Borderland Beat
Friday, February 15, 2013 - 00:00
Attacks on the medical sector have increased since 2012, and range from crimes such as assaults, death threats, motor vehicle theft, to kidnapping
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 00:00
Two more grenades were detonated in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Monday evening, -- one near a local college -- wounding one unidentified individual late Monday morning
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 00:00
A total of at least five armed suspects were killed in an armed encounter with a Policia Federal road patrol in Reynosa, Tamaulipas Monday
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 00:00
Current law permits Mexico's Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) or national attorney general to detain suspected criminals for up to 40 days without charge or trial
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 00:00
What the new focus on information could do is to create a situation where states that do have transparency laws will be reporting crime and appear to have a crime problem, while those that do not will appear to have less crime
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 00:00
A PR team from the Sinaloa Cartel managed to buy a ton of cocaine stored in a PGR, holding facility, acquired grenades from the Secretary of Navy, cartridges from the Army and information on investigations from SEIDO
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 00:00
Through his years of smuggling Pedro Antonio Bermudez Suaza amassed a fortune. When it was all said and done more than 150 million dollars in drug proceeds would be seized and a major broker of cocaine to the Sinaloa Cartel would cease to be
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 00:00
This morning several clashes broke out between suspected members of Los Zetas and Marina elements in Guadalupe and metropolitan area of the state capital.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 00:00
At a national conference yesterday, the Federal Attorney General Marisela Morales casually dropped a bombshell when was asked about the surge of violence.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 00:00
At this juncture, the Zetas' priority is to prevent the spread of information that would result in one or more of the following.