Jo Tuckman
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 00:00
Josefina Vazquez Mota, a former education minister, won Sunday's nationwide poll of members of the National Action party (PAN) with around 55% of the votes cast.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
The official daily death toll has fallen from 3.6 in the two months before the start of the operation to 1.6 in the same period after it, and the operation is now touted as a great success
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 00:00
Now, some say, the end could be nigh for the woman known simply as La Maestra, or The Teacher.
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 00:00
Relatives of those killed in drug war led by military want force-based policy swapped for action on poverty and corruption.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 00:00
Battle with drug cartels brings anti-corruption drive in which officers fail lie-detector or toxicology tests
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 00:00
Yesterday Calderon finally accepted that the strategy had failed to rein in the cartels, and called on his growing number of critics to help him revise the government's approach.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 00:00
Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, has joined calls for a debate on the legalisation of drugs as new figures show thousands of Mexicans every year being slaughtered in cartel wars.
Friday, July 30, 2010 - 00:00
Mexico's army claimed a victory against the country's most powerful drug cartel after troops cornered and killed the man reputed to have founded the multibillion-dollar methamphetamine trade.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
A week of bloodshed in the run-up to important Mexican regional elections culminated overnight in a savage gunfight between rival drug gangs in which at least 21 people were killed a few miles from the US border.
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
Government struggles to convince many that its military-focused strategy will eventually bring cartels to heel