Just a week after he topped the Forbes list of the world's richest people, Carlos Slim faces a sweeping new set of regulations in the telecommunications market which he controls almost exclusively.
In a rather ingenious method of international drug smuggling, two diplomatic bags were shipped from Mexico to the U.N. headquarters in New York containing about 35 pounds of cocaine.
The U.S. State Department has labeled Venezuela's consul general in Miami persona non grata and ordered her out of the country by Tuesday after some Mexican students said she'd expressed interest in their offer to hack U.S. government websites and nuclear plants.
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.
Now that robots have proven they can clear IEDs, tour the then-radioactive Fukushima nuclear power plant, and observe endangered tortoises, the next natural step for these overachievers is investigating dangerous drug tunnels.
U.S. authorities are building a politically explosive case that Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, finances itself through a vast drug-smuggling network that links a Lebanese bank, a violent Mexican cartel, and U.S. cocaine users.
After weeks of knife sharpening, Republican lawmakers grilled Attorney General Eric Holder at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, inquiring into a growing backlog of complaints related to Operation Fast and Furious and other pet issues.
One of Muammar Qaddafi's sons tried to flee into Mexico on a fake passport, that country says, but authorities there stopped him before he and his family could make it to a luxury home near Puerto Vallarta.
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.
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"
A closer look at the reassignments following the embarrassing scandal
Losing track of a ton of guns doesn't go over well
Extraordinarily brutal attack led to protests of governor and mayor
Mexico's president called it an "aberrant act of terror"
It's about the many exciting activities that await Americans south of the border
Their mother will be prosecuted in Los Angeles on parental abduction charges
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.
The military has discovered a 300-acre plantation in Baja California
A Mexican citizen executed on Thursday was not offered help from his consulate
Among the reasons: more attractive jobs at home and a shrinking migrant pool
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.
Insiders say Brazilian officials favor Lagarde
Also, mutton parts, baby-making and a prostitute-loving libertarian cartoonist
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