A Mexican mayor accused officers from his own police force Wednesday of trying to kidnap him in a gang-ordered attack that left eight people dead, including a child and a pregnant woman.
A top aide to Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto says votes to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington state will force the Mexican government to rethink its efforts at trying to halt marijuana smuggling across t
The draconian prohibitionist policies in the US have contributed to record drug profits on the part of the cartels
When Mexican marines killed the leader of the Zetas earlier this month, they killed the only person capable of holding Mexico’s most dangerous cartel together.
A gangster lives a fast, dangerous life — especially Mexico's brutal narco-chieftains.
What we consider to be the "phony" war on terror is the gift that keeps on giving to those who run our governments.
It seemed such a triumphant moment in the drug war: the leader of the Zetas, one of the country’s biggest and most ruthless gangs, killed by the celebrated Mexican Marines in a fierce battle with guns and grenades. Then armed men snatched his body, r
Ciudad Juárez, right across the border from El Paso, Texas, was perhaps the most dangerous place in the world between 2008 and 2011 as a “cartel turf war" led to more than 10,000 murders.
Supreme Court rules to turn alleged human rights violations by the military over to civilian courts.
Mexican officials extradited the suspected drug trafficker known as the “Queen of the Pacific” to the United States on Thursday.
At least 32,000 protesters marched through Mexico City on Sunday to protest the “imposition” of the new president.
The Mexican government has been working with the United States Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/19/usda-partnerin
The newly-elected Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has started his term by announcing a number of reforms, such as opening the energy sector to private investments.
Two drug-smuggling tunnels outfitted with lighting and ventilation systems were discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest signs that cartels are building sophisticated passages to escape heightened surveillance on land. Both tunnels were
The shot was fired by a US Border Patrol agent, the ministry said. "The Mexican government has reiterated that the disproportionate use of lethal force in immigration control is unacceptable under any circumstances,"
Mexico's election officials on Wednesday recounted votes from more than half the polling booths in Sunday's presidential and congressional elections, responding to claims of fraud and requests for recounts in areas where the race was tight.
Mexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Enrique Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage. The second
For weeks the sky over Mexico City has kept its inhabitants guessing – one moment it has been azure and sunny; the next an ominous grey vault of clouds belly full with rain.
The reason, the NRA said in its literature, was that the administration wanted to boost statistics about guns flowing into Mexico to support a push for new laws to regulate American gun dealers.
Mexicans go to the polls July 1 to choose their next president, and polls show that voters seem inclined to embrace the past.
Plight of world's poor, some living near the G20 venue, not on agenda for global economic leaders.
As the body count climbs across Mexico, the drugs continue flowing across the border by the ton.
It was all caught on video: Five heavily armed policemen barge into a hotel in western Mexico before dawn and march out with three handcuffed men in underwear. But police weren't making an arrest; they were apparently taking orders from a drug gan
Mexico's drug war is thought to have killed 50,000 people in just six years, yet, surprisingly, the drug war is not dominating the debate in the upcoming July 1 election.
San Diego State graduate Kavon Iraniha, 27, spent the past year studying international law in Costa Rica. He was not allowed to board a flight home to San Diego this past Tuesday after being told he was on the U.S. government's "No Fly List."
Earlier this month, the Mexican government arrested three high-ranking Army generals "including a former second in command at the Defense Ministry.
Thousands of students march in Mexico City to denounce media coverage they feel favours candidate Enrique Pena Nieto.
One of the main suspects in the killings of 49 people in northern Mexico received orders from the top leaders of the Zetas cartel, a military official said Monday.
Some 14,000 people die each year from country´s air pollution.
Forty-nine mutilated bodies have been found dumped by a roadside near the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico.
