Mexico arrests high-profile vigilante leaderMexican forces arrested Jose Manuel Mireles, a senior leader of the powerful anti-crime vigilante group in the western state of Michoacan.
28 June 2014
Mexican police attacked in ambushOne policeman died and three were wounded in an ambush in a Mexican state along the US border that is ravaged by drug cartel violence, officials said.
27 June 2014
15 bodies found in northwest MexicoPolice in northwestern Mexico found 12 bullet-riddled bodies in a pickup truck Monday, as well as three men who had been shot dead in a separate case, authorities said.
10 June 2014
Drug cartel internal feud leaves 28 dead in MexicoAn internal power struggle within the once-powerful Gulf drug cartel has left 28 people dead in gunfights on Mexico's northeastern coast this week, authorities said.
Two days of gunfights leave 24 dead in Mexico's northThe death toll from two days of gunfights in Mexico's northern state of Tamaulipas rose to 24 on Monday after authorities reported six more slayings in the drug violence-plagued region.
Armed forces weigh return to notorious Rio favelasHundreds of security forces could be deployed again to a notorious maze of slums in northern Rio, home to a major 2010 police action, after the death of three officers.
11 March 2014
Mexico hunts for no.2 after netting cartel bossMexican authorities are hunting for the number two leader of the country's most powerful drug cartel after capturing the gang's kingpin this weekend.
24 February 2014
More bodies unearthed amid Mexico violenceMore than a dozen bodies were unearthed in a troubled region of southwestern Mexico where the military also engaged in a deadly firefight that killed one person.
12 February 2014
Mexican security forces capture cartel leaderMexican security forces arrested 38 people in the troubled region of Michoacan, including a leading figure of the notorious Knights Templar drug cartel.
20 January 2014
Mexico urges anti-cartel vigilantes to disarmMexico's government urged vigilantes on Monday to quit their growing armed struggle against a drug cartel and go home, saying federal forces will handle security in their embattled western towns.
Film spotlights pop culture inspired by Mexican drug gangsA new documentary shines a worrying and grisly light on a growing Latino pop culture phenomenon in the United States inspired by the deadly drug violence which has ravaged neighboring Mexico.
07 December 2013
FBI Director invited to KazakhstanProsecutor General of Kazakhstan Akshat Daulbayev invited Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey to Kazakhstan.
05 December 2013
Mexico finds 64 bodies in mass gravesA total of 64 bodies have been found in mass graves in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, authorities said Monday as they wrapped up a probe of alleged victims of a drug cartel.
03 December 2013
Eight family members killed in Mexico massacreMexican police found Sunday a family of eight, including three children, stabbed to death and tied down in their home in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez.
In Mexico, legend rises with dead drug lord sightings Three years after Mexican drug lord Nazario Moreno was declared dead, doubts abound about his demise, with stories of him indoctrinating recruits every Sunday and hosting a feast last year.