William Booth
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 00:00
The killings are the most sensational evidence that the legal profession along the Mexican border is under extreme stress, as lawyers are swept up in a vicious turf war -- between drug traffickers, street gangs, police and the Mexican military
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 00:00
Mexican army and law enforcement officials said that Meza confessed to disposing of more than 300 corpses
Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 00:00
The Televisa network news offices in the northern city of Monterrey were attacked Tuesday night in a commando-style raid by hooded gunmen
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
The decapitated bodies of 12 men were discovered early Sunday scattered in and around a state capital in southern Mexico
Friday, December 12, 2008 - 00:00
The paid assassins, known as sicarios, are rarely apprehended. Mexican officials say the commando squads probably travel from state to state
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
The attacks against journalists, which run from threats hissed on their cellphones to grenades lobbed into their newsrooms, form a new front in the larger war the drug cartels are waging