Daniel Elizondo, a leader of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico, was arrested in connection to the killings of 49 people whose decapitated and dismembered corpses were found dumped next to a highway last week.... Read more»
Investors and financial analysts have their eyes on a bankruptcy case, pending in a Dallas courtroom, that they say could systematically shift how American firms do business with Mexican companies.... Read more»
Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found in black plastic bags near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey, apparently killed by the Zetas drug cartel.... Read more»
While touting Guadalajara as Mexico’s Silicon Valley, President Felipe Calderón fielded questions on whether the city he’s trying to attract investors to is safe from the drug violence that has plagued the country.... Read more»
The bodies of a man and woman were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, a border town in Mexico. Signs by the bodies said that the two had denounced a cartel on Twitter.... Read more»
In the midst of so much bloodshed and intimidation in Mexico, the public normally cheers when police seize some of the supposed culprits behind it all. But the arrest of two alleged terrorists in Veracruz state has caused more dismay, puzzlement and anger than rejoicing.... Read more»
As Mexico struggles with an unprecedented wave of drug-related violence, criminal cartels have been expanding protection rackets across the country.... Read more»
Monterrey has endured a series of massacres and assasinations this year. The latest attack on the popular Casino Royale on Thursday was particularly shocking, as most of the victims appeared not to be linked to any drug cartels.... Read more»1
The gruesome find of a woman’s severed head on the hood of an abandoned truck containing 10 decapitated corpses in Mexico caps a weekend of drug cartel violence, reportedly slaying more than 40 people.... Read more»
Gunmen killed at least 22 people in a string of attacks in Mexico this weekend as the FIFA tournament opened.... Read more»1
Children of U.S. government employees must leave Monterrey, Mexico, the State Department said Friday as it extended its warning of travel dangers in that country.... Read more»
The U.S. State Department has renewed its warning for Americans to avoid unnecessary travel to northern Mexico. The state of Sonora is not in the list of areas to avoid travel but Nogales, Son., is mentioned as a city where firefights have broken out.... Read more»2
As the waters unleashed by Hurricane Alex and Tropical Storm Bonnie finally receded this week, Mexican officials have begun to measure the scale of the damage. The destruction, they concluded, will set the local economy back by years.... Read more»
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