US agents in El Paso deported Gulf Cartel kingpin José Manuel Garza Rendón back to Mexico across the international bridge with Ciudad Juárez. He already served a nine-year term in a US federal prison.
For the third time in less than a week, an industrial fire scarred the skies of Ciudad Juárez, raising fears of toxic pollution across the borderlands.
Officials backed up by Mexican federal troops are destroying roadside shrines in Nuevo Laredo to “Santa Muerte,” patron saint of drug traffickers—drawing protests from the faithful.
Eleven people were found shot to death around Mexico’s conflicted southwest, some bearing signs of torture and left with threatening “narco-messages.”
Meeting with Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and other Obama administration officials in Cuernavaca, Mexican leaders pledged a new era of bilateral cooperation against the drug cartels.
The Mexican Senate passed an amendment to the country’s constitution that would permit seizure of property from suspected drug traffickers and other criminals prior to conviction.
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, contradicting a recent Pentagon report, told reporters in Washington: “Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state.”
The US Border Patrol intends to employ a chemical herbicide to eradicate Carrizo cane, an invasive plant that provides convenient cover for undocumented border crossers and smugglers.
About 25,000 members of the indigenous Movement of Triqui Unification and Struggle (MULT) marched in Oaxaca City to demand that the government open talks on rights violations in the state.
Mexico’s Finance Secretariat ruled that due to the crisis, exceptions can be made to a law banning foreign governments from owning Mexican banks—a reference to Citibank-owned Banamex.
The US Justice Department filed lawsuits against Union Pacific Railroad Co. March 18 seeking $37 million in damages for allegedly failing to prevent its rail cars from being used to smuggle drugs into the country. US customs inspectors on at… Read moreNarco-imbroglio mires NAFTA trade
In a boost for President Felipe Calderón’s military strategy against Mexico’s warring narco gangs, soldiers arrested two top cartel leaders—including one accused of attacking a US consulate.
