Isel Rojas put his dream of leaving Cuba on hold when the United States ended a generous immigration policy for island residents. But watching coverage of migrant caravans heading from Central America toward the United States on Cuban television (...)
Awwal 17, 1432 H/Feb 20, 2011, SPA -- Legislators in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua have asked federal authorities to ban a violent video game based on the drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez, according to AP.
About 6,000 people have died (...)
Authorities say gunmen have killed six people at a park in the besieged border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to AP.
Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Carlos Gonzalez says the gunmen arrived at the park in the Francisco I. Madero (...)
Hijjah 30, 1431, SPA - Mexican police say armed commandos attacked two drug rehabilitation centers in this border city across from El Paso, Texas, killing four people and wounding five.
Municipal police spokesman Adrian Sanchez was quoted as saying (...)
Gunmen ambushed two police vehicles at a busy intersection in Ciudad Juarez on Friday, killing seven officers and a 17-year-old boy who was passing by, authorities said.
Chihuahua state spokesman Enrique Torres Valadez said six of the police (...)
Tens of thousands of Mexicans are fleeing drug violence on the U.S. border in an exodus that is decimating a large city and threatening to leave a major manufacturing area short of skilled workers, according to Reuters.
Up to 200,000 people have (...)
Suspected drug hitmen burst into a party and killed 13 high school students here on Sunday, the latest massacre in one of the world's deadliest cities, the Mexican army said.
Gunmen jumped out of sport utility vehicles and fired at the students, (...)
Suspected drug hitmen burst into a party and killed 13 people, most of them teenagers, on Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, the latest massacre in one of the world's deadliest cities, Mexican media said, according to AP.
Gunmen jumped out of sport utility (...)
Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers earlier this month in Ciudad Juarez on the northern Mexican border, AP reported.
Police said the men are members of the Sinaloa (...)
Mexico has deployed 1,500
more troops to the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez,
where homicides related to the drug trade have surged in
recent weeks, AP reported.
The extra soldiers will begin patrolling the city Monday,
said Enrique (...)
Gunmen have killed six young men at a family party in the gang-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, AP reported.
A spokesman for the regional Attorney General's Office, Alejandro Pariente, said the men between the ages of 20 and 25 were (...)
Gunmen shot and
killed a police chief of this Mexican border city early on
Saturday, police said, the sixth high-ranking officer killed in
the country in less than a week.
Juan Antonio Roman was shot outside his home as he stepped
out of his (...)
Ten alleged gang members were convicted in the killings of 12 women, some of the hundreds
who have been found slain in this border city in recent
years.
Four bus drivers, all thought to be loyal to a criminal
gang known as "Los Toltecas," were (...)