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Byline: Nacha Cattan US teamsters have long warned that inviting Mexican 18-wheel rigs onto American highways was like giving a free pass to violent drug traffickers to smuggle their goods [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan The US Coast Guard said Wednesday it will continue rescue efforts all day to find seven missing Americans whose boat capsized Sunday off Mexico's coast, as the [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan The political party that once ruled Mexico for 71 years and became known for its repressive tactics scored a major victory Sunday that may make it unstoppable [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan and Taylor Barnes In December, a UFO landed near Reyna Hinojos's house on Craddock Avenue, in an El Paso, Texas, neighborhood separated from Mexico by the Rio [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Tania Tamayo's family of farmers coughs up 800 pesos ($66) to local drug traffickers for every truckload of limes they ship from the violent state of Michoacan, [...]

Byline: Sara Miller Llana and Nacha Cattan The US-Mexico border is at the center of another gruesome scene in Mexico's drug war. Nearly 60 bodies were discovered by authorities this [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Marking one of the strongest statements yet against Mexican President Felipe Calderon's heavy-handed tactics in fighting the drug war, a United Nations report has called on the [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan When US Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual stepped down March 19 following public ridicule from Mexican President Felipe Calderon, it appeared a score between two outsized personalities [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan The fact that a documentary about Mexico's faulty judicial system was pulled from Mexican theaters has made it all the more appealing to moviegoers, helping turn it [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan An apology is not enough for Guatemalans deliberately infected with syphilis by a US medical team in the 1940s. Five months after the American taxpayer-funded medical experiment [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexico has long complained that drug gangs are terrorizing cities with high-powered weapons smuggled from the United States. But Mexican lawmakers are now up in arms over [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old police chief who made international headlines as the bravest woman in Mexico, was fired Monday, reportedly after fleeing to the United States [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan It's been two years since Obdulia de Paz's former boyfriend broke into her home and killed her mother and daughter with the help of his son, nephew, [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Smiles are likely to be all around when Mexican President Felipe Calderon meets with President Obama today at the White House. But simmering beneath the surface, the [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan A gun sold in Texas was used during last month's slaying of a US special agent in Mexico, officials said Tuesday, a revelation that is shifting scrutiny [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexican and US security experts, some with inside information, suspect the Zetas in the killing of an American special agent this week, a prospect that could complicate [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan A US federal agent was fatally shot Tuesday and another wounded in an attack on their vehicle that could raise pressure on Mexico to better protect US [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan, And Steven Bodzin Ernesto Vargas spends most of his days taking his 12-year-old son to and from junior high, helping him with homework, and cooking dinner while [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan and Stephen Kurczy Leaking secret US documents, it seems, is not the only way to peer behind the polished veneer of official diplomatic statements and scripted press [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan At least one US citizen was among three teenagers fatally shot this weekend in the violent border city of Juarez, Mexican authorities confirmed today, in the latest [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Men wheeling a giant catapult up to a wall, lobbing heavy objects to the other side, could be a battle scene out of The Lord of the [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed in a visit to Mexico Monday the importance of reforming Mexico's judicial system, a policy matter that has been overshadowed by [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan What would you do if you suddenly saw your face pictured alongside Mexico's most-wanted and most-feared drug traffickers? A factory worker from the Mexican state Baja California [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan It seems no one is safe from exposure on the Internet. Not even the most feared and secretive Mexican drug gangs. Mexico's federal prosecutor's office discovered on [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Three mayors have been assassinated in Mexico since the New Year, with hardly a blip on the media screen here. Contrast that with the nationwide mourning that [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan The Arizona shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and the ensuing debate over gun laws is resonating in Mexico, where drug trafficking gangs, often armed with weapons [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Residents of Mexico's famous resort city, Acapulco, awoke Saturday morning to 15 decapitated bodies strewn outside of a shopping center and another six young men found dead [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Immigrant rights groups are voicing strong opposition to legislation being proposed in several US states to deny citizenship to American-born children of illegal immigrants. In the latest [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexico's drug traffickers may be selling hard drugs to their northern neighbors, but they're exporting a far more dangerous product south of the Mexican border: their very [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Benilde Alvarez shut the lights and locked herself and her young daughters in their bedrooms. The machine gun fire from a shootout could be heard all night [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexico's armed forces killed one of the nation's top drug kingpins this weekend, but signs that the death will lead to more violence and turf battles have [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexican police worked Friday to identify the bodies of 18 corpses pulled from a mass grave outside Acapulco, after the grave's location was revealed in a video [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexican government officials locked in a bloody battle against drug traffickers are sighing relief that Proposition 19 in California failed at the ballot box yesterday. Mexican President [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Fourteen teenagers killed at a birthday party Friday. A 19-year-old and 12 others lined up against a wall and shot at a drug rehabilitation center Sunday. Two [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan A Mexican police commander investigating the death of American tourist David Hartley in Mexican waters was found murdered on Tuesday, authorities in the border state of Tamaulipas [...]

Byline: Sara Miller Llana and Nacha Cattan Twenty men, reportedly on vacation, are kidnapped from a hotel in the resort of Acapulco: No leads. Mayors are assassinated across the country: [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan The attack that allegedly killed the missing American tourist David Hartley on Sept. 30 while he was jet-skiing with his wife was not the first such incident [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Six days after Mexican pirates on Falcon Lake allegedly shot an American tourist, Mexican officials said they expected Tiffany Hartley, the wife of the deceased, to formally [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexican authorities say they are still combing Falcon Lake for an American tourist who was allegedly ambushed by Mexican pirates last week while jet skiing with his [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan A mob in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua killed two suspected kidnappers in the country's latest bout of vigilante justice. Townspeople in Ascencion, about 100 miles [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan The former Mexico sales chief for Duracell pulls out of his driveway at 6:30 a.m. with a flashing meter, ready for another day on the job. Jorge [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexico staged a handful of protests today against the new immigration law in Arizona, where up to 530,000 undocumented workers live and 88.6 percent of the Hispanic [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexico is gearing up for a possible influx of deportees after a controversial Arizona immigration law took effect Thursday, even as a US judge blocked key provisions [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan As if joblessness and crime weren't enough to trigger Mexican migration to the United States, a new study shows climate change could drive millions of Mexican farmers [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexico's government applauded an Obama administration lawsuit brought Tuesday against the Arizona immigration law. Some analysts here agree with the lawsuit that argues the Arizona law undermines [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan A leading gubernatorial candidate is gunned down by suspected organized criminals disguised as soldiers. A severed head is dumped near the house of a mayoral candidate. Voters [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan A strong earthquake shook Mexico's southern states early Wednesday causing people to evacuate buildings hundreds of miles north in Mexico City. Originally registered as a 6.4-magnitude temblor, [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Mexico's main opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appears poised for a major victory in upcoming gubernatorial elections as the president's party takes the fall for a violent [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan The leading candidate for governor of the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was gunned down Monday in one of the highest profile assassinations since [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan, Sara Miller Llana In response to the controversial new Arizona immigration law, Mexico is extending a program that helps citizens living illegally in the US return home. [...]