ICE frees Mexican journalist
Region: Mexico
Not much happens at the lonely outpost of Antelope Wells, a border crossing in the remote bootheel area of New Mexico. It is the smallest and least-used border crossing of the 43 ports of entry along the border with Mexico... more
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Mexican Catholic churches benefit from drug-related donations
Region: Mexico
In Mexico, the Catholic Church walks a fine line between two forces: narco-traffickers and the government. Although the Church does not readily concede that it benefits from narco donations, people are aware of th... more
Views: 705Mexico may become a "failed state"
Region: Mexico
Mexico is being characterized as a “failing state” in two recent U.S. reports on the status of the country and its fight against drug crime. The analysts warn in the reports that the government could collapse i... more
Views: 726Three drug tunnels discovered in Nogales, Mexico
Region: Mexico
Three uncompleted tunnels that ran under the US/Mexico border in the city of Nogales were recently discovered by Mexican and U.S. police. So far, no one knows who or which group built the tunnels, which were obviously u... more
Views: 891US Border Patrol agents will be freed
Region: Texas
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, the two former U.S. Border Patrol agents who had been imprisoned for two years for shooting a Mexican drug dealer, received good news/bad news this week. The good news: President Bush ... more
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Japanese tourist stays in Mexico airport for 3 months
Region: Mexico
Hiroshi Nohara had a mega layover in Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport – 117 days to be exact. After visiting the city in the fall, the Japanese man returned to the airport on Sept. 2 and did not leav... more
Views: 523Mexico's Calderón comes to Washington
Region: District of Columbia
Although President-elect Obama's meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón is considered by some to be largely ceremonial, Calderón has a wish list of topics to bring up when he visits Obama in Was... more
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Cartel leader nabbed by Mexican army
Region: Mexico
It is not reported exactly how, but Mexican soldiers caught drug cartel leader Adrian Rivera Garcia away from his considerable arsenal and arrested him and two associates in Tlapa de Comonfort, about 140 miles south of Mex... more
Views: 774Calderon outlines plan for Mexico's struggling economy
Region: Mexico
Mexico, finding itself in the same economic downspin as the rest of the world, is taking steps to jumpstart its economy. President Felipe Calderon recently announced a plan in which he hopes to increase spending on sch... more
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Kidnapping expert in peril
Region: Mexico
Anti-kidnapping expert Felix Batista has helped countless kidnap victims' families negotiate the release of kidnapping victims throughout Latin America. But he appears helpless to shed any light on one of the latest kidnap... more
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