Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón has been advising the US on how to fight the influence of leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, according to a secret US embassy cable.
The US government hopes to develop a closer relationship with the Mexican military as a result of Mexico’s “war on drugs” and international humanitarian operations, according to US diplomatic cables.
Some 15,000 protesters blocked access to the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City to demand smaller allocations for the security forces in the budget and more for social development.
Mexican authorities fear retaliatory violence after the killing of Gulf Cartel kingpin Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén AKA “Tony Tormenta” in a three-hour shootout with soldiers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, on Nov. 5. Three cartel gunmen, two members of the security forces… Read moreMexico: retaliation feared after slaying of Gulf Cartel kingpin
The Mexican government announced that it had put two federal police agents “at the disposal” of officials investigating the shooting of a college student near a university campus in Ciudad Juárez.
Police in the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Villahermosa rescued at least 23 Honduran undocumented immigrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom after crossing from Guatemala.
In Mexico’s third mass shooting in less than a week, gunmen opened fire at a carwash in Tepic, capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, killing at least 15—including 13 workers and two bystanders.
Two unidentified men shot and killed Catarino Torres Pereda, general secretary of the Citizen Defense Committee (Codeci), at the group’s office in Tuxtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca.
At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juárez—the second such massacre in less than a week in the violence-torn border city.
The severed head of Rolando Flores, a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of Texas reporter David Hartley, was delivered to authorities in northern Mexico’s Tamaulipas state.
In the village of Ascensión, in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, some 300 residents beat to death two 17-year-old boys who reportedly had kidnapped a 17-year-old girl.
Ciudad Juárez police destroyed a house that had been occupied for 40 years by a family at Lomas de Poleo, a community built on contested lands on the outskirts of the border city.
