In a new escalation of the factional narco-violence in northern Mexico, nine bodies—some bearing signs of torture—were hanged from an overpass in Nuevo Laredo, and 14 severed heads left in ice coolers outside city hall.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that will recognize, protect and provide aid to victims of crimes stemming from the gang-related drug wars that have engulfed the country for nearly the last six years.
The New York Times revealed that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. covered up a $24 million bribery scandal in 2005 in its Mexican branch, the largest private employer in the country.
After dodging prison terms for murdering campesinos and protecting drug lords, US-trained Gen. Acosta Chaparro is gunned down by an unknown assailant at a Mexico City auto shop.
Eight indigenous Purépecha were shot dead near the autonomous community of Cherán in Michoacán, the center of a year-long struggle to protect local forests from illegal loggers.
After 15 days on hunger strike, Antonia LĂłpez Cruz sewed her lips together and had herself tied to the fence outside the Mexican Senate building to demand the return of her six-year-old daughter.
Since NAFTA took effect in 1994, Mexico’s struggle with obesity and its related life-threatening problems—diabetes, stroke, heart disease—has become “Americanized,” a new study reports.
JosĂ© Antonio Acosta Hernández AKA “El Diego,” purported leader of La Linea criminal organization, was sentenced to 10 life terms in El Paso after pleading guilty to the slayings of three people tied to the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission strongly condemned state and federal officials and police agents for their actions in an incident in the state of Guerrero that left three people dead.
Mexico’s President Felipe CalderĂłn, constitutionally barred from re-election, will meet with Obama in the White House this week for his final NAFTA summit—with his country’s bloody cartel wars topping the security agenda.
Transgender activist Agnes Torres Sulca and anti-mining activist Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez are the latest victims of a wave of violence that seems to target grassroots political organizers.
Tens of thousands of Mexican teachers in several states went on strike or took to the streets March 14-16 in three days of “Action in Defense of Education.”
