Mexico has admitted it had mistakenly claimed to have captured a son of Mexico’s most wanted drug lord which it had hailed as a major victory.
Drug-related killings have overshadowed the fact that Mexico’s economy is alive and well, writes Kevin Davie.
Mexico’s body count of innocents and gangsters rises as cartel feuds increase and spare no one.
Craig Joubert has loved trotting the globe to share expertise in matches from Mexico to Pietermaritzburg.
<em>The New York Times</em> has revealed that Wal-Mart covered up findings of an internal probe that proved its Mexican subsidiary bribed officials.
The dismembered remains of 14 men have been found in a Mexican city on the US border that is often a flashpoint for the country’s drug war.
Pope Benedict arrived in Mexico this weekend promising to "unmask the evil" of drug trafficking in a country ravaged by gang violence.
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/ 22 December 2011
Reporters without Borders claims 66 journalists have killed this year — many of them covering Arab revolutions or political turmoil in Pakistan.
Drug cartels kill thousands of police officers and civilians each year, but gun control remains lax.
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/ 11 December 2011
An earthquake measuring 6.5 has struck Mexico and officials have reported two deaths so far, including an 11-year-old boy.
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/ 21 September 2011
The bodies of 35 people with suspected links to organised crime were dumped on a road in eastern Mexico on Tuesday.
President Calderon has demanded a crackdown on drugs in the US after cartel "terrorists" torched an upmarket casino in Mexico, killing 52 people.
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.
Mexico’s drug cartels are pioneers of the global economy in their logic and modus operandi, writes <b>Ed Vulliamy</b>.
The US border is just the final challenge; first groups have to dodge gangs of kidnappers.
Mexican police captured the suspected leader of a cult-like drug cartel on Tuesday in the latest blow to a gang that was one of the most notorious.
Mexico’s IMF candidate says his battle with France’s Christine Lagarde is not over yet, but has chastised Europe for not making it a fair fight.
Three Mexican journalists facing death threats urged the US government on Wednesday to speed up approval of their asylum petitions.
France’s Christine Lagarde faces solid competition from Mexican and Israeli contenders as the IMF board begins deciding on a new leader.
Guatemala declared a 30-day state of emergency for the northern Peten region following a brutal weekend massacre of 27 people at a cattle ranch.
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.
Doctors are being forced to abandon patients and flee Mexico’s most deadly city of Ciudad Juárez in response to extortion, kidnappings and murder.
Fourteen miners were trapped and at least one was hurt after a gas explosion shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, authorities said on Tuesday.
The number of murder victims unearthed in mass graves in northern Mexico this month has risen to 279.
Authorities have pulled 37 severely decomposed bodies from a mass grave in northern Mexico, a local official said on Thursday.
Mexico’s top public safety official in Tamaulipas state resigned after mass graves were found in the state with remains of at least 145 people.
Families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country’s northern border in search of victims of the killings.
At least 11 bodies were found in five new mass graves located in Sinaloa state in north-western Mexico, state prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Mexican drug gangs branching out into new criminal activity are earning a steady stream of cash from the mass kidnapping of migrants.
Thousands of Mexicans protested the country’s raging drug war on Wednesday as dozens of bodies were found in graves near the border with the US.
Mexico’s battle with its powerful drug cartels has seen almost 35 000 deaths, as well as the disappearances of an unknown number of others.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón will press President Barack Obama to crack down on US drug consumption when they meet on Thursday.