Mexican federal officials say marine special forces closed in on drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in the Durango-Sinaloa mountain region last week but that he slipped away, injuring himself in the leg and face because he fell while fleeing.
Grupo Rev plans to rake in the pesos this Halloween season with its newest ensemble of latex masks and prison attire that resembles the man who for years trafficked cocaine to the United States, shipped methamphetamines to Canada and distributed ecstasy to as far off as Europe.
New surveillance footage of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's July 11 escape featured for the first time audio from the maximum-security prison cell near Mexico City.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico for killing a man after he was allegedly contacted on Facebook and offered $1,900 to commit the crime, authorities said.
While Mexican prosecutors declared last year that 43 missing students were incinerated at a landfill, official documents show one gang suspect testified that at least nine were slaughtered elsewhere.
Mexico's attorney general published online on Sunday the 54,000 pages of documents from the much-criticized investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 students.
MEXICO CITY – Parents of 43 students who disappeared last year began a 43-hour hunger strike on Wednesday, a day before meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto ahead of the case's one-year anniversary.
Protesters demanding justice for 43 missing students and their families clashed with police and torched a truck in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero on Tuesday, just days before the tragedy's first anniversary.
CAIRO, Egypt – Mexico's foreign minister headed for Cairo Tuesday with relatives of some of her country's eight tourists mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces, demanding an urgent inquiry into an "unjustified attack."
Mexico called on Egypt Monday to swiftly investigate why a group of tourists were mistakenly targeted in what witnesses described as an air strike that killed at least two Mexicans.
