As law enforcement battled to dismantle the major cartels, they splintered into numerous smaller organized crime rings that began spreading across the country. Once Northern Mexico used to be the flashpoint of drug trafficking-related crimes. But today, the violence is more widespread. Approximately 2...
(AP) MEXICO CITY - After police found 49 dismembered bodies strewn on a Mexican highway leading to the Texas border, it took the army just a week to parade an alleged drug trafficker before journalists as the man who purportedly oversaw the body dump. Yet two months after the grisly disco...
Mexico Citysocial perceptionAlthough attempted on a daily basis, it is difficult to truly analyse the problems faced by police today, both as an institution and as a part of society, due to the complex current situation in Mexico. The lack of public safety is not only due to crime, but ...
Local farm communities — many of whose members are paid as park rangers or soil conservation workers by the city government — think that organized crime gangs have moved into the illegal logging business. Article content It would not be a far stretch: Such gangs have long...
In the rare situation where you see yourself being the victim of a crime or even kidnapping while in Mexico City, the first rule on your mind is:do not resist. As frustrating as it is to let your attackers take all your possessions, any item can be replaced; your health can’t. There...
But public and off-the-record statements by parties involved indicate that Tamaulipas presents a complex situation that even federal forces can't handle. Generations of mistrust complicate the federal effort, as well as links between local officials and organized crime dating back to the 1920s Prohi...
Vigilante leader Hipolito Mora said the agreement also allows those who qualify to join local police forces. "The majority of us want to get into the police ... I never imagined myself dressed as a policeman, but the situation is driving me to put on a uniform," he said in an intervie...
"It has been eight extremely hard years for the victim's family. This is the first step in the first phase of them finding justice for their loved one, and they're incredibly happy but going through a wide range of emotions, as you can imagine, as anyone would in this situ...
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — When migrants arrive to the main crossing point into southern Mexico -- a steamy city with no job opportunities, a place packed with foreigners eager to keep moving north -- they soon learn the only way to cut through the red tape and expedite what can ...
Crime wasn’t the focus of Pew’s recent survey, which found Americans overwhelmingly fault the government for how it’s handled the situation at the border and gave respondents a chance to weigh in on possible policy solutions. Its release earlier this month came on the heels of several hi...