Felipe Calderon
Mexican teenage girls train as drug cartel killers
Jun 17, 2011 15:51 EDT
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Dwarfed by surrounding reporters and with her head bowed to avoid the television cameras, the slender 16-year-old hesitated slightly before she answered the question. "I'm a hitwoman," she said.
Crusading poet embodies Mexico's drug war pain
Jun 16, 2011 11:56 EDT
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (Reuters) - It was well past midnight when Mexicans usually too afraid to venture out after dark streamed into Chihuahua's central square to hear a poet's call for an end to the country's destructive drug war.
Secret tunnels found on US-Mexico border
Jun 15, 2011 17:33 EDT
More than 150 secret tunnels for smuggling people and drugs into the United States have been found on its long, porous border with Mexico, some in use for more than two decades, US officials said Wednesday.
Governor's bodyguards found dismembered in Mexico
Jun 15, 2011 16:20 EDT
The mutilated corpses of two bodyguards for the governor of Mexico's Nuevo Leon state were found Wednesday in plastic bags outside a supermarket, officials said.
Gunmen kill Mexican governor's guards, leave threat
Jun 15, 2011 15:03 EDT
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen dumped the mutilated bodies of two bodyguards assigned to a Mexican state governor on Wednesday and left a message threatening more violence but the governor said he would not be cowed.
Mexican ex-mayor arrested over arsenal walks free
Jun 14, 2011 22:49 EDT
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Detained Mexican tycoon and former city mayor Jorge Hank Rhon walked free on Tuesday, days after the army found a weapons cache in his home, in an embarrassment for President Felipe Calderon.
Mexican peace caravan crosses US border
Jun 11, 2011 18:49 EDT
A week-long Mexican peace caravan crossed the border into El Paso, Texas on Saturday as protest leader and poet Javier Sicilia called on the US to do more in the fight against drug-related violence in Mexico.
Mexico peace convoy to sign national pact
Jun 10, 2011 18:38 EDT
More than 200 Mexican civil groups were Friday set to adopt a pact protesting the country's drug-related violence as a peace caravan arrived in Ciudad Juarez, where 3,100 people were murdered in 2010.
Mexico peace convoy arrives in Ciudad Juarez
Jun 10, 2011 03:13 EDT
A Mexican convoy protesting violence triggered by a military crackdown on drug cartels has arrived in Ciudad Juarez, on the final leg of its 3,000-kilometer (1,860-mile) journey.
Mexico peace convoy set to reach Ciudad Juarez
Jun 09, 2011 19:42 EDT
A Mexican convoy protesting violence triggered by a military crackdown on drug cartels was Thursday to arrive in Ciudad Juarez on the final leg of its 3,000-kilometer (1,860-mile) journey.
21 bodies found in Mexican president's home town
Jun 09, 2011 15:31 EDT
MORELIA, Mexico (Reuters) - Police in the western Mexican city of Morelia have found the bodies of 21 men next to notes identifying them as criminals and warning of more killings to come, authorities said Thursday.
Mexican official challenges Texas travel warnings
Jun 09, 2011 12:12 EDT
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas state government warnings to Americans about travel to Mexico are "ludicrous," "misinformed," and may damage the country's safest tourist destinations, Mexico's tourism chief told Reuters on Wednesday.
Mexican official challenges Texas travel warnings
Jun 09, 2011 12:12 EDT
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas state government warnings to Americans about travel to Mexico are "ludicrous," "misinformed," and may damage the country's safest tourist destinations, Mexico's tourism chief told Reuters on Wednesday.
Mexicans begin anti-violence caravan to US border
Jun 04, 2011 21:18 EDT
Mexicans protesting a military crackdown on drug cartels launched a convoy protest that will travel through some of Mexico's bloodiest towns on its way to the US border.
"Peace caravan" crossing Mexico to protest drug war
Jun 04, 2011 16:31 EDT
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Mexicans began a weeklong caravan on Saturday to protest the country's bloody drug war, led by a crusading poet whose son was murdered by suspected cartel hitmen.
Mexican drug war scares U.S. teens off smuggling
Jun 03, 2011 10:00 EDT
EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Police in the U.S. border city of El Paso can thank criminals in Mexico for ridding them of one serious problem -- teenage drug smuggling.
Mexican teens turn to kidnapping in drug war city
Jun 02, 2011 17:29 EDT
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - School dropout Toby was just 15 when he and his friends started kidnapping businessmen, truck drivers and lawyers for ransom in Mexico's most violent city, Ciudad Juarez.
Mexico's Pemex sues U.S. firms over fuel smuggling
Jun 02, 2011 16:40 EDT
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's state-run oil company Pemex is suing 11 U.S. companies for buying up to $300 million of fuel stolen by drug gangs and smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border, court documents showed.
Brazil welcomes Carstens' IMF bid; no backing yet
Jun 01, 2011 17:55 EDT
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil welcomed the Mexican central bank chief's candidacy for the IMF's top job on Wednesday as a step forward for emerging economies but stopped short of offering an endorsement, saying it needed more time to decide which candidate to back.
Brazil welcomes Carstens' IMF bid; no backing yet
Jun 01, 2011 13:32 EDT
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil welcomed the Mexican central bank chief's candidacy for the IMF's top job on Wednesday as a step forward for emerging economies but stopped short of offering an endorsement, saying it needed more time to decide which candidate to back.
