Tracy Wilkinson
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
Five high school students waiting for a bus were killed Wednesday when a pickup truck being chased by Mexican army forces careened out of control and plowed into them in the violent northern border city of Reynosa.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 00:00
The gangs charge what residents call a war tax, extorted from homes and businesses, down to the smallest fruit vendor. You don't pay, you get out. And if you don't go, you get killed.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 00:00
Authorities say they are now certain the thieves were after the truck, which they had planned to break down into parts, and not the radioactive material
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 00:00
There has been widespread concern that if the results in the presidential race are extremely close, or if the vote is seen as unfair, a wave of violence could follow.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 00:00
Michoacan, one of Mexico's most abundant agricultural regions, has become a state divided, riddled with fear and largely out of the national government's control
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 00:00
At least 25 bodies have been reported found in two clandestine graves, underscoring Mexico’s enduring problems of people who go missing and the dead who are never identified
Monday, November 11, 2013 - 00:00
Mothers of victims in Ciudad Juarez are furious after a court frees Israel Arzate. He says he was arbitrarily arrested, then tortured and forced to confess
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 00:00
Shortly after midnight, attackers armed with Molotov cocktails almost simultaneously disabled electrical substations in at least nine cities and towns in Michoacan.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 00:00
Five years and millions of U.S.-supplied dollars later, Mexican authorities are acknowledging they are still a long way from purging and improving local and federal police forces, among the most corrupt institutions in the country.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 00:00
Nestora Salgado led a town rebellion against crooks in Guerrero state, only to land in federal prison after making an arrest that some say overstepped boundaries.