11/06/2012 | Frente Externo
Mexico - Election: Mexico voters undecided on choice for president, pollsters say
As many as 25% of Mexicans have not decided on a candidate in the presidential vote. But among undecided voters, Enrique Peña Nieto of the PRI still leads.
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13/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico drug lord's fate is focus of election year speculation
The capture or death of Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman, the No. 1 drug fugitive, could shift the tone of Mexico's presidential campaign before the July 1 vote.
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13/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico drug lord's fate is focus of election year speculation
The capture or death of Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman, the No. 1 drug fugitive, could shift the tone of Mexico's presidential campaign before the July 1 vote.
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05/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Drug allegations may hamper former Mexico ruling party's return
The PRI candidate for president is the front-runner. But allegations of drug payoffs involving a former PRI governor could remind voters of the party's past.
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05/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Drug allegations may hamper former Mexico ruling party's return
The PRI candidate for president is the front-runner. But allegations of drug payoffs involving a former PRI governor could remind voters of the party's past.
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23/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Mexico : Calderon urges drug-using nations to seek a new path
Was Mexican President Felipe Calderon suggesting it’s time to legalize it?
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21/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican Drug War - Mexico says a top criminal gang figure has been captured
The army and federal attorney general's office said Saul Solis Solis was arrested a day earlier in the western state of Michoacan. He is said to have played a key role with the Knights Templar gang.
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13/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Guatemala president election heads to runoff; Perez Molina leads
Former Gen. Otto Perez Molina, who holds a double-digit lead, is expected to face lawmaker Manuel Baldizon on Nov. 6. Both promise to get tough on crime.
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06/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bravery may not be enough to bring justice to Mexico
Marisela Morales, Mexico's first female attorney general, is tough, but some fear she won't be able to overcome an 'enormous bureaucracy that is not working.'
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06/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bravery may not be enough to bring justice to Mexico
Marisela Morales, Mexico's first female attorney general, is tough, but some fear she won't be able to overcome an 'enormous bureaucracy that is not working.'
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14/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico military says drug lord's successor arrested
Martin Beltran Coronel, a nephew of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ignacio Coronel, is captured outside Guadalajara, in the same suburb where his uncle was slain in July.
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14/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico military says drug lord's successor arrested
Martin Beltran Coronel, a nephew of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ignacio Coronel, is captured outside Guadalajara, in the same suburb where his uncle was slain in July.
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14/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Death toll in mass graves in Mexico reaches 116
As authorities unearth 28 more bodies in Tamaulipas state while investigating bus kidnappings, the federal government sends in more troops to monitor highways. Officials have arrested 17 people in the case.
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28/03/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico City an unlikely draw for those fleeing drug war violence
Traffickers are aware of the risks of major provocations in Mexico City, home to the federal police, army, navy and intelligence services, not to mention many of the cartel leaders' families.
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25/03/2011 | Frente Externo
Mexico news companies agree to drug war coverage guidelines
The 10-point accord, covering more than 700 outlets across Mexico, calls on news-gathering organizations to find ways to protect their journalists and to avoid glorifying crime bosses.
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21/03/2011 | Frente Externo
U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigns
Ambassador Carlos Pascual's remarks in leaked cables about Mexico's drug war had angered President Felipe Calderon.
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08/02/2011 | Frente Externo
Strange bedfellows in Mexico's election season
A conservative party wins a governorship with a candidate who defected from the main leftist group. All are vying against the centrist former ruling PRI party, which hopes to regain the presidency.
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02/02/2011 | Frente Externo
Mexico's main leftist party keeps Guerrero governorship
The PRD candidate appears to have won in the violence-plagued southern state after a bitter campaign, beating the once-dominant PRI, which hopes to retake the presidency next year.
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25/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hillary Clinton praises Mexico for its battle against drug cartels
The secretary of State says President Felipe Calderon has been 'courageous' and she vows continued U.S. support.
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19/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico says Zetas drug gang figure arrested
Flavio Mendez Santiago allegedly was in charge of smuggling drugs and migrants in the south.
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17/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Amid drug violence, Acapulco watches tourism recede
Although officials insist tourism remains robust in Acapulco, merchants say months of carnage have scared away visitors. The rising death toll has prompted many Mexicans to skip the resort.
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21/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican bill on civilian trials for soldiers seen as falling short
It would require civilian trials for soldiers charged with torture, rape and forced disappearances. Rights groups say the bill should also cover unlawful detention and extrajudicial killings.
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17/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The case of the 20 missing Mexican tourists doesn't add up
Relatives insist they are ordinary guys. The government focuses on their unusual travel arrangements. Police have little to offer, and Acapulco expresses skepticism about what the travelers were up to.
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14/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico arrests key suspect in Beltran Leyva cartel
The capture of Sergio Villarreal Barragan, one of the four most-wanted suspects in the Beltran Leyva gang, is another blow to the cartel, weakened by a security crackdown and infighting.
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02/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's capture of accused drug lord may yield inside cartel information
'He might sing like a canary,' one analyst says the day after the capture of the Texas-born figure known as La Barbie.
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02/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's crackdown on organized crime is working, Calderon says
In his state of the nation report, President Felipe Calderon notes the arrests or killings of drug kingpins and efforts to clean up police. He also touts job gains and other economic improvements.
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02/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's capture of accused drug lord may yield inside cartel information
'He might sing like a canary,' one analyst says the day after the capture of the Texas-born figure known as La Barbie.
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02/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's crackdown on organized crime is working, Calderon says
In his state of the nation report, President Felipe Calderon notes the arrests or killings of drug kingpins and efforts to clean up police. He also touts job gains and other economic improvements.
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31/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico fires 3,200 federal police officers
Hundreds of others face charges or disciplinary action as the government attempts to modernize the force and eliminate corruption, part of its war against drug cartels.
