Alfredo Corchado
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
He was a madman. His other nickname, Muerte-Death-said it all. It earned him the much-denied respect. His pep talk consisted of one line: If you don't kill someone every day, you're not doing your job.
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 00:00
In this remote West Texas town, about an hour from the border and the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila, many locals are perplexed about the need for more Border Patrol agents.
Monday, July 8, 2013 - 00:00
The elections in 14 states are seen as a referendum on the six-month reign of President Enrique Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 00:00
As the two leaders met, radio and television commentators were struck by their "somber faces," as one radio host put it, and "rigid body language," in the words of a television analyst
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 00:00
"I'm not going to yet judge how this will alter the relationship between the United States and Mexico until I've heard directly from them to see what exactly are they trying to accomplish," Obama said
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 00:00
President Enrique Pena Nieto, accompanied by the popular former leader of Brazil, pledged to make the fight against poverty a top priority as he visited one of Mexico's poorest communities.
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 00:00
Hermano Narco, a controversial series of 12 short films the Catholic Church in Mexico is producing to teach a grieving nation the importance of forgiveness amid an epidemic of drug violence
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 00:00
By many accounts, the current hotspot in the country is a region known as La Laguna, an area of about 1 million people made up of Torreon, Coahuila, and the adjoining cities of Gomez Palacio and Lerdo in neighboring Durango
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 00:00
Pena Nieto is expected to officially name Eduardo Guerrero Gutierrez, a security expert and writer whose work appears in top intellectual magazines, as a top security adviser. He was an influential critic of former President Felipe Calderon's drug policy
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 00:00
Pena Nieto is expected to name his Cabinet on Friday, just hours before he takes office. There have been suggestions that it will include two key players who will play central roles in the U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship.