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21h ago
A Roman Catholic priest in Mexico says churchmen have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels whose turf wars have blooded the state of Guerrero ..read more
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1w ago
Authorities in one of Mexico’s largest cities say they have found seven bodies — five of them decapitated and another completely dismembered — in a car left in the middle of traffic on a main expressway ..read more
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3w ago
A Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico says he and three other bishops met with drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord in the violent southern state of Guerrero ..read more
Mexican police hit the beaches after killings in Acapulco, as cartels recruit youths on social media
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1M ago
Tourists have barely started trickling back into the Mexican resort of Acapulco, but the gangland killings on the beaches have already returned ..read more
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1M ago
Mexico is acknowledging that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of cartel violence or land disputes ..read more
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1M ago
A prominent journalist in western Mexico says he was abducted, beaten and questioned by an armed gang because of what he wrote ..read more
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1M ago
Authorities say a former jail officer in Phoenix has been sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling drugs into the detention facility where he worked ..read more
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1M ago
Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa ..read more
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1M ago
Mexico’s president is calling on citizens not to support drug cartels or oppose the installation of National Guard barracks, after a number of videos surfaced showing residents cheering convoys of cartel gunmen ..read more
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1M ago
Investigators in Mexico have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies ..read more