Nuevo León state police uncovered a total of 51 bodies from a clandestine narcofosa (“narco-grave”) in a garbage dump outside Monterrey—the biggest such find among numerous in recent months.
A new report from the General Accounting Office finds that only 9% of the $1.6 billion pledged by Washington to Mexico and Central America for drug enforcement has been delivered.
Mexican police foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in Latin America, arresting a cell operative in Tijuana, the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Seyassah reported.
Mexico’s once-hegemonic political machine, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), reaped gains in gubernatorial races, with voters disillusioned by escalating narco-violence.
Mexican singer Sergio “El Shaka” Vega was shot dead hours after he issued a statement denying reports of his murder. Vega was on his way to a concert when gunmen fired on his red Cadillac.
Gunmen shot and killed Jesús Manuel Lara, mayor of the Mexican border town of Guadalupe and an outspoken opponent of the drug cartels’ reign of terror, as his wife and child watched.
Mexican army troops and Quintana Roo state police discovered 12 bodies in four cenotes (natural wells) near the Cancún airport—presumed victims of Los Zetas.
More than 200 people have been killed over the past seven days in Mexico’s most violent week since President Felipe Calderón unleashed federal forces against the country’s warring drug cartels.
Violence in Mexico claimed the lives of 15 federal police officers and 29 prison inmates in three separate incidents in Michoacán, Culiacán and Ciudad Juárez.
Narco News quotes an alleged former CIA asset who says that a secret US Special Forces unit dubbed Task Force 7 has been operating in Ciudad Juárez for the past year.
Narco-violence claimed 39 lives in two northern Mexico states, as gunmen executed 19 at a Chihuahua rehab center and left 20 tortured bodies around Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas.
Mexican and US authorities are investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who was shot near the Juárez-El Paso crossing, apparently by a US Border Patrol agent.
