Local authorities acted quickly to solve the murder of lakeside resident Allan Robert Turnipseed, combing the community for clues that led to the capture early this week of two teenage brothers who have reportedly confessed to the grisly crime. The body of Turnipseed, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen, was discovered in his Riberas del Pilar home on Thursday, January 6, the apparent victim of a robbery gone horribly wrong. Read Article
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In the late hours and early morning in the state of Jalisco there were several attacks with heavy weapons and grenades that left three dead, one injured and physical damage. Some of the members arrested confessed to being part of a cell of the criminal organization called “resistance” that resulted from the breakoff of the […]
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Three cruise lines will end or scale back on trips to Mexico from Southern California, a trend some in the industry attribute to escalating drug violence in Mexico that has frightened away tourists. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd’s (RCL.N) luxury liner Mariner of the Seas will depart on Sunday on its final run from the Port […]
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Mexican authorities have arrested a man wanted in the 2009 kidnapping of a three year old in Riverside. Israel Moreno, 29, was arrested on a federal fugitive warrant after FBI agents in Riverside learned of his whereabouts in Guadalajara, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Moreno was one of two men charged in the May 3, […]
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The mayor of the small central Mexico town of Temoac was shot to death Monday, and the body of a northern mayor was found riddled with bullets Friday. Oaxaca state prosecutor Manuel de Jesus Lopez said on Thursday that Luis Jimenez Mata, who only took up his post in Santiago Amoltepec at the start of […]
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The government should regard two grenade attacks this week on news media in northern Mexico – one against Televisa in Piedras Negras and one against a local newspaper in Monterrey – as a serious warning and should speed implementation of a federal-level convention on the protection of journalists that was signed in November. Read Article
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Mexican authorities say a state police officer has been slain while on patrol in Monterrey, becoming the ninth officer killed in just two weeks in the northern industrial city. Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene says the officer was on patrol near the Tec de Monterrey University when he was killed. He says a […]
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More than 300,000 people in eight municipalities of the Isthmus are at risk of suffering a tragedy such as occurred in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla, on 18 December last year, because they are seated near pipelines of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), warned the director of Civil Protection State Institute of Oaxaca, Manuel Sánchez Maza. Read Article
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Mexico’s oil and gas regulator unveiled new rules for deep-water drilling today aimed at preventing a repeat of BP’s Macondo Gulf oil spill but stopped short of halting drilling during the safety review. Read Article
During the winter holiday period, the Green Angels Corporation attended and provided roadside assistance to more than 67 000 tourists, said the Ministry of Tourism (Tourism Ministry). Operating In Winter 2010, the Green Angels went a million 600 thousand miles to patrol the 262 route highways. In addition, during part of the Paisano Program provided […]
It was 7:00am last Friday morning when a passenger bus of the Autobuses Unidos de Sinaloa line travelling from Culiacán to Mazatlán on the Maxipista stopped close to the town of La Cruz Elota and three young men boarded as passengers. As the bus approached Estación Dimas in San Ignacio, the young men left their […]
Mexico will maintain punitive tariffs on 99 U.S. products but will not add any more goods or change the list pending negotiations over a new program to allow Mexican cargo trucks on U.S. roads, the government announced Monday. Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said the move is a show of goodwill as the two countries begin […]
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas woman who wants to sue the federal government for sending her U.S. citizen baby to Mexico with the child’s illegal immigrant father. Read Article
At least 16 people died from a cold snap that has been plaguing Mexico since October, the government said on Sunday. Among low temperature-related deaths registered between Oct 21 and Jan 5, 12 took place in the northern state of Chihuahua, and two each occurred in the Coahuila and Puebla states, the health ministry said […]
Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, local media reported. The victims, all male, were discovered at dawn near a shopping mall along with several, threatening hand-written messages that are typically left as a calling card by drug cartels. Read Article
The two trusted traveler programs included in the Global Entry program by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are NEXUS and the Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection (SENTRI). NEXUS is a program jointly administered by the United States and Canada that allows certain pre-approved, low-risk travelers expedited processing for travel between the United […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today shared with Congress and the government of Mexico an initial concept document for a long haul cross-border Mexican trucking program that prioritizes safety, while satisfying the United States’ international obligations. After the demonstration program was terminated in March 2009, Secretary LaHood and other Administration officials met with lawmakers, safety […]
Thanks to its experience with community forestry projects, Mexico can provide tips on how to manage forests while fomenting the development of local economies in 2011, the International Year of Forests. Every year, some 13 million hectares of forests are lost worldwide, and deforestation is responsible for 20 percent of total emissions of carbon dioxide, […]
Arrested in Sinaloa, northwestern Mexico, a U.S. citizen of 68 years for rape of minors, authorities said. The man was identified as Robert Leman Stillings, wanted for the crime of statutory rape by a court of Detroit, United States, said the state attorney. He was arrested in Mazatlan. Read Article
