Mexico

Report slams U.S. effort to curb Mexico gun trade (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Mexican federal police present two suspected members of the Los Zetas drug cartel and weapons confiscated during their capture at a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City October 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mexican Federal Police/HandoutReuters - U.S. efforts to stop the “iron river” of guns headed south to Mexico’s drug war are being hampered by failures at the federal agency tasked with tracing and…

Incoming small town Mexico mayor kidnapped, killed (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Reuters - A mayor-elect from the Mexican state of Veracruz was kidnapped and killed along with two companions on Monday, local media reported.

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Mexico kills top drug lord at U.S. border (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

Reuters - Mexican marines killed drug baron Ezequiel “Tony Tormenta” Cardenas in a ferocious gunfight at the U.S. border on Friday, a fleeting victory for President Felipe Calderon that is…

Mass grave of drug war victims found in Mexico: report (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

Forensic workers stand next to the remains of a body after finding a mass grave in Tuncingo on the outskirts of Acapulco November 3, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Mexican authorities near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco discovered a hidden mass grave filled with what they believed to be victims of the country’s drug war, local…

U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

Reuters - U.S. border police have found a sophisticated smuggler’s tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico and believed to have been used by drug…

Witness: Attack at Mexico rehab center kills 13 (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Two soldiers watch 134 tonnes of marijuana burning on October 20, in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico. In the latest violence, thirteen retirees were shot and killed in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP.(AFP/File/Francisco Vega)AP - A client at a drug rehab center in the Mexican border city of Tijuana says a gang of armed men gunned down 13 recovering addicts there.


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Gunbattle in northern Mexico kills 3 bystanders (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Three bystanders died in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Mexico on Sunday.


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Mexico: 13 dead in massacre at Ciudad Juarez party (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Gunmen stormed two neighboring homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new…

Gunmen kill 13 in massacre at a party in Mexico (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Gunmen stormed two neighboring homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new…

Mexico: 12 dead in massacre at Ciudad Juarez party (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than…