Battles between the vicious Zetas gang and other drug cartels led to the discovery of more than 40 bodies in a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday. At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened fire in a bar late Friday in the northern city of Monterrey, where the gang is fighting its former ally, the Gulf Cartel, said federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire. Eleven... 

Mexican authorities arrested Jose de Jesus Mendez, known as “El Chango,” or “The Monkey,” the alleged leader of the Familia Cartel and one of the nation’s most-wanted traffickers. Mendez was captured today in the central state of Aguascalientes by members of the federal police, government security spokesman Alejandro Poire said today. He said the arrest was the government’s... 

Investigators suspect that the killings may have been carried out by the Sinaloa, Los Zetas and Beltran Leyva drug cartels, Mexican media reported. Investigators and army troops found another 17 bodies in Durango city, the capital of the like-named northern Mexican state, over the weekend, bringing to 218 the number of bodies found at several sites since early April, officials said. Federal Police... 

Billionaire: Joaquin Guzman Loera "el Chapo Guzman" pictured in a Mexican prison in 1993 before his escape. He is the top dog in Mexico’s bloody drug war, presiding over a $1billion drug empire and acused of firing the first shot in a bloody cartel war that has so far killed 38,000 people. And now, aside from a personal fortune to rival Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, Joaquin Guzman Loera... 

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... 

The Mexican drug cartel issue is not a marginalized thing in the US, most drugs in the US come from South American drug cartels and now it’s not only the drug issue but crimes as well. More and more Americans are getting in the middle of gang conflicts, David Hartley’s case is only one example of how an innocent man can get killed just because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time,... 

A gas station in Mexico. With the price of oil soaring to more than $100 a barrel, many Americans are making a shocking decision on how to fill up their vehicles. Americans who live near Mexico are sometimes driving across the border for gas where prices are on average $1.20 per gallon cheaper. There are conservative and liberal solutions to our dangerous dependence on foreign oil. The constant fighting... 

A Korean satellite has caught an eye-catching view of an island in Mexico for a deep, rocky hole and waters so dark that they earned it the name Holbox―a name that means “black hole.” The photo was taken by the Korea Multi-purpose Satellite 2, or Kompsat-2, and show Holbox Island and its Yalahou lagoon at the northeast corner of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The photo was revealed in the science... 

Previous: The pits were found in the farm hamlet of La Joya in the township of San Fernando, in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants, most from Central America, were found murdered last August. Mexican security forces searching for abducted bus passengers in a violent northern state bordering Texas have stumbled on a collection of pits holding a total of 59 bodies. The grisly find was made... 

In one of the deadliest three days that officials can remember, more than 50 people were killed in Juárez. Among the 53 victims between Thursday and Saturday were a Juárez police officer, a municipal patrolman and a state investigator. According to Chihuahua state officials it was the most violent three-day period seen this year. State police reported that on average eight people are killed in Juárez... 

Charlotte Cassez, mother of Florence Cassez, sentenced in Mexico to 60 years in prison for kidnapping, gives a press conference in Lille, northern France. A Mexican court on February 10, upheld the conviction of a French woman who is serving a 60-year prison term for kidnapping. Diplomatic relations between France and Mexico deteriorated into a crisis Friday, after a Mexican court upheld a 60-year... 

An American missionary shot dead in Mexico may have been targeted for her expensive pickup truck, police say. Nancy and Sam Davis were attacked by gunmen Wednesday while driving their 2008 Chevrolet pickup on a highway near San Fernando, about 70 miles south of the Mexican border city of Reynosa, police said. A bullet struck Nancy Davis, 59, in the head. Her husband raced to get her to medical help,... 

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... 

Drug-related violence over the weekend claimed 51 lives across Mexico, including 15 decapitations in the beach resort of Acapulco, authorities reported. The beheadings, mutilations, drive-by shootings and summary executions were carried out in southeastern Guerrero and northern Chihuahua states, as well as in the Mexican capital, despite the government’s five-year, 50,000-troop crackdown on... 

20-year-old criminology student Marisol Valles became the bravest college girl in North America when she stepped up to be police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico’s second-most violent city after Juarez. Nobody else would accept the position. Guadalupe’s mayor was murdered in June; police beheadings are common. The current mayor said his hands were tied: Valles, a criminology major, “was...