William Booth
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
The Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 illegal crossers along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, numbers not seen since Richard Nixon was president
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Human rights activists accused Mexico's military and police Wednesday of engaging in widespread torture, including the use of cattle prods and waterboarding, in President Felipe Calderon’s U.S.-backed war against crime mafias and drug cartels.
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is the boss of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel and the drug war's most-wanted man. U.S. and Mexican officials say he's hiding in the Sierra Madre mountains of northwest Mexico
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
Guzman is the single largest supplier of illegal drugs to the United States, and though he is in hiding, he is not on the run
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 00:00
Since President Felipe Calderon ordered his troops into the streets in late 2006, the acreage dedicated to marijuana farming has nearly doubled in Mexico
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 00:00
Texas journalists have been frustrated in their attempts to assess the operations undertaken by the famed Texas Rangers, who have produced no arrest or seizure statistics that would show whether the operations are effective
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 00:00
Top Mexican security officials said Thursday that there is no evidence that true paramilitary groups are operating in Mexico, countering video boasts by a shadowy group of masked men
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 00:00
Two Web sites that report on criminal activity and drug cartels were named and threatened
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 00:00
A video and series of photographs showing the brother of Monterrey's mayor receiving bundles of cash at a casino days before the massacre suggest its origins might lie in the old, familiar networks of corruption that have long plagued the country
Monday, August 29, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican law enforcement officers are increasingly bolstering these high-profile "perp walks" with edited video clips of the accused confessing their crimes on camera.