Tag: Mexico

At least 17 people were killed, including 10 guards, during an attack against the Ciudad Juarez prison on Sunday, which resulted in the escape of Los Mexicles gang leadership and at least 25 other gang members. Mexican officials reported that at around 0700 local time, gunmen in armored vehicles assaulted...

At least 18 people were killed, including a city mayor, following a gunman attack on a city hall meeting in San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, Mexico. According to authorities, gunmen stormed the city hall on Wednesday during a meeting, killing mayor Conrado Mendoza, his father and former mayor Juan Mendoza, as...

Last Tuesday, Mexican federal authorities and National Guard forces carried out a raid against cartel members of La Familia Michoacana (LFM) in the municipality of Texcaltitlan, Mexico. According to Mexican media, 11 cartel members were killed and another 10 were detained. The raid in and of itself was nothing...

Earlier this month, the indigenous Zapatista communities of Nuevo San Gregorio and Moisés Gandhi were displaced following a wave of aggression from the corporate paramilitary Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO). The paramilitary not only occupied the land and drove out its indigenous population, it also destroyed...

Mexico won't be taking part in the international pile-on to sanction Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said, he seeks to keep his country on peaceful terms with all nations, RT reported. "We are not going to take any sort of economic retaliation because we want to maintain...

At least 54 people are dead and over 100 others were left wounded after a tractor trailer smuggling Central American migrants overturned and crashed into the base of a bridge in #Chiapas, #Mexico. The truck was said to have been speeding at the time of the crash, which ripped open the...