Tracy Wilkinson
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 00:00
Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora says 5,376 people have been killed so far in 2008, more than twice the toll for the first 11 months of 2007
Friday, December 5, 2008 - 00:00
The increase in slayings and kidnappings related to the nation's war on drug traffickers has created a climate of fear
Monday, November 3, 2008 - 00:00
U.S. authorities have placed a $5-million bounty on Guzman's head, accusing him of smuggling tons of cocaine over the border. And yet El Chapo is still at large.
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 00:00
A recent raid in Mexico City turns up a menagerie filled with big cats and a monkey, another case of an alleged cartel boss collecting rare exotic species
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 00:00
At least 35 officials and agents from an elite unit within the federal attorney general's office have been fired or arrested in an investigation that began July 31 following tips from an informer
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 00:00
Sales are down here and at scores of businesses across this western Mexico city. But this recession has nothing to do with stock-index dives on Wall Street, the weak peso or collapsing banks. This is a narco-recession.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 00:00
The slaying of a rising political star is ascribed to his refusal to have any contact with drug traffickers.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 00:00
Scooped up by gunmen as she walked near her home, 12-year-old Alexia Moreno hardly had a chance. The gangsters were driving straight into a shootout. Within minutes, she was dead, shot in the head as she cowered in the back seat.
Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 00:00
The 'Ndrangheta of Italy's southern Calabria region rules the expanding European drug trade