Shootout in Mexico’s Sinaloa state kills 19, local cartel leader arrested
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters A shootout near the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state killed 19 suspected gang members, while one local cartel leader was arrested, Mexico’s defense ministry said on Tuesday, as intra-cartel violence intensifies. The deadly altercation on Monday took place about 11 kilometres outside the Sinaloa capital of Culiacan, when a group of […]
Mexico’s new security strategy to focus on strengthening police, intelligence
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexico’s new government on Tuesday presented its plan to combat violence and crime, vowing to strengthen the National Guard police force and boost intelligence gathering in a bid to reduce murders, kidnappings and extortion. Speaking at President Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning press conference, Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch outlined a four pronged […]
The Long Read: One day, their children didn’t make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers’ search for them
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on the work of Uniendo Esperanzas or Uniting Hope…
Mexican families flee to Guatemala to escape violence
Guatemala City, Guatemala/Mexico City, Mexico Reuters More than 500 people in southern Mexico have fled to neighbouring Guatemala this week amid armed clashes between criminal groups fighting over drug trafficking routes and other crimes, authorities from both nations said on Thursday. The displacements began this week, according to reports from the Guatemalan Migration Institute (IGM), […]
Abducted retired Catholic bishop who mediated between cartels in Mexico is located, hospitalised
Mexico City AP A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday. The church leadership in Mexico said in a statement earlier that Monsignor Salvador Rangel, a bishop […]
Essay: Mexico’s slow slide towards vigilante violence
In an article first published on The Conversation, AMELENDU MISRA sounds a warning about the prevalence of mob justice in today’s Mexico…
Mexican church officials have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels
Mexico City, Mexico AP Roman Catholic churchmen have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels whose turf wars have blooded the state of Guerrero in southern Mexico, a priest said last week. It is the latest in a series of attempts by bishops and priests to get cartels to talk to each other in hopes […]
Catholic bishops in Mexico say they negotiated for possible peace accord with drug cartel leaders
Mexico City, Mexico AP Four Roman Catholic bishops met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord, one of the bishops said, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he approves of such talks. The revelation by Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, José de Jesús González Hernández, in remarks at […]
In Mexico, mothers of the missing turn to drones to look for unmarked graves
Guadalajara, Mexico Reuters Maria Aguilar has been searching for her son for over a decade. She, like thousands of Mexicans whose loved ones are missing, has spent countless days scanning vast tracts of barren land for clues, in the hope of finding his remains. Now Aguilar and the “missing persons” collective she founded will be […]
Mexico high schoolers take up arms after village kidnappings
Acapulco, Mexico Reuters A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as young as 12 to join its ranks, the latest sign of how some parts of the country are struggling to cope with organised crime. Armed with rifles and sticks, and with their […]