Mexico City - Mexican federal authorities used bulldozers to bring down more than 30 chapels devoted to "Saint Death" - a figure that is worshipped by drug traffickers - in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, the daily Reforma reported Wednesday.
Mexico City - Six people were found dead Thursday in the Mexican state of Michoacan, including three who had been cut up and placed in bags, state authorities confirmed.
The dead bodies of three men aged 20-30 were found dumped by a roadside in the outskirts of Michoacan capital Morelia, the state's Public Security Ministry said.
A message written on cardboard had been left by the bodies, with a warning to some "Fernando Hernandez, El Garras" and "those who do not want to cooperate."
Mexico City - Once a week, vans loaded with reams of material to be stitched into trousers and shirts for US retailers, drive through the muddy streets of the Los Reyes-La Paz neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mexico City.
The fabric is distributed to the area's many seamstresses, who have a week to each make about 50 trousers and shirts. For sewing all day for some of the biggest and most expensive department stores, these women earn about 4,000 pesos (283 dollars) a month.
Mexico City - Twelve people died and 14 others were injured in northern Mexico when the tourist bus they were travelling in crashed with a truck.
The Mexican daily Reforma reported Tuesday that there were 11 US citizens among those killed in the crash, which happened late Monday near the city of Saltillo, in the state of Coahuila. The bus driver, a Mexican, was also killed.
Mexico City - Nine people died early Wednesday in two clashes between security forces and alleged kidnappers in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the authorities confirmed.
One clash happened in the city of Celaya, while the other took place in the nearby Valle de Santiago. Police had initially said 10 people were killed.
Mexico City/Tijuana - A Mexican Army raid on a 15th birthday party in Tijuana on the US border netted a diverse group of suspects including an alleged drug boss, police, the governor's former bodyguards and even apparently innocent waiters.
In total, some 60 people were arrested Sunday, including Angel Jacome Gamboa, a former police officer from Playas de Rosarito who allegedly works for a rising drug boss.
Mexico City - Mexican federal authorities used bulldozers to bring down more than 30 chapels devoted to "Saint Death" - a figure that is worshipped by drug traffickers - in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, the daily Reforma reported Wednesday.
Mexico City - Six people were found dead Thursday in the Mexican state of Michoacan, including three who had been cut up and placed in bags, state authorities confirmed.
Mexico City - Once a week, vans loaded with reams of material to be stitched into trousers and shirts for US retailers, drive through the muddy streets of the Los Reyes-La Paz neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Mexico City - Twelve people died and 14 others were injured in northern Mexico when the tourist bus they were travelling in crashed with a truck.
Mexico City - Nine people died early Wednesday in two clashes between security forces and alleged kidnappers in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the authorities confirmed.
Mexico City/Tijuana - A Mexican Army raid on a 15th birthday party in Tijuana on the US border netted a diverse group of suspects including an alleged drug boss, police, the governor's former bodyguards and even apparently innocent waiters.
