"Narco" taxi tours profit on Mexico drug war chaos
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Streetwise cabbies in northern Mexico are cashing in on the chaos of a violent drug war by whisking wide-eyed visitors about town in macabre tours of seized narco properties and famous murder scenes, Mexico City's Reforma newspaper reported on Sunday.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - A key hitman for Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel was arrested on Saturday in this crime-ridden border city, in another coup for President Felipe Calderon's clampdown on traffickers.
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Mexico gave the military salary increases of almost 50 percent on Monday to reward them for leading the fight against violent drug gangs.
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Brazen daylight killings by presumed drug smugglers just up the hill from Acapulco Bay are worrying business leaders that increasingly bloody drug wars will cripple Mexico's critical tourism industry.
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Brothers Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela made billions of dollars building Colombia's Cali cartel into the world's top supplier of cocaine during the 1990s. Now, they are likely to spend their elder years in a U.S. prison.
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Mexico said on Wednesday it will investigate whether its federal agents protected a Chinese-Mexican businessman tied to the largest seizure of drug cash in world history, while the businessman's lawyers told a Washington news conference they fear for their client's life if he is returned to Mexico.
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Two jailed drug bosses have joined forces to beat back a massive offensive by the Juarez cartel, sparking a bloody turf war that has rocked the U.S.-Mexico border, the resort city of Cancun and other key smuggling corridors across the country, Mexico's top anti-narcotics prosecutor said Thursday.
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Some everyday cold medicines in Mexico will be modified or require a prescription starting in September to stop drug gangs from using them to make illegal drugs.
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A driver suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border lost control of the car while fleeing federal authorities, causing a rollover crash that killed one passenger and injured seven others.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - Sinaloa, the northern Mexican state that spawned the country's most fearsome drug cartel, hopes to lure tourists to rustic cabins in a rugged area infamous for opium fields and violent kingpins.
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Seeking to crack down on widespread chaos and corruption on the streets, Mexico City on Friday introduced tougher traffic laws and incentives for police to stop accepting bribes.
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MEXICALI, Mexico  - Mexican drug gangs are  peppering the U.S. border with small shipments of illegal  narcotics in a tactic known as "shotgunning" to beat increased  security, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
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It has been about 10 years since Ricardo Espinoza Perez paid $450 to smugglers to help guide him from Mexico to a new life in the United States, where he worked to raise money to bring his wife and two small children across the border.
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The capture of the No. 1 cocaine kingpin, Diego Montoya, follows a string of recent successes against major drug traffickers in the South American nation.
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Looking at Mexico's opportunities can mean making profits while others nap.
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APATZINGAN, Mexico -- Thousands of troops rolled into a key Mexican drug stronghold yesterday to set fire to marijuana and opium fields and round up traffickers -- an initiative ordered by President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n to restore order in a region where smugglers have defied authorities with beheadings and large-scale drug production.
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Seventeen Mexican drug agents were picked up last week for alleged involvement in trafficking in Canc&#250;n.