The ruling, which does not allow for the sale of the drug, is now under review by a higher court at the government’s request
President Jacob Zuma held up Mexico as an example of the reporting South African news organisations should strive for. But what does that mean?
Blog del Narco – blogdelnarco.com – has become a must-read for authorities, drug gangs.
Mexico says its navy has captured one of the country’s most wanted drug bosses – the head of the Gulf cartel, Jorge Costilla, alias "El Coss".
Enrique Pena Nieto, the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades, has won a resounding victory in the presidential election.
Mexico’s presidential race has entered a critical phase after candidates clashed in a debate and 90000 people protested against the frontrunner.
Mexico’s body count of innocents and gangsters rises as cartel feuds increase and spare no one.
Drug cartels kill thousands of police officers and civilians each year, but gun control remains lax.
Armed men killed at least 51 people in an attack on a casino in northern Mexico that left the building ablaze with gamblers trapped inside.
Tens of thousands of Mexicans on Sunday marched into the capital city to protest the wave of killing that has claimed 38 000 lives since 2006.
The number of murder victims unearthed in mass graves in northern Mexico this month has risen to 279.
