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Mexico to create police unit to search for missing

21 hours, 30 minutes ago

Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine days.

Mexico's Pena Nieto, seeking wide reforms, wants to limit power of governors

1 day ago

"The president has the governors on the run," said Joy Langston Hawkes, a political scientist at the Center for Research and Teaching of Economics, a Mexico City think tank.

Few convictions for Mexico's special prosecutor for crimes against journalists

2 days ago

Those cases involve three deaths - those of two reporters for a community radio station in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state in 2008 and the third of a journalist killed in Coahuila state in 2010.

On the crime beat in Mexico, danger lies in knowing too much

2 days ago

One editor in Coahuila state told of how he asked a reporter with links to a crime group to take an extended reporting trip to Chiapas in southern Mexico to get him away from the newspaper.

Mexico fires official in flap over influence abuse

2 days ago

"The issue of people trying to use wealth, power or political connections to get out of trouble, or get special treatment, is a longstanding gripe in Mexico.

Mexico, to attract U.S. retirees, may ease limits on landownership

9 days ago

Mexican legislators, seeking to make their country more attractive to U.S. retirees, may soon lift a major impediment for foreigners who want to own a piece of Mexico's Pacific or Caribbean coasts.

Mexico seeks easier foreclosures, cheaper loans

9 days ago

Critics warned it could launch a wave of foreclosures like those seen in Spain and the United States, while supporters said it is needed to spur banks to lend to Mexico's credit-starved businesses.

Correction: Mexico-Gas Explosion story

9 days ago

Mexico has allowed trucks to travel highways with loads of up to 80 metric tons and lengths exceeding 100 feet, compared to a U.S. limit of 80,000 pounds, or 40 tons, on interstate highways.

4 investigators go missing in northern Mexico

9 days ago

Authorities in northern Mexico say three police officers working for Interpol in Mexico and a federal investigator have been missing since Monday.

Mexico proposes making loans cheaper

10 days ago

But Finance Secretary Luis Videgaray said Wednesday that Mexico's banks are now solid, and need incentives to lend more.

North Richland Hills teen taken to Juarez, Mexico, met kidnapping suspect on the...

12 days ago

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS - A 14-year-old girl met a suspected child predator on the Internet and then left with him to Mexico before the two were located by authorities last week, police said Monday.

Mexico: journalist killings go largely unpunished

15 days ago

Mexico's governmental rights commission says 84 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, and 20 more have disappeared since 2005.

Mexico detains Central America, India migrants

15 days ago

Eight of the Indian citizens, including two minors, were being transported in a truck near Mexico's border with Guatemala when they were detained.

Obama: Security relationship with Mexico to evolve

15 days ago

The two leaders met Thursday at Mexico's National Palace on the first day of Obama's three-day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica.

Obama: Immigration important for US-Mexico trade

15 days ago

President Barack Obama says there's another reason it's important to overhaul the U.S. immigration system: It's the amount of business conducted between the United States and Mexico.

Obama heads to Mexico to talk trade

16 days ago

"We really see Mexico as a country that's on the rise," said Ricardo Zuniga, senior director for the Western Hemisphere on the White House National Security staff.

Mexico seizes father-in-law of Sinaloa drug cartel chief on eve of Obama visit

17 days ago

Authorities on Tuesday captured the father-in-law of the powerful chief of the Sinaloa Cartel, chalking up a victory against crime in a week in which President Barack Obama is to travel to Mexico.

Mexico detains father-in-law of cartel boss Guzman

17 days ago

Coronel was in charge of smuggling marijuana for the Sinaloa drug cartel across the Mexico-Arizona border, Sanchez said.

Mexico ends open access for US security agencies

18 days ago

Mexico says is it ending the unprecedented open relationship with U.S. security agencies that developed in recent years to fight drug trafficking and organized crime.

Mexico's president gathers power, pushes reform

60 days ago

He arrested the most powerful woman in Mexico, leader of the largest union in Latin America, on allegations of corruption that previous presidents saw but were too compromised to tackle.

Study: 250,000 U.S. guns smuggled into Mexico every year

60 days ago

Mexican officials have long blamed lax gun laws in the United States for the availability of weapons in Mexico, which has only one gun store and considers gun ownership a privilege, not a right.

253,000 U.S. guns smuggled to Mexico annually, study finds

61 days ago

Mexican officials have long blamed lax gun laws in the United States for the availability of weapons in Mexico, which has only one gun store and considers gun ownership a privilege, not a right.

Mexico vigilante group looking to go national

64 days ago

Rather, Bruno Placido said, his group is seeking to form a national movement with other "self-defense" groups that have sprung up throughout Mexico to fight crime fueled by drug cartels.

Mexico's president proposes reforms to promote competition in TV, telephone...

67 days ago

The reforms would give Mexico the tools to take on multibillionaire telephone tycoon Carlos Slim Helu and Televisa CEO Emilio Azcarraga, independent observers said.

Mexico moves against TV, telephone tycoons

68 days ago

Current rules have allowed the world's richest man and the largest Spanish-language media empire to dominate Mexico's telephone and television markets.

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