Driver loses control over vehicle, mows into audience
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Monster Truck Wreck Kills 8 in Mexico
Driver may have been incapacitated
40,000 Tourists Stranded in Acapulco as Storm Kills 60 in Mexico
Updated: 3:45 P.M.
Chaos broke out in Mexico’s famous beach resort of Acapulco on Wednesday. Hotels rationed food for about 40,000 stranded tourists as floodwaters engulfed homes and cars, killing at least 60 people across the country. Acapulco’s international airport terminal is waist deep in water with mud, blocking the main access …
Leaders of Mexico and Brazil Rebuke U.S. for NSA Snooping
Embattled Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto got a welcome gift this week when Congress passed his education reform bill despite massive protests by teachers. But another present may have dropped into his lap, this one …
Mass Grave in Mexico Held Bodies of Kidnapped Teens
Discovery could mean closure after disappearance of a dozen teens
Mexico’s Feared Narcos: A Brief History of the Zetas Drug Cartel
Mexican marines arrested the boss of the country’s cruelest drug cartel early Monday, a triumph for the Mexican government even as the bloody drug war shows few signs of slowing. Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the notorious …
Mexico Is on the Rise, But What About Its Middle Class?
When President Obama visited Mexico in May, he spoke a few words of Spanish, praised the paintings of Frida Kahlo and quoted author Octavio Paz. Then he hit his key message: “Because of the sacrifices of generations, a majority …
Legalizing Marijuana and Other Ways the U.S. and Mexico Can Win the Drug War
There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico this week. That’s because Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is in change-the-conversation mode: he wants the
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Obama’s Mexico Visit: Not Just About the Drug War Anymore
When former Mexican President Felipe Calderón waged his war on drug cartels, the media were guaranteed a crime photo op every few weeks. Alleged gangsters were thrust before the press along with heaps of guns, money and …
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The Rise of Mexico’s Vigilante Militias: Will They Help or Hurt the Drug War?
Frustrated by the government’s lack of progress against criminal gangs, local communities are fielding their own security forces
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Marijuana, By Air: Mexican Gangs Use Cannon to Hurl Drugs Across U.S. Border
Smugglers are using improvised cannons to shoot marijuana packs over border.