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 […]
On eve of Sheinbaum’s new security policy, Mexico reels from latest attacks
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters President Claudia Sheinbaum will present her strategy for confronting Mexico’s dire security situation on Tuesday amid a backdrop of high-profile violence including the brutal murder of a local mayor on Sunday that shocked the country. Sheinbaum, inaugurated as Mexico’s first woman president less than a week ago, is expected to unveil […]
Mexican mayor assassinated days after taking office
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The mayor of the capital of Mexico’s violence-plagued state of Guerrero was killed on Sunday less than a week after he took office, the state’s governor confirmed. Alejandro Arcos was killed just six days after he took office as mayor of the city of Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people […]
At least 22 reported dead as storm John dissipates over Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Residents in south-western Mexico on Saturday evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week, bringing deadly floods and landslides that left 22 people reported dead. In Guerrero, the worst-hit state and one of Mexico’s poorest, 18 people were killed, according to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nearly 100 dead or missing in Mexico from hurricane, food and water worries persist
Acapulso, Mexico Reuters The number of people dead and missing due to Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week, has risen to nearly 100, authorities in the state of Guerrero said on Monday. Otis battered Acapulco with winds of 266 kph on Wednesday, flooding the […]
Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab
Mexico City, Mexico AP Under a white tent on the street outside Our Lady of the Angels on a recent Sunday, Rev Adrián Vázquez led parishioners seated in pews and plastic chairs in celebrating 10 o’clock Mass, flanked by piles of rubble from the sanctuary left there by a deadly earthquake nearly five years […]
Mexico’s ex top prosecutor arrested on disappearance charges in missing students case
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexican former Attorney General Jesus Murillo has been arrested on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, Mexican officials said on Friday. The attorney general’s office said in a statement that federal police carried out an arrest warrant issued by a Mexico […]