Mexican President Felipe Calderon is launching a global public relations campaign to try to improve his country’s image and neutralise coverage of the violent drug war scaring away tourists and foreign investors. Calderon declared all-out war on...

A former homicide detective accused of becoming a top enforcer for a U.S.-born drug trafficker has been arrested in central Mexico, authorities said Sunday. Former state police detective Irvin Solano recruited hit men and procured weapons for Edgar...

A well-known businessman in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz was murdered along with his wife in an apparent attempted kidnapping, authorities said Wednesday. Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, a group of armed men intercepted Fouad Hakim...

Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses told The Associated Press on...

The bodies of a groom and two members of his wedding party were found in the back of a truck four days after being snatched at gunpoint as they left the church in this violent border city, officials said Tuesday. Family members of the victims said the...

Dozens of gunmen burst into a Holiday Inn and another hotel in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey Wednesday, searching from room-to-room and abducting at least six people, prosecutors said. Nuevo Leon state attorney general Alejandro Garza y Garza...

Continuous rains have struck Mexico’s southwest state of Michoacan for three days, killing at least 18 people, said the authorities on Friday. Twelve bodies were found buried in three different landslides in Ocampo town of Michoacan on Friday,...

Gunmen killed 13 people in a single day in the violence-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, state prosecutors said. Two of the dead were police officers. The Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office issued a news release late that said...

Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional. Mexico’s Roman Catholic clergy,...

The Rev. Habacuc Hernandez Beni­tez, a Roman Catholic priest in Guerrero, Mexico, knew the mountain towns of the southwestern state like the back of his hand. He made it his mission to seek young men for the priesthood, driving far and wide to find...