Tropical Storm Ernesto Soaks Jamaica; Florence in Atlantic
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Tropical storm Ernesto is expected to soak Jamaica with three to six inches of rain and winds of 50 mph today as it barrels toward Central America. It is forecast to make landfall there Monday or Tuesday. The storm has lo…
Huge US-Mexico Drug Tunnel Discovered
DEA(YUMA, Ariz.) — Authorities in Arizona have discovered a lighted, ventilated cross-border drug smuggling tunnel more than two football fields long just steps from an official border-crossing checkpoint between Mexico and the U.S. Local and federal …
Mexico’s New President: Safety a Primary Focus
Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg via Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) — As he prepares to take over a country ripe with violence and plagued by drug wars, Mexico’s president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto is promising to focus first and foremost on making the stree…
Mexico’s President-Elect Faces Challenges
Daniel Aguilar/Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) — Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party is back in power for the first time in 12 years after Sunday’s presidential election, but it wasn’t the landslide that many had predicted.The party…
Young American Journalist Found Dead in Mexico City
ABC News(MEXICO CITY) — A young journalist interning with the Associated Press in Mexico City has been found dead.Twenty-two-year-old Armando Montano’s body was found on Saturday in the elevator shaft of an apartment building near where he was staying…
Mexico Drug War: More Families Buying Armored Cars
ABC News(MEXICO CITY) — Eighty million citizens in Mexico headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president at a time when drug war violence remains a crucial issue. Some of them likely took that journey in their own armored vehicles.More t…
Violence Rocks Mexico on Eve of Elections
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(MEXICO CITY) — On the eve of a presidential election, Mexicans awoke to headlines and gruesome photos of a car bomb blast that injured seven people.The images from Friday’s bombing in Nuevo Laredo, just a few miles away…
American Journalist Disappears in Mexico Drug Cartel Stronghold
Freelance Texas photojournalist Zane Alejandro Plemmons Rosales is shown in this undated photo. (Facebook)(NEW YORK) — A 30-year-old American photojournalist has become the latest reporter to go missing while covering Mexico’s drug war, after he left …
Mexican Government Admits Mistaken Identity in Guzman Drug Arrest
Miguel Tovar/LatinContent/Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) — The Mexican government has admitted that it mistakenly identified the man they arrested as the son of the nation’s most-wanted drug lord, the BBC reports. Officials on Thursday paraded a man they b…
Mexican Drug Lord Son Captured, Authorities Say
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Mexican authorities said today they captured the son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels. Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, a suspected high-level operative…
Mexican President Thanks Obama for Limiting Deportations
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages(LOS CABOS, Mexico) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon praised President Obama today for having the “valor and courage” to stop deporting hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants.“We believe that …
Whale Sinks Sailboat Off Coast of Mexico
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A California man was rescued after his 50-foot sailboat was struck by a whale while he was sailing alone about 40 miles off the coast of Mexico.The impact from the collision disabled the sailboat’s steerin…
Tropical Storm Carlotta Forms Off Mexico’s Pacific Coast
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A storm system off the Pacific coast of Mexico — strengthened from a tropical depression to a tropical storm overnight — is on track to become a hurricane when it makes landfall on Friday.As of Thursday morning, Tr…
US Warns of ‘Retaliation’ Against American Tourists in Mexico
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — American travelers to Mexico should beware of possible violent retaliation for this week’s arrest of alleged Zetas drug cartel associates and family members inside the U.S., the U.S. State Department has warned. Though the warni…
Star Student in Immigration Flap Will Be Home for Graduation
Frankfort High School(FRANKFORT, Ind.) — High school senior Elizabeth Olivas is coming home. After getting caught up on an immigration technicality in her native Mexico, the Frankfort Indiana High School homecoming queen will get to walk with her clas…
Drug Cartel Attacks U.S.-Owned Potato Chip Company
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(GUANAJATO, Mexico) — Mexican authorities arrested four alleged members of the Knights Templar drug cartel after a series of firebomb attacks on a potato chip company owned by the U.S. food company PepsiCo, the first attack on an…
Mexican Drug Cartels Make Fake Military Uniforms
JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) — Mexican authorities said Thursday that they have busted a factory on the U.S. border where drug cartels were allegedly manufacturing copies of Mexican military uniforms. The Mexican Navy said that an unnam…
‘El Loco’ Arrested After 49 Beheaded Bodies Found
YURI CORTEZ/AFP/GettyImages(MEXICO CITY) — Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed “El Loco,” AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico.When the M…
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Novelist Who Inspired Latin American Writing, Dies
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican writer whose powerful mix of deep political and social commitment with bold stylistic innovation made him among the most prominent figures in Latin American writing in th…
Gray Whales, Protected Off Mexico, May Face New Threat in Arctic
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Gray whales are starting to make a strong comeback in the Pacific thanks, in part, to Mexico’s aggressive eco-tourism program, where whale-watching is regulated, but a new threat is emerging some 10,000 miles a…