Organized crime has left 38 people killed in Mexico despite a promise by the newly-inaugurated president to reduce violence. Mexican police announced on Tuesday that 22 bodies were found in the capital of Mexico City over the weekend and at least 16 bodies in the region of Toluca. Many of the bodies in Toluca were dismembered and signs of torture were visible and some of them had notes beside them... 

Mexican police hit by Molotov cocktails thrown by protesters showing their opposition to President Enrique Pena Nieto on December 1, 2012. As Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is worn in, thousands protest across the country, clashing with police and injuring at least five officers. Protesters on Saturday threw Molotov cocktails and objects towards police officers, who were standing outside the... 

Arrested members of Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel are presented to the press. The brutal Zetas drug cartel now has full control over Mexico’s northeastern province of Coahuila, and dominates all aspects of local criminal businesses. The Zetas has taken advantage of rampant political corruption, an intimidated and silent public as well as a complicit and profiting segment of the business elite to aggressively... 

Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law a ban on large cash transactions. The ban will take effect in about 90 days and it is part of a broader effort to control monetary flows within the country. Under the law, a Specialized Unit in Financial Analysis operating within the Attorney General’s Office will be created to investigate financial operations “that are related... 

Human rights activists hang a banner on a US Embassy fence after placing a plastic tank in front of the building, demanding an arms trade treaty to control weapons’ commerce between Mexico and the United States, Mexico City, Tuesday. Mexican activists have staged a protest rally in front of the US Embassy in the capital Mexico City, criticizing the American government for blocking efforts to... 

The Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency in the wake of a new outbreak of bird flu that has affected some 1.7 million fowl, leaving around 870,000 dead. ­“We have activated a national animal health emergency with the goal of diagnosing, preventing, controlling and eradicating the Type A, sub-type H7N3 bird flu virus,” the country’s agriculture ministry said. The... 

The Mexican unit of retail-giant Wal-Mart, Walmex, is accused of bribing Mexican officials in an attempt to obtain permits for expansion of its branches. Mexico’s Federal Comptroller’s Office has launched an inquiry into bribery charges against a Mexican unit of the American retail-giant Wal-Mart for allegedly bribing Mexican officials to obtain expansion permits. The comptroller’s office... 

Drug cartels rule Mexico. Those criminal structures are like transnational corporations. They produce and distribute drugs in Mexico and enjoy their undivided reign in the country. Los Zetas cartel is a special phenomenon in Mexico. The cartel was literally created and developed by US special services. The unique criminal group originally appeared as a military structure. The group appeared to support... 

Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora has been killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, November 11, 2011. Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora and seven others have been killed in a helicopter crash near Mexico City. “Unfortunately the interior secretary, his collaborators and the helicopter crew were found dead,” government spokesman Alejandra Sota said in a Friday... 

Mexicans soldiers guard Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, a top operative of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, in Mexico City, on November 7, 2011. Mexican army troops have arrested a top operative of the once-powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel in the northwestern state of Baja California. Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, alias “El Sillas”, and three associates were arrested over the weekend in the... 

A grim report prepared by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, Chairman of Russia’s Government Military-Industrial Commission, is warning today that US President Obama’s order to install Raytheon (RTN) SM-3 missile defense systems 50 miles from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad this past week is “more than likely” related to America’s planned invasion of Mexico that he warns “may be imminent.” Ivanov’s... 

The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” TheWrap has learned. The information — protected for 80 years — is expected to reveal Mayan beliefs in future catastrophes and wisdom characterized as “shocking,” producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of... 

Thousands of Mexicans attend the march against gang violence in Mexico City. An anti-violence march that began in a central state with a few hundred people and gathered thousands over a four-day trek reached Mexico’s capital on Sunday, led by a poet whose son was killed by suspected drug traffickers. An estimated 20,000 people poured into the main Zocalo square in Mexico City, wearing white T-shirts... 

It’s been four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a concerted effort to curb drug-related violence across Mexico, deploying 50,000 federal troops charged with dismantling the country’s drug cartels and drug transportation networks. Much to the chagrin of Calderón, his government’s escalation was met head-on by the cartels, resulting in a 60 percent increase in... 

Forensic workers stood by the body of a woman lying next to a passenger bus in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Thursday. During its nearly four-year crackdown on major drug trafficking organizations, the Mexican government has repeated the mantra that most of the nearly 30,000 people killed have some association with the illicit trade. But in the span of a week, a devastating...