01/07/2021 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Disappearances rise on Mexico’s ¨highway of death¨ to border
Mexico City — As many as 50 people are missing after setting out on three-hour car trips this year between Mexico’s industrial hub of Monterrey and the border city of Nuevo Laredo on a well-traveled stretch of road local media have dubbed “the highway of death.”
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15/06/2021 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexican president to make National Guard part of army
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Tuesday he plans to make the National Guard part of the army, erasing the thin pretense of a civilian-controlled force that was used to gain approval for its creation two years ago.
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31/05/2021 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes
MEXICO CITY — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
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03/09/2019 | Frente Externo
Mexico - Mexicos Teflon presidency starting to show wear
MEXICO CITY Mexicos drug war has burst into flames again, the economy is flat, the health care system is creaking and President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador facing the wrath of U.S. President Donald Trump has cracked down on Central American migrants harder than ever.
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17/08/2019 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Violence: Vigilantes, mob justice grow as violence mounts in Mexico
MEXICO CITY Vigilante attacks and mob justice appeared to be on the rise in Mexico this week as violence mounted, more than two dozen bodies appeared along roadsides and the government ruled out any new crackdown on criminal gangs.
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05/09/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexican President Blames State, Local Police for Crime Surge
MEXICO CITY In his final state of the union address Monday, outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto blamed surging violent crime in Mexico on the inability of state and local police to handle the smaller gangs that emerged following the capture of cartel leaders.
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23/06/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mxico: Por cada de precio, cambian amapola por marihuana
TENANTLA, MXICO- Los productores de goma de opio del sur de Mxico cuya actividad ayud a alimentar la epidemia de consumo de herona en Estados Unidos, dicen que los precios de su producto ha cado tanto _al parecer por la popularidad de opioides sintticos como el fentanilo_ que han decidido regresar a un cultivo que conocen muy bien: la marihuana.
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21/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Drug War: 4th high-ranking Mexican army officer detained
Mexico's army announced Friday that it had detained a fourth high-ranking officer during a civilian investigation into alleged military links to drug cartels. Three generals were previously detained.
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26/04/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexico forest faces fire, armed men, squatters
Mexico's largest big-city forest park has been devastated by a fire that officials say was set by squatters seeking to take over land and worsened by the presence of armed gangs trying to scare off firefighters.
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27/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico rejects video call to exterminate cartel
The Mexican government said it is investigating videos posted on the Internet in which a gang of masked men vow to exterminate the violent Zetas drug cartel, and said it opposes such vigilante methods.
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29/03/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexicos media agree to voluntary censorship
Most of Mexico's largest news media outlets have agreed to a set of drug-war reporting guidelines, promising not to glorify drug traffickers, publish cartel propaganda messages or reveal information that could endanger police operations.
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25/03/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican media sets drug war coverage guidelines
Most of Mexico's largest news media outlets agreed to a set of drug-war reporting guidelines Thursday, promising not to glorify drug traffickers, publish cartel propaganda messages or reveal information that could endanger police operations.
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14/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - drug capos now surrendering without fight
Mexico's capture of two rival drug gang leaders in two weeks may mark a new trend in the country's drug war, an official said Monday: drug lords surrendering without a fight when surrounded.
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13/09/2010 | Frente Externo
On 200th birthday, Mexico battered but not broken
The movie that Mexican director Luis Estrada is putting out for his country's bicentennial is bluntly named "Hell."
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11/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Leaked documents suggest Mexico drug corruption
The reported discovery in cartel hands of a sheaf of police documents containing agents' names and contact numbers, along with apparent references to shared U.S. intelligence data, has renewed fears of high-level corruption in Mexico's war on drugs.
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28/04/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Senate - Army abuse cases in civilian courts
The Mexican Senate passed a measure Tuesday to make soldiers accountable to civilian courts for abuses involving civilians, and ensure the use of troops in actions like the offensive against drug cartels is temporary.
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09/04/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Police take over from army in Mexico border city
Mexican army troops were pulled off Ciudad Juarez's streets Thursday and replaced by thousands of federal police officers who will take over the fight against drug-related violence that claimed over 2,600 lives last year in this border city.
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13/11/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico border city groups call for UN peacekeepers
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
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13/11/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico border city groups call for UN peacekeepers
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
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18/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico cartels go from drugs to full-scale mafias
Shopkeepers in this pine-covered mountain region easily recite the list of "protection" fees they pay to La Familia drug cartel to stay in business: 100 pesos a month for a stall in a street market, 30,000 pesos for an auto dealership or construction-supply firm.
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16/07/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico says NO to deal with cartels
The Mexican government is vowing never to cut deals with drug traffickers after a man claiming to be the leader of a violent cartel called a television station to suggest a pact.
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16/07/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico says NO to deal with cartels
The Mexican government is vowing never to cut deals with drug traffickers after a man claiming to be the leader of a violent cartel called a television station to suggest a pact.
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15/03/2007 | Frente Externo
Mexican Billionaire Mocks Gates, Buffett
The world's third-richest man, Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, poked gentle fun at the philanthropy of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and said businessmen can do more good by building solid companies than by "going around like Santa Claus" donating money.
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08/12/2006 | Sociedad
Maya Indians wary of `Apocalypto'
Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
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08/12/2006 | Sociedad
Maya Indians wary of `Apocalypto'
Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
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