The body of Anabel Flores Salazar, a crime reporter abducted from her home in Mexico's Veracruz state, was found the following day in the neighboring state of Puebla.
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco, a leading activist in Mexico's violence-torn Guerrero state and a vocal advocate for the families of the 43 missing students, was himself assassinated.
Mexican authorities detained 13 police officers in the state of Veracruz in connection with the abduction of a journalist who aggressively covered local narco-corruption.
Mexican authorities unearthed five recently buried bodies from a clandestine grave in a rural pueblo of Sinaloa state—the latest in a long string of such gruesome finds.
Michoacán's blood-drenched Knights Templar cartel have amassed a land empire in the Mexican state, using the avocado industry to launder narco profits.
Mexican naval forces announced the arrest of Iván Velázquez, AKA “El Taliban”—said to be a top commander of Los Zetas who had recently defected to the rival Gulf Cartel.