A total of 517 executions recorded in 2010 the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, an entity the U.S. border. Of the total, 30 were innocent victims, “said Jorge Domene, spokesman for the State Security Council. Read Article
The scandal currently embroiling Germany’s biggest small arms manufacturer is becoming more and more difficult to contain. Heckler & Koch (H&K) stands accused of illegally exporting handguns and automatic rifles to embargoed regions of Mexico in the grip of a deadly drugs war, and of deceiving the Federal Security Council, chaired by Chancellor Angela Merkel, […]
Mexico reopened the last of its three main oil ports on the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, the government said. The Dos Bocas port closed Sunday due to bad weather but was reopened on Tuesday, while Mexico’s two biggest export ports closed and reopened on Monday. Read Article
About 60,000 Central American undocumented immigrants enter Mexico each year, most of them from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, official sources said on Monday. The undocumented enter Mexican territory mainly by the Soconusco and Coast zone, bordering Guatemala, said Andrea Hernandez, Chiapas’ director for Southern Border Development and Communication for the International Cooperation. Read Article
Mexico plans a shake-up of its corruption-ridden immigration institute, officials said, after a year that saw some of the worst atrocities against illegal migrants trekking through the country – including the mass slaughter of 72 Central and South Americans trying to reach the United States. The dismissals early this week will include several top directors […]
Members of the Deomcratic Front and Barrios de Mazatlán are calling for the investigtion of 36 municipal employees. They are threatening a march of 2000 people in the coming days from Barrios de Mazatlán to Oaxaca. The current situation is tense and violence could be present. Read Article
A recent outbreak of ATM scams in Puerto Vallarta involving cloned cash machines designed to steal confidential banking information has been the latest method to fraud visitors to the popular resort town. Many times a day tourists use one of the ATMs installed into the street-side of locaRead Article
A letter purportedly signed by the La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated Sunday in the western state of Michoacan. In the one-page message, distributed by e-mail and in some cities door by door, the gang claims it will halt all crime activity during January to demonstrate that the cartel “is not responsible […]
About 10 percent of Zacatecas population suffers from depression in different parts of their lives, said Victor Manuel Aguilar Soria, Director of Health Hospital Mental Health Services Zacatecas (SSZ). According to the records of the department, the percentage of population suffers from mental illness at some point in their lives, among the most common are […]
The first minutes of this year had nothing different for people on the streets and thousands of poor people in Mexico City. Unlike other homes no food to prepare, at the tables just a few dishes of beans, tortillas and salt, whereas street children received the year under a bridge, drains and parks, with their […]
The FBI told KPHO in Phoenix, Arizona has denied that the U.S. man murdered in Culiacan, Mexico on Thursday is related to any employee of the FBI.
A 26-YEAR OLD US man was shot dead in a taco restaurant in north-western Mexico, a Mexican justice official said on Thursday. The official from Sinaloa state, the cradle of Mexico’s drug trafficking industry, told AFP that family members had identified the victim as Christopher Elecnis Mandil, a musician from the southern US state of […]
The Sian Ka’an nature reserve, which boasts some of the most beautiful scenery on the Mexican Caribbean, received Monday another 319,000 hectares (787,654 acres) of protected land, officials said. Sian Ka’an, which means “gateway to the heavens” in Mayan, has been under pressure for years from the hotel business, the chief driving force of the […]
With the rise of gruesome massacres and public shootouts that have put civilians in the line of fire, Mexico City has become an unlikely oasis for some hoping to escape the drug war. Read Article
A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable published Saturday depicts the leader of Mexico’s Army “lamenting” its lengthy role in the anti-drug offensive, but expecting it to last between seven and 10 more years. The cable says Defense Secretary Gen. Guillermo Galván mistrusts other Mexican law enforcement agencies and prefers to work separately, because corrupt officials had […]
Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life. The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. […]
Esco Technologies Inc. said Monday that Mexico’s Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) issued an additional purchase order for power-line technology through its Aclara PLS Inc. unit. Read Article
Police in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco have found the decapitated, mutilated bodies of two men in front of a bar where 11 men were reportedly abducted earlier this month. Read Story
Security forces have this year arrested over 27,000 suspected drug gang members, as part of Mexico’s ongoing bloody military-led crackdown on cartel operations, officials said. Among the top captures for Mexican authorities were the arrests of drug kingpin Edgar Valdez, known as “the Barbie,” as well as the killings of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a top […]
The supposed kidnappers of 50 Central American migrants who disappeared in southern Mexico last week called a family in the United States demanding a ransom, a Roman Catholic priest who first reported the abductions said Thursday. Read Article
Mexico is experiencing its bloodiest year of drug violence yet, but that’s not stopping domestic and international vacationers alike from flocking to Cancun. Read Article
Casamidy is based in San Miguel de Allende, a bastion of colonial Mexico, but many of the company’s furniture designs are drawn from other cultures. Its new Hiver Opera side chair is an example. Read Article
Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a prominent Mexican politician kidnapped in May, was released and back at his home Monday. “I am fine, thanks to God. I am strong and my life will continue to be the same,” he told the crush of reporters gathered outside of his home in Mexico City. Read Article
