noe Torres MEXICO CITY, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A leftist Mexican lawmaker on Thursday presented a bill to legalize the production, sale...

Marijuana Legalization Prompts Demands From Mexico

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN | Posted 01.12.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — A group of Latin American leaders declared Monday that votes by two U.S. states to legalize marijuana have important implications ...

Mexico Makes Major Drug Arrest

AP | Posted 01.05.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's army arrested a lieutenant to Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman who they believe ordered the killing of ant...

Mexico Detains 23 Officers For Alleged Drug Links

AP | Posted 11.02.2012 | World

TOLUCA, Mexico -- Authorities in a Mexican state adjoining Mexico City say they are questioning 23 police officers who worked in the capital's suburbs...

7 Killed In Shootout With Mexican Marines

AP | Posted 12.23.2012 | World

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say seven people, including two women, have been killed in a shootout with marines in the northern state of Za...

'They Beat You, Kidnap You, Rob You'

AP | MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN | Posted 12.20.2012 | World

MORELIA, Mexico -- On a cool September evening, about a half hour after the sun set on the rose-colored Baroque cathedral of this colonial city in wes...

U.S. Arrests Daughter Of Notorious Mexican Drug Lord

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 12.16.2012 | World

SAN DIEGO — The daughter of one of the world's most sought-after drug lords has been charged with trying to enter the United States on someone e...

Everything You Need To Know About Mexico's Notorious Zetas

Reuters | Posted 12.09.2012 | World

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Mexico says it has killed the leader of the brutal Zetas drug gang, the most powerful kingpin to fall in a six-year battle against...

Milestones In Mexico's War On Drugs

Reuters | Posted 12.09.2012 | World

Below are some milestones since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and declared war on powerful drug cartels. About 60,000 peopl...