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Arizona's new law forcing local police to take a greater role in enforcing immigration law has caused a lot of criticism from Mexico, the largest single source of illegal immigrants in the United States. But in Mexico, illegal immigrants receive t
As Arizona Governor Brewer kills ethnic studies, there’s an unexpected force behind the state's awful immigration bill: Mexico's President Felipe Calderon whose war on drugs turned the US-Mexico border into a bloody slaughterhouse, complete with kid
It is 9/11 everyday on our southern border and for our citizens there. What? No NORTHCOM? No Swat teams? No riot police? No CIA? No FBI? No drones? No ADS systems or sonic weapons?
“Invisible Victims: Migrants on the Move in Mexico” details the abuse faced by Central American migrants, who cross the southern border between Guatemala and Mexico, usually en route to the US. Each year, tens of thousands of migrants make the trip.
One day after Mexican President Felipe Calderón condemned the new Arizona immigration law, Mexico issued a travel warning that 'all Mexican citizens could be bothered or questioned without motive at any moment.'
Mexico is bracing itself for communications chaos tomorrow, with some 24m mobile phone lines due to be disconnected as part of a government crackdown on organised crime.
Silver miners first discovered Mexico's surreal Cave of Crystals almost a decade ago. The BBC recently took a rare tour of the underground cavern that contains the world's largest naturally grown crystals, where some selenite structures reach almost
Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines in a vast and audacious conspiracy that is bleeding the national treasury
Declaring the state-owned company so poorly managed as to be "unsustainable," President Calderón authorized the seizure of Central Light and Power. He also deployed about 1,000 federal police officers in riot gear to enforce his decree; workers from
Mexican trade association representing more than 4,500 trucking companies is seeking $6 billion in damages from the U.S. government because of Washington's refusal to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo over U.S. roads..
A citizen journalist traveling from his home state of California to cover the Flu Pandemic in Mexico City. But on his third day at Ground Zero for the deadly flu there is little evidence of a pandemic to be found.
Centro Medico Nacional la Raza and Hospital General de Mexico in Mexico City are ground zero where locals are reporting up to 250 dead of the Avian/Swine/Human Flu virus now circulating around the globe.
George on the scene in Mexico City: “They call it the Influenza here, and The Panic. That’s the big thing they talk about.” George continues, “These Federal Police from what I can understand from my guides limited English, is they are going around
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an emergency in his country’s swine flu outbreak, giving him powers to order quarantines and suspend public events.
It’s considered a strain of swine flu but also combines genetic material from birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before. Evidence emerged Friday that there is a new flu virus to which many people may have little or no immunity - key
"I recently did something I have never done before in my fifty plus-year career, I cancelled a concert because of violence and mayhem."
Mexico slapped tariffs on 90 American agricultural and manufactured exports on Monday in retaliation for Washington's move to block Mexican trucks from using U.S. highways. Mexican Economy Minister said about $2.4 billion worth of exports from 40
Drug cartels have grown in power and wealth in Mexico, and have now taken to open war with the authorities, who are finding themselves increasingly outgunned against better funded and supplied adversaries sporting military-grade weaponry. An estimat
President Obama weighed in on the escalating drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that he was looking at possibly deploying National Guard troops to contain the violence but ruled out any immediate military move.
"We're all working very hard to move the capabilities that are desirable to Mexico as quickly as we can," said Admiral Mike Mullen. Washington could help in the battle against the powerful cartels, citing intelligence, surveillance and
You’ve got it, folks. American aliens are invading Mexico. Not with backpacks and children in tow, but on the winds of cross-pollination.
Joe Biden was widely criticised for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a "generated" international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union "tested" John F Kennedy short
Mexican and foreign bystanders have been injured or killed in violent attacks in cities across the country, demonstrating the heightened risk of violence in public places. In recent years, dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped across Mexico.
Going to Mexico for spring break is practically a rite of passage... but the state's three public universities want to warn young revelers about stepped-up violence south of the border.
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican police say assailants hurled two grenades at a police station in the southwestern beach town of Zihuatanejo, wounding one officer and four civilians.
I am a border rat. I've been one since the day I hopped back and forth between countries over a fallen, rusty barbed-wire fence in the woodland along the Arizona-Mexico line some 40 years ago. Since that act of joyful anarchy, I've traveled t
The money sent home by Mexican migrants fell in 2008 for the first time on record, Mexico's central bank said --- part of a global trend that could worsen as emigrants from developing countries lose jobs in the global financial crisis.
Mexican police and soldiers are battling a wave of drug-related violence across the country, particularly in northern areas bordering the US, with more than 5,300 people killed last year.
Shadowy vigilante groups are threatening Mexico's drug gangs in retaliation for a wave of murders and kidnappings. "We cannot tolerate the presence of these type of faceless, anonymous groups," said a spokesman for the state
EL PASO - Mexico is one of two countries that "bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse," according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats.
