Mexico’s Drug Traffickers Continue Trade in Prison
The surveillance cameras captured it all: guards looking on nonchalantly as 53 inmates — many of them associated with one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels — let themselves out of their cells...
View ArticleMexican purge axes corrupt police
Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests. It is the latest move by the Mexican government to clean...
View ArticleBlack gold — Mexico’s latest illicit product
First it was cocaine. Now Mexico’s drug kingpins are offering an even more addictive substance to their American customers: black gold. This isn’t slang for a new kind of narcotic. It’s what the name...
View ArticleGunmen shoot Mexico marine family in revenge killing
Gunmen have killed four relatives of an elite Mexican soldier who died during an operation targeting one of the country’s most-wanted drug lords. The mother, brother, sister and aunt of marine...
View ArticleAntonio Olague, Mexico Deputy Police Chief, Slain At Sons Elementary School
Mexican authorities said Thursday that gunmen killed a deputy police chief outside an elementary school as his wife, son and other students and parents looked on. Eduardo Ezparza, the spokesman for...
View ArticleCancun Mayor charged with drug trafficking, money laundering
The smooth-talking mayor of Cancun, Mexico’s top resort destination and world-famous party town, was arrested by federal police Wednesday on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and serving...
View ArticleThree dead in Mexico in drug cartel attack
At least three people, including two policemen, were killed in northern Mexico on Thursday when a car drove into two police vehicles in retaliation for the arrest of a drug cartel boss, the Security...
View ArticleMexico arrests man with 18 monkeys around his waist
Mexican authorities have arrested a man who was trying to smuggle 18 small monkeys into the country by carrying them in his clothing. Roberto Sol Cabrera, a Mexican citizen, was stopped at a random...
View ArticleTropical Storm Hermine crosses into Texas
Tropical Storm Hermine rolled into south Texas early Tuesday, bringing heavy rains and strong winds to an area battered by Hurricane Alex earlier this summer. Hermine made landfall in northeastern...
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