Elisabeth Malkin
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 00:00
Raul Gutierrez, a spokesperson for the state attorney general's office, said the authorities believed that the killings were unlikely to have been tied to drug trafficking.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 00:00
The police chief, Marisol Valles Garcia, a college criminology student, had been hired in October after nobody else would take the job.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 00:00
A man who confessed to executing 60 people while working for the drug gang La Familia has told the police that he was originally recruited for the job by the mayor of the small town where he lives, the authorities said.
Friday, November 5, 2010 - 00:00
The authorities on Wednesday recovered 18 bodies from the grave, and family members of the missing men were traveling to Acapulco.
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 00:00
Ciudad Juarez has become one of the most violent cities in the world since the Mexican government began its crackdown on drug cartels four years ago
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 00:00
Yolanda Martinez, one of eight women imprisoned on homicide charges in Guanajuato, Mexico, talked with reporters after she was freed this month.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 00:00
With the pace of killings rising, officials have backed off their effort to persuade Mexicans that the mounting death toll was proof that the government was succeeding in disrupting the cartels.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
The death of a senior leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel on Thursday is a step towards the first goal. But it will do nothing to make Mexicans feel any safer.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 00:00
This week, one gang adopted a new tactic: kidnapping journalists to get their videos on the air.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 00:00
The Honduran government's failure to investigate the killings of seven journalists this year has fostered "a climate of lawlessness that is allowing criminals to kill journalists with impunity," the Committee to Protect Journalists concluded.