Stories about drug-related violence in Mexico are so commonplace that even ever-more-gruesome details seem to get little more than a glance from Americans. A look at tourism data suggests that it's also not keeping them from visiting.
On Monday, the Mexican navy announced the capture of a suspected Zetas cartel leader who has his fingerprints on everything from jail breaks to the murder of American jet-skier David Hartley in 2010.
Mexican police announced they've arrested one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the nation, the second major bust of a cartel leader this month.
Mexican authorities announced the arrest of another cartel leader on Tuesday evening, but we're just hoping they actually have the right guy this time.
This is slightly embarrassing. Mexican authorities celebrated the arrest of a man they claimed to be the son a powerful drug cartel leader on Thursday, but then admitted they were wrong and had actually arrested a car salesman.
The Pope makes his first journey to Latin America with a three-day trip to Mexico. Next stop: Cuba.
Mexican troops seized 15 tons of methamphetamine in a western state of Mexico, the Associated Press reported Thursday, which if sold in the U.S. would be worth $4 billion.
The Mexican military has been trying and failing for months to bring down a jerry-rigged radio system that the brutal Zetas cartel uses to run both its drug business and its related killing sprees.
There are no survivors after a helicopter carrying seven Mexican officials and a pilot crashed into a hillside just south of the country's capital.
Authorities found the mutilated body of yet another blogger, the fourth in the past three months, who was executed by the drug cartels in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo.
The hacktivist collective Anonymous is backing down from its threats to target the notoriously violent Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas.
Bodies found tortured with a warning against "funny things on the internet"
By one count, at least 42 journalists have been murdered there in the past half decade
Admitted to organizing over 1,500 killings to Mexican police.
A Mexican judge gave the young U.S. citizen the maximum sentence
The military has discovered a 300-acre plantation in Baja California
On increasing drug violence, millionaires on food stamps, and exiting Afghanistan
Violence in the Mexican drug wars is said to have reached new extremes
A new Senate report claims that 70 percent of guns used in Mexico come from the U.S.
On fixing Mexico's judicial system, keeping troops in Iraq, and focus in Afghanistan
A look at the issues dividing the two countries and some potential solutions.
Reporters home in on the arrest of Texas-born Edgar Valdez-Villareal
Two Americans, one pregnant, are killed in Juarez
War-torn Ciudad Juarez yearns for the return of 100,000 self-exiled residents, and a resurrection
The unprecedented violence suggests the government is battling more than mere drug cartels
Why has America's war on drugs been so unsuccessful?
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