Mexicos Drug War

Terrorist Or Activist? A Young Colombian, Gabriel Gonzalez, Fights For His Country, His Reputation (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


Diane Tucker

Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.

Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 09.21.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday – a move that prosecutors say makes sense eve...

Mexico's Prisons: Complete With Pizza Delivery, Prostitutes, And Rampant Drug Trade

nytimes.com | MARC LACEY | Posted 09.11.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY The surveillance cameras captured it all: guards looking on nonchalantly as 53 inmates many of them associated with one of Mexico's most n...

Mexican Drug Cartels Spread Their Tentacles Into 47 Nations

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...

Mexico Drug War: Government To Decriminalize Minor Drug Use

Los Angeles Times | Tracy Wilkinson | Posted 07.23.2009 | World


Reporting from Mexico City -- Could Mexican cities become Latin Amsterdams, flooded by drug users seeking penalty-free tokes and toots? That is the f...

Mexico Election: Drug War Plays Big Public Role For First Time

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...

Drug War: Mexico Military FInds One Of Country's Largest Meth Labs

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...

Mexico Cocaine Found Hidden In Sharks, Says Navy

BBC NEWS | Posted 07.18.2009 | World


map locator The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks....

Mexico Drug War: Drug Lawyer Who Was Tortured Seeks US Asylum

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...

Juan Manuel Jurado Zarzoza, Gulf Cartel Kingpin, Arrested At Cancun Resort

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...

Drug War: Mexican Police Standoff With Mexican Federal Agents

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...

Mexico Detains 10 Mayors For Alleged Drug Ties

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...

Raymundo Almanza Morales, Drug Suspect On Most-Wanted List, Captured In Mexico

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...

Tijuana: Body Found On Fire, Head Wrapped In Packing Tape

AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | World


TIJUANA, Mexico — Police found a body in flames dumped along a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of this violent northern border city, authorit...

US Police Will Train Mexican Drug Officials In Cartel Fight

USA Today | Posted 05.23.2009 | World


The U.S. and Mexico are drawing up plans to dispatch up to 300 former U.S. law enforcement officials to Mexico later this year to train thousands of M...

Obama, Calderon Pledge To Fight Drug War

AP | Posted 05.17.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are pledging to work together on challenges confronting both countrie...

Mexican Drug War: 10 Shocking Facts

GlobalPost | Posted 05.16.2009 | World


In anticipation of President Obama's trip south this week -- first to Mexico on Thursday and then to the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tob...

Alan Bersin To Be Named US 'Border Czar' To Watch Mexican Border

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 05.16.2009 | World


EL PASO, Texas — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano named a former federal prosecutor Wednesday to the new post of "border czar" to ov...

The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.07.2009 | World


Yvonne R. Davis

President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

Vicente Carrillo Leyva, Wanted Mexican Drug Suspect, Detained

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.03.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — An heir to one of Mexico's most notorious narcotics empires was grabbed by police as he exercised in a city park, officials announ...

Washington Post Launches Series On Mexico's Drug War

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...

Mexican Critics Accuse US Embassy Of Stealing A City Street

AP | Posted 04.24.2009 | World


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Mexico Crisis: White House Unveils Anti-Cartel Effort (VIDEO)

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 04.24.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to send more agents and equipment to the southwestern border to fight Mexican drug cartels and keep ...

Mexico Offers $2 Million For Top Drug Lords

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 04.23.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — Mexico's government on Monday offered up to $2 million each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a public...

Vicente Zambada, Mexico Cartel Leader, Captured

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 04.19.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — A purported top leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel was in police custody Thursday, as authorities extended a cross-border crac...