Category: Mexico

Mexico Car Bomb Kills Two, Injures 7 More

Top Story — A car bomb exploded Tuesday morning in the Mexico border state of Tamaulipas, killing two police officers and wounding seven more people. The bomb had been placed outside the home […] Read More >

Peña Nieto, PRI Victory In Mexico

Top Story— Mexican voters returned the Institutional Revolutionary Party to power on Sunday after PRI candidate and front-runner Enrique Peña Nieto outpaced his rivals to win Mexico’s presidential elections with […] Read More >

Mexico: “Yo Soy 132” Movement Seeks To Influence Presidential Elections

MEXICO CITY — On his May 11 visit to the Ibero-American University in Mexico City, Mexican presidential hopeful Enrique Peña Nieto was received by a crowd of students holding signs […] Read More >

Mexican Congress Votes To Compensate Crime Victims

Top Story — Both houses of Mexican Congress approved a law to compensate victims of crimes that will be partially financed by assets seized from organized crime groups. The law […] Read More >

Mexico: Escaped Kidnapping Victim Kills 4, Dies In Gunfight

Today in Latin America Top Story — Mexican police killed a man believed to be the victim of a kidnapping after he killed two of his captors, a former police officer, […] Read More >

Twelve Mexican Police Die In Ambush While Investigating Murders

Today in Latin America Top Story — Gunmen in Mexico ambushed and killed twelve Guerrero state police officers Sunday night as they traveled in pickups to search for the bodies […] Read More >

Mexico: 167 Bodies Discovered In Mayan Mass Grave

Today in Latin America Top Story — The remains of 167 people discovered in a cave in Chiapas on Friday were buried in a pre-Colombian cemetery, according to Mexico’s main […] Read More >

Mexican Gov. Says Drug War Death Toll Over 47,500

Today in Latin America Top Story — The Mexican government released statistics Wednesday showing that more than 47,500 people have been killed in drug-related violence since Mexican President Felipe Calderón […] Read More >

Mexico: Racism Prevalent Among Children, Revealing Cultural Pattern (Study)

Racist attitudes continue to be passed down to Mexico’s children, according to a video released by a federal government agency in the country last week as part of a campaign […] Read More >

Mexico: PRI Wins Michoacan Governor Election, Preliminary Results Say

Today in Latin America Top Story — Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in Spanish) took the governorship of Michoacán, according to preliminary results released Monday, in an election that many […] Read More >