By DAVID LUHNOW And JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA Wall Street Journal Three days of raging gun battles this week between rival drug gangs in Michoacán state killed an unknown number of people, forced hundreds to flee their homes and raised fresh fears that...

A brave pre-school teacher calmed her young students fears by creating a sing along while five men were executed in a shoot out near the school. According to El Norte, five men were executed by a group of armed men traveling in several pick ups. The...

Reports that Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman lived in Argentina until March 2011 have sparked new speculation about the fugitive capo’s whereabouts. Written by Patrick Corcoran In Sight Quoting an anonymous source in the...

Mexico’s Justice Department has opened an investigation into a Sunday night grenade attack on the Vanguardia newspaper, in the northern city of Saltillo. The explosion did not cause any injuries, but damaged the newspaper’s building and some...

Cafe Iguana When gang members opened fire on the Café Iguana in downtown Monterrey last Sunday night, a squad of eight policemen rushed to the scene. The police arrived to find four people dead and five wounded. Just as they began surveying the...

Last Sunday in the afternoon at around 1700 hours the State and municipal Police were dispatched to La Pasadita in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, on a report that a few feet from the river Papaloapan were the remains of two men that appeared to be executed. When...

CUCUTA, COLOMBIA In the pink light of dawn, William Yacia Pineda views the black-market commerce at this busy crossing on Colombia’s border with Venezuela. Anything is possible. “One day, it’s gasoline, the next day cocaine,”...

Officers from the Department of Traffic of Juárez will be able to carry weapons for their safety as a result of deadly attacks carried out by gunmen against two officers Tuesday afternoon, Juárez officials said.

Marcela Lagarde, a Mexican academic who is considered one of Latin America’s leading feminist activists, said in an interview with Efe that the war on drugs being waged by President Felipe Calderon has led to more violence against women in Mexico.

Some 800 police backed by army troops laid siege to more than 20 city blocks in this northern Mexican metropolis to carry out raids that netted more than 200 tons of smuggled and pirated merchandise, authorities said.