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s capture took place two weeks into a major federal offensive in the cartel...

Case comes amid fresh scrutiny of the methods state are taking to carry out lethal injections in the wake of national drug shortage Tom Dart ...

Tamayo, 46, executed in the face of political pressure from the Mexican government and the US State Department Tom Dart ...

McAllen police say two Mexican citizens were arrested at US-Mexico border in connection with Target security breach ...

Convicted murderer Edgar Arias Tamayo, due to die on Wednesday, was not told of possibility of Mexican consular help ...

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s government has pledged to take control of Michoacán state after days of fighting between vigilantes and members of one of the country...

t trust the government to do enough about it. So Castaneda joined a growing movement spreading through this region of south-west Mexico. The 20-year-old manual worker picked up a gun to join the vigilante groups that have over the past year turned the tables on one of the drug cartels that have terrorised Mexico over the past decade. "We hope the government will help us," Castaneda said, as he kept...

Edgar Arias Tamayo is due to die on 22 January but Mexico says failure to facilitate consular assistance violates international law Tom Dart ...

Health officials in the United States look to Mexico's new law as an experiment in curbing sugar consumption Sarah Boseley ...

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s federal government announcement of a new concerted effort to restore order to the Tierra Caliente, or Hot Land, region of Michoacán that in recent weeks has appeared on the verge of civil war after the vigilante movement there launched an effort to surround the regional capital, Apatzingán, which is considered a cartel stronghold. "It is not right that the government is going after us when we are...

Federal government steps into fight between Knights Templar cartel and vigilantes who have declared war on drug gangs ...

self-defence' groups trade gunfire with Knights Templar cartel in Nueva Italia in Michoacán state in fight over territory Hundreds of vigilantes in Mexico were involved in a gun battle with a drug cartel over the weekend in a fight to control territory. Members of so-called self-defence groups entered Nueva Italia in Michoacán state in an effort to liberate towns from the control of the Knights Templar...

A pair of apparently conjoined whale calves have been found dead off the coast of Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur in Mexico ...

Neill, then at Goldman Sachs, to show that western investors needed to take notice of what was happening in the post-cold war global economy. Robert Ward, of the Economist Intelligence Unit, linked Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt and Turkey but the Civets never really took off. Now O'Neill is championing the Mints, a name first coined by the fund managers Fidelity, for what he thinks will be the...

The twins were found alive by fishermen on the Baja California peninsula but lived only a few hours Fishermen in Mexico have found rare conjoined grey whale calves that died shortly after being born. Benito Bermudez, a marine biologist, says the whales were found alive in the Ojo de Liebre lagoon in the Baja California peninsula but lived only a few hours. Bermudez said they were linked at the waist,...

s audacious constitutional changes that open the way for more private sector participation in the crisis-ridden state-owned energy sector. For Pierpaolo Barbieri and Niall Ferguson, writing in the Wall Street Journal , the reforms put Mexico on the threshold of transforming itself "from Latin America's laggard into North America's new engine of growth". Mexican economists tend to be less upbeat. "The...

s growth has been weak since the 'free trade' deal was signed, and it missed out on the region's poverty reduction It was 20 years ago that the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico was implemented. In Washington, the date coincided with an outbreak of the bacteria cryptosporidium in the city's water supply, with residents having to boil their water before drinking...