Sun May 30, 2010 1:11 AM EDT
Mexican police on Saturday found an abandoned silver mine scattered with bodies outside a colonial-era town popular with international tourists.
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Fri May 1, 2009 8:34 PM EDT
Acapulco's mayor is telling tourists from Mexico City to go home, and residents are stoning their cars. Cancun's hotels are pleading for visitors to fill their empty rooms. The swine flu outbreak is remaking tourism in strange ways in a country heavily dependent on it.
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Thu Dec 25, 2008 6:01 PM EST
Soldiers arrested the deputy police chief of a Mexican resort town and six other officers who were allegedly protecting drug cartel members at a cock fight, the Defense Department said Thursday.
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Mon Oct 6, 2008 12:33 PM EDT
The party that governed Mexico for 71 consecutive years has rebounded in local elections, returns showed on Monday, and a poll had it jumping into the lead for next year's national congressional vote.
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Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:33 AM EDT
State authorities have agreed to pay 490,000 pesos (US$48,000) in compensation to 14 indigenous Mexican men coerced into having vasectomies, an official said.
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Fri May 23, 2008 12:25 AM EDT
Mexico's federal police need more-powerful weapons to battle heavily armed drug cartels, a senior police official said Wednesday
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Mon May 5, 2008 4:43 PM EDT
Thousands of white-clad people marched silently Sunday to protest a surge of drug-related violence in a Mexican city across from Texas where the No. 2 police officer was shot dead.
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Sun Apr 1, 2007 8:11 PM EDT
A video purportedly showing the beheading of a drug cartel hit man appeared on video-sharing Web site YouTube, and its makers called on Mexicans to kill more members of the gang.
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Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:19 AM EDT
Hurricane John pummeled Mexico's resort-studded Pacific Coast with wind and rain Thursday, plotting a course that could take its eye close to land before nicking the tip of Baja California.
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