Mexico creates special prosecutor post
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Mexico has created a new federal position to prosecute violence against women and human exploitation, as rights groups urge the government to do more to investigate the killings of women, especially along the U.S. border.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President-elect Felipe Calder&#xF3;n named a hard-line conservative for interior minister yesterday and lawmakers slapped and pushed one another in a deepening political crisis three days before Calder&#xF3;n takes power.
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MEXICO CITY The new head of the Mexican oil monopoly PetrÃ³leos Mexicanos was forced to deny corruption allegations Tuesday on his first day in the job, after local media reports alleged that he was a partner in a firm that rented property to the oil
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A Colombian court approved the extradition to the United States of one of the South American nation's most notorious paramilitary leaders on drug smuggling charges.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon, battling rampant organized crime, launched a wide-reaching justice reform plan on Friday to give police more power, protect witnesses and speed up court cases.
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Mexico extradited accused drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the United States on Saturday to face drug charges, federal prosecutors said.
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Mexico extradited accused drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the United States on Saturday, making him the first major Mexican drug lord to be sent north to face trial on drug charges.
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Felipe Calder&#243;n becomes Mexico's new president Friday, but faces fierce political opposition.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico replaced the federal police chiefs from each of the country's 31 states and the Federal District yesterday, pending polygraph and drug tests to determine whether they are on the right side of the law in the nation's foundering drug war.
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Felipe CalderÃ³n, who was declared MexicoÂs next president today, was born into a political family and has been working toward the office ever since.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a major figure in a Colombian cartel responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, the U.S. ambassador in Mexico said Friday.
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Mexico plans to put up $7 billion, to go with $1.4 billion offered by Washington, to fund a three-year crackdown on its violent drug cartels, the Mexican ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday.
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Gone are the days when Americans on the lam could look to Mexico as a refuge. Extraditions and deportations have risen sharply as U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials work closely together to bring suspected criminals to justice.
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In the latest twist in Mexico's war  on drug trafficking, a senior member of President Vicente Fox's  staff has been arrested over possible links with a drugs gang,  Mexico's attorney general said on Saturday.
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An electoral court will name   conservative Felipe Calderon to be Mexico's next president on   Tuesday, ending months of legal battles but not spirited   protests by leftists who say he stole a July vote.
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Mexican officials have issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. Marine suspected of killing his pregnant colleague, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday.
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A senior aide to the Mexican president is arrested on suspicion of leaking information to drug gangs.