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31/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico fires 3,200 federal police officers
Hundreds of others face charges or disciplinary action as the government attempts to modernize the force and eliminate corruption, part of its war against drug cartels.
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13/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico takes different tack on Juarez violence
A shift from military to police control is part of a broadened strategy aimed at curbing violence that has killed more than 5,000 people in Ciudad Juarez since 2008. So far, the results are mixed.
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07/07/2010 | Frente Externo
Mexican voters send mixed messages
The PRI is on track to lose its hold on three governorships but win three new ones. Meanwhile, PAN-led alliances pull off upsets in Oaxaca, Puebla and Sinaloa.
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03/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Suspect held in U.S. consulate worker's killing in Ciudad Juarez
Police say Jesus Ernesto Chavez told them that Lesley A. Enriquez, 35, was shot to death in Ciudad Juarez because his gang thought she was providing visas to rivals.
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01/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Calderon calls on Mexicans to unite against criminal gangs
After the slaying of a gubernatorial candidate, Mexico's president urges citizens to fight 'a common enemy that today threatens to destroy not only our tranquility but our democratic institutions.'
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03/05/2010 | Frente Externo
Tensions rise over Haiti tent camps
Three months after the earthquake, schools and businesses want their land back.
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24/03/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico military faces political risks over drug war
As the death toll keeps climbing in Calderon's crackdown on the drug trade, there is a growing feeling that the army has been less than effective as a police force.
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02/03/2010 | Medio Ambiente
Haiti confronts a monumental disposal problem
More than a month after the Jan. 12 earthquake that leveled most of Port-au-Prince, the huge task of clearing the rubble remains.
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05/02/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico massacre response fails to convince
Officials' suggestions that youths slain at Ciudad Juarez teen party had drug ties anger relatives.
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02/02/2010 | Frente Externo
Mexico's PAN and PRD: Love letters in the making?
The rival political parties are considering a marriage of convenience this year to thwart an elections sweep by the PRI.
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01/02/2010 | Frente Externo
As Mexican teens celebrate school soccer win, gunmen open fire
Fourteen people are killed in Ciudad Juarez during a party in a private home, the latest victims of the drug war. More than 3,700 people have been slain in two years in this violent area of Mexico.
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03/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Witness in Mexico protection program killed
Edgar Enrique Bayardo, a former federal police commander, is shot to death in a Mexico City coffee shop. His is the second recent death of a high-profile informant sharing details on drug cartels.
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03/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Witness in Mexico protection program killed
Edgar Enrique Bayardo, a former federal police commander, is shot to death in a Mexico City coffee shop. His is the second recent death of a high-profile informant sharing details on drug cartels.
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23/11/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico tries to shape up cops
The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico's top cop was supposed to help clean up the country's long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of its members themselves didn't pass, and a supervisor was rigging results to make sure others did.
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23/11/2009 | Frente Externo
Cuba rights abuses continue, report says
Civil liberties in Cuba remain severely curtailed, despite hope among activists that Raul Castro would end Cold War-era limits on dissent and the media, a Human Rights Watch report says.
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23/11/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico tries to shape up cops
The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico's top cop was supposed to help clean up the country's long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of its members themselves didn't pass, and a supervisor was rigging results to make sure others did.
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23/11/2009 | Frente Externo
Cuba rights abuses continue, report says
Civil liberties in Cuba remain severely curtailed, despite hope among activists that Raul Castro would end Cold War-era limits on dissent and the media, a Human Rights Watch report says.
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18/10/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Mexico, gruesome slayings add to Guerrero's toll
The mutilated corpses of nine people were found in plastic bags in the bed of a pickup the southern Mexico state of Guerrero, authorities say. The area is known for its drug trafficking.
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14/10/2009 | Economia y Finanzas
Mexico electrical workers fight disbanding of utility
Union threatens legal action to save jobs lost with Calderon's order to dissolve Luz y Fuerza del Centro, which supplies electricity to Mexico City and several neighboring states.
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13/09/2009 | Sociedad
Not being on time a high art in Mexico
Punctuality isn't dear to many Mexicans. 'It's not personal,' one commentator says, speaking of the phenomenon of perpetual lateness. She herself came late to an interview -- in her own living room.
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30/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Prominent defense lawyer is stabbed to death
Americo Delgado had represented major drug figures, including Tijuana crime boss Benjamin Arellano Felix. Police have not identified a motive.Americo Delgado was ambushed Friday evening by at least three men in the city of Toluca, an hour or so outside Mexico City, police said.
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10/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
México - In Ciudad Juarez, young women are vanishing
Amid the drug war's bloodshed, the Mexican border city has been shaken by the disappearances of at least two dozen teenage girls and young women. Officials have few leads.
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10/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
México - In Ciudad Juarez, young women are vanishing
Amid the drug war's bloodshed, the Mexican border city has been shaken by the disappearances of at least two dozen teenage girls and young women. Officials have few leads.
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22/03/2009 | En Profundidad
Mexico - Abuse allegations rise against Mexican army
Since President Calderon's deployment of troops in the war against drug trafficking, allegations of illegal searches and arrests, rape and torture have risen, rights groups say.
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19/03/2009 | Economia y Finanzas
Mexico levies higher tariffs on U.S. imports
The move, part of a cross-border trucking dispute, affects $2.4 billion worth of exports from 40 U.S. states.
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19/03/2009 | Economia y Finanzas
Mexico levies higher tariffs on U.S. imports
The move, part of a cross-border trucking dispute, affects $2.4 billion worth of exports from 40 U.S. states.
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08/02/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In a Mexico state, openness is the new order in the courts
Closed-door, written trials give way to U.S.-style proceedings in Chihuahua. The overhaul could help fight corruption and organized crime, analysts say.
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