As many as 100 illegal immigrants were taken hostage during an attack on a train in southern Mexico last week, the director of a Catholic charity said Tuesday, citing witnesses. “From the testimonies given to us, the train was carrying around 300 migrants,” Father Heyman Vasquez, who runs a refuge along the route that took […]
Túmin, which means “money” in the Totonaca indigenous language, is a community currency now circulating among 80 vendors selling their products at an alternative market in the town of Espinal, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz. Read Article
judgment by the Inter-American Court on December 20, 2010, underscores Mexico’s obligation to stop using the military justice system for human rights abuses by the military, Human Rights Watch said today. It also shows that President Felipe Calderon’s proposed reform of the military justice system, which would only subject three types of abuses by military […]
Boeing will team up with the Mexican government and a rival supplier for $1 billion to build a three-satellite system and two ground sites for use in the Central American country’s civil communications and national security. The Chicago-based defense contractor will create the system, dubbed Mexsat, to help the Mexican government achieve secure communication for […]
A bi-national pact to allow Mexico to store a portion of its annual allocation from the Colorado River, up to 260,000 acre-feet over three years, in the largest US reservoir, Lake Mead, sets the stage for progress on environmental issues in ongoing talks between the two countries, according to Environmental Defense Fund. Read Article
Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N) said on Tuesday that it will reinstate the code-share arrangement under which it sells seats on Aeromexico planes on Dec. 29. Read Article
Stuttgart – German police searched the offices of Heckler and Koch, a German manufacturer of premium firearms, on Tuesday over suspicions that its exports of rifles to Mexico may break German arms-export laws, prosecutors in Stuttgart said. German law forbids unlicensed exports to zones of conflict. Read Article
Mexican authorities say a relative of an anti-crime crusader gunned down last week as she tried to seek justice for her slain daughter also has been found dead. Read Article
Two Chinese-built Youngman Neoplan Centroliner hybrids have entered service in the city of Guadalajara. They are among Mexico’s first hybrid buses and have a Cummins/Eaton drivetrain with a diesel engine and lithium-ion batteries. Read Article
At least 10 people were killed early Sunday when an oil pipeline exploded in central Mexico, the state news agency Notimex said. Read Article
At 11:00 am yesterday morning a 43 year old man was executed while on his motorcycle. A white vehicle pulled up alongs side the victim and began shooting. One of the gunment dressed in black exited the vehicle, went up to the victim and put a final bullet into his head. Read Article
Faced with a poor education system and dismal job prospects, boys and girls as young as 11 are lured into acting as mules, peddlers, lookouts — even executioners — for drug cartels offering easy money. Read Article
Nicaragua and Costa Rica have accepted Guatemala to work in the meditation process of helping to resolve the border dispute between the two countries. Mexico is to also participate as a meditator. Read Article
A car bomb explosion injured three people in front of a police station in the municipality of Zuazua in Nuevo Leon state of northern Mexico on Friday, authorities said. The explosion took place shortly after 1.00 p.m. local time and damaged a police motorcycle as well as three other vehicles which were parked nearby the […]
A mother campaigning to bring the confessed killer of her 16-year-old daughter to justice was herself gunned down Thursday night in view of a closed circuit television camera, leaving images that shocked Mexicans over the impunity of the killers. The murder of Marisela Escobedo unfolded Thursday night on the sidewalk in front of the governor’s […]
Nearly 150 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, and authorities said the breakout was probably helped by prison employees. The public safety department of Tamaulipas state, where the prison is located near the border with Laredo, Texas, said 141 inmates got out through a service […]
The Washington Post revealed Monday the names of the top 12 traders of weapons seized by police in actions against organized crime in Mexico in the last two years. After a yearlong investigation, the newspaper reported that eight of the main suppliers of arms to Mexico are in Texas, three in Arizona and one in […]
The highest number of guns seized by police and military at Mexican crime scenes came from Houston-based Carter’s Country, the largest gun dealer in the region, according to the Washington Post investigation. In the last two years, more than 115 guns linked to Carter’s Country were found across the border, the paper reported. Read Article
Hundreds of doctors and other health-care workers here in Mexico’s murder capital went on a 24-hour strike Monday to demand more security in light of the murders of three colleagues and the kidnappings of 11 others this year. Just two of the more than 20 main clinics and hospitals in Ciudad Juarez, just across the […]
Now as Christmas approaches, mobsters have chosen a new target, turning their sights on humble schoolteachers. Painted threats scrawled outside numerous public schools demand that teachers hand over their Christmas bonuses or face the possibility of an armed attack on the teachers — and even the children. To make the point clear, assailants set fire […]
Dozens of doctors and medical students in white coats demonstrated near a busy international bridge to demand justice for one of their own, Dr. Jose Alberto Bentancourt Rosales, an Orthopedic surgeon. He was abducted last Thursday at a hospital where he worked. His family was negotiating a ransom. His body was found dumped on Sunday […]
Mexican police have been involved in fierce gun battles with suspected drug traffickers blockading the main roads into Morelia, the capital of Michoacan state. There has also been fighting in the nearby city of Apatzingan. At least three people were killed, including an eight-month-old baby apparently caught in the crossfire. Read Article
A detained leader of Mexico’s notorious Aztecas drug gang claims to have ordered 80 percent of the thousands of murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez over the past two years, officials said Monday. View Story