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

Nowhere is safe for activists and reporters, least of all Veracruz state under Javier Duarte.

Families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country’s northern border in search of victims of the killings.

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.