A disturbing video leaked by Mexican drug cartel Los Tlacos showed its henchmen forcing rival gang members to line up before they were executed in Mexico.
The governor of Morelos state in Mexico has taken over the local police force in 15 towns and cities after the assassination of Temixco City's mayor last Saturday. Mayor Gisela Mota was shot and killed at her own home less than a day after being sworn into office.
Former mayor of Jalisco state city of Cocula has been charged with ties to organized crime. The former mayor of the Mexican city of Cocula has been charged with ties to organized crime.
At least some of the 43 Mexican students who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances were not incinerated at a landfill but killed in a different location in the state of Guerrero, one gang suspect claims in his testimony.
Investigators on the case say that Mexico has yet to respond to a request to interview soldiers over the disappearance of the students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College a full three months after the request was made.
Thousands of protesters marched to the federal elections office in Mexico City on Thursday to mark the six-month anniversary of the disappearance of 43 missing college students in northern Guerrero, a notorious gang- and drug-ridden southwestern state in Mexico.
The body of a missing female mayoral candidate was found decapitated on Wednesday in Guerrero, a notorious gang- and drug-ridden southwestern state in Mexico.
Mexican police have arrested last Friday a member of a criminal drug gang linked with the murder of 43 student teachers in the southern city of Iguala last September
Tests have identified the remains of one of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico on Sept. 26. Tests have identified the remains of one of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico on Sept.
Violent protests erupted Wednesday in the capital of the Mexican state of Guerrero over the still unsolved Sept. 26 disappearance of 43 students in the town of Iguala.
A week after the governor of a Mexican state, where 43 students disappeared after a day of violence, resigned, the acting governor has said there may be signs the students are alive.
Mexican officials have arrested four cartel members they suspect are involved in the kidnapping of 43 students who have been missing since September and are feared to be dead.
Mexico's attorney general is accusing the Iguala mayor, his wife and the local police chief to be behind the forced disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero.
Local police suspected of ties to organized crime Mexican federal police replaced local police and took control of 13 cities in southern Mexico amid allegations of connections to organized crime and a possible link to 43 missing students.
Students are feared to be among those found in a mass grave Two gang hit men admitted to Mexican authorities that they killed 17 of 43 students that had been missing in southern Mexico for a week, after 28 bodies were found in a mass grave.
