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Mexico City  - Five police officers were killed in a grenade attack in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, near state capital Guadalajara, local authorities said Thursday.

The attack was allegedly perpetrated by hired killers around 11:30 pm Wednesday (0530 GMT Thursday) at a petrol station on the road linking Guadalajara to Lagos de Moreno.

The state's Public Security Minister, Luis Carlos Najera, confirmed the deaths and said nine out of 10 grenades launched exploded.

Mexico City - Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard launched Thursday the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre by setting the Mexican flag at half-mast on the site of the violent repression of students in 1968.

During the ceremony at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas square in the Tlatelolco neighbourhood of Mexico City, people demanded that the truth about the events of October 
2, 1968 - when scores of people died in the repression of demonstrators by police and Army forces - be revealed.

Mexico City - Mexican multi-billionaire Carlos Slim thinks Latin America "is going to become important for the economy of the United States," in light of the current economic and financial crisis in the affluent neighbour to the north.

Slim - ranked by Forbes magazine in March as the world's second- richest man, worth an estimated 60 billion dollars behind investor Warren Buffett - addressed representatives of foreign media late Tuesday in Mexico City.

He noted that Latin America as a region has 550 million consumers, so it can be "part of the solution" for the United States.

Mexico City  - Eight dead bodies were found Tuesday alongside messages from drug gangs in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana, where 16 dead bodies were found a day earlier.

Six of the bodies found Tuesday in the city along the US border were inside barrels with sulphuric acid in the city centre, while the two others were found in the suburbs.

The public prosecutor's office in the state of Baja California said the barrels included a message.