Mexico
Mexican security forces committed crimes against humanity: report
Mexican security forces have committed crimes against humanity, with mass disappearances and extrajudicial killings rife during the country’s decade-long...
Mexican authorities dig unmarked grave for more than 100 bodies
Mexican officials are continuing to exhume the remains of more than 100 unidentified people buried by authorities in a common grave in the central state...
Parents lead protest of probe into missing 43 students in Mexico
Thousands of protesters have marched in Mexico City, angered by the government’s handling of an investigation into 43 students who apparently were...
Mexico hampered probe into apparent student massacre, panel says
A panel of international experts has accused Mexico’s government of undermining their inquiry into the fate of 43 trainee teachers apparently massacred...
Pope urges 300,000 Mexicans to ‘shun the devil’s drug money’
Pope Francis has told Mexicans to “shun the devil” in a homily against those who traffick drugs.
Mexico mayor is shot dead in her home just one day after taking office
The mayor of a Mexican city has been shot dead less than a day after taking office.
Hunters close in on escaped tiger on the loose near Mexican holiday resort
Hunters are closing in a Bengal tiger which has been on the run near a Mexican holiday resort for a month.
Gulf coral damage from BP oil spill ‘worse than first thought’
Gulf coral damage from the massive BP oil spill is more extensive than previously thought, according to a new study that revealed sick and dying corals...
Gang member’s testimony casts further doubt on fate of 43 Mexico students
While Mexican prosecutors declared last year that 43 missing students were incinerated at a landfill, official documents published show that one gang suspect...
Parents of 43 missing students begin 43-hour hunger strike in Mexico
Parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared last year began a 43-hour hunger strike on Wednesday, a day before meeting with President Enrique Pena Nieto...
Nabbed in Mexico: police capture suspected drug trafficker in mystery massacre of 43 students
Federal authorities allegedly captured a high-ranking drug cartel member Gildardo Lopez Astudillo who has been implicated in last year’s disappearance...
Mexico charges four officials over drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s jailbreak
Four public officials have been charged for their suspected roles in the jailbreak of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the country’s...
Mexico charges four officials over drug lord’s jailbreak
Four public officials have been charged for their suspected roles in the jailbreak of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the country’s...
Mexico search for missing students turns up 129 bodies
The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last...
Mexican oil company Pemex finds biggest oil reserve for years
Mexican state energy giant Pemex announced its biggest exploration success in five years on Thursday - the discovery of new shallow water oil fields that...
Seventh candidate murdered in lead-up to elections in Mexico
Violence in the run-up to Mexico’s mid-term elections on 7 June has killed at least seven candidates and forced another 20 out of the race, battering...
Mexico: 43 dead in 3-hour firefight on ranch in west
At least 43 people died Friday in what authorities described as a fierce, three-hour gunbattle between federal forces and suspected drug gang gunmen on...
Halo goodbye? Ring around the sun leaves people fearing end of the world
Was it a UFO? A sign that the end is nigh? A rainbow-like halo surrounded the sun over Mexico City on Thursday, an optical phenomenon that triggered...
Mexican girl, 14, sent back from U.S. after DNA tests prove she is not Texan
A 14-year-old Mexican girl who was grabbed by police while at school and taken to the U.S.
Mexican drug cartels adapting to legalisation of marijuana in U.S.
The growing legalisation of cannabis in the United States is forcing Mexico’s drug cartels to rethink their illicit business model.
Mexican drug lords decry worms in prison food, dirty conjugal beds
Some of Mexico’s notorious criminals are complaining about “inhuman” conditions at a maximum-security prison, claiming they find worm...
Mexico’s ‘I’m tired now’ attorney general steps down
Mexico’s much-maligned attorney general, who has faced public anger over the investigation into the presumed slaughter of 43 students, stepped down...
Overloaded bus ‘split in half’ by fatal collision with freight train in Mexico
At least 16 people were killed and 30 were injured when a freight train slammed into a packed passenger bus in northeastern Mexico on Friday, authorities...
Three dead, dozens injured after explosion at Mexican children’s hospital
A powerful gas tank truck explosion shattered a maternity and children’s hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring...
Mexico to use drones to protect endangered porpoise
Mexico has begun testing unmanned drones that could help it save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise, which is...
Police unearth 11 headless corpses in troubled southern Mexico
At least 10 decapitated bodies and 11 heads have been discovered in unmarked graves in violence-plagued Guerrero state in southern Mexico, authorities...
Protest marks disappearance of Mexican students
A protest marking three months since 43 college students were abducted in southern Mexico has resulted in damages to a perimeter wall at an army base in...
Family demands justice after Mexican student’s body identified
The family of the first victim identified among 43 missing Mexican students lamented the dashed dreams of the aspiring teacher, calling for justice in...
Mexico president announces anti-crime crackdown
Mexico’s president announced a nationwide anti-crime plan Thursday that would allow Congress to dissolve local governments infiltrated by drug gangs...
Mexico’s embattled government poised to unveil law and order measures
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has been under pressure from protesters to end rampant impunity and brutality by security forces since the 43 students...
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