Tag Archives: Mexico

  • News

    Arizona mom freed from Mexican jail ‘screamed’ for joy

    “I’m home! Finally!” Yanira Maldonado exclaimed.

  • News Yanira Maldonado, Mom accused of smuggling drugs in Mexico

    Arizona mom’s Mexico drug arrest is ‘about money,’ husband says

    The family of an Arizona mother of seven being held in a Mexican jail vehemently denies charges that she was trying to smuggle about 12 pounds of marijuana into the states.

  • Politics President Obama in Mexico

    Domestic issues distract Obama on Mexico trip

    The United States remains committed to reducing the demand for drugs, he says

  • Politics Obama Mexico

    Key issues on Obama’s Mexico trip: Trade, immigration and drug war

    U.S. President Barack Obama heads south of the border Thursday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

  • News Gavel trial

    Mexican cartel queen pleads guilty in U.S. drug case

    She has been accused of drug trafficking but never convicted

  • News Cartel Violence

    13-year-old assassin murdered in Mexico

    A 13-year-old boy who had confessed to being an assassin for a Mexican drug cartel was among six people found murdered execution-style.

  • News handcuffs and jail

    Official: Arrests coming in tourist rapes

    Six women were among 14 people victimized by a group of hooded gunmen who burst into a beach bungalow.

  • News Alcapulco via Wiki Commons

    Gunmen rape 6 tourists near Acapulco, Mexico

    A pack of masked and hooded gunmen broke into a beach bungalow near Acapulco, Mexico, and raped six women tourists after tying up a group of men with them.

  • News 24297710[1]

    Pemex chief won’t speculate on cause of blast that killed 33, injured 100+

    A day after an explosion rocked its offices in Mexico City, Mexico’s state-run oil giant says it’s too early to speculate on the cause of the deadly blast.

  • News Via Wiki Commons

    14 dead, many injured in Mexico City office blast

    Workers were injured in an explosion at the administrative offices of Mexico’s state-run Pemex oil company in the country’s capital Thursday, state media reported.

  • News Drug Tunnel

    Drug smuggling tunnel uncovered near Mexio-California border

    Mexican authorities discovered a partially completed smuggling tunnel on Saturday in the Baja California border city of Mexicali.

  • News Skull discovered in Mexico (PHOTO: Cristina García / INAH)

    ‘Alien-like’ skulls found

    Skull shapes likely the result of an ancient practice in which adults deformed the skulls of children.