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Mexico Arrests Suspected Drug Cartel Spy Ring Boss
 Mica Rosenberg
Mexican police on Tuesday arrested a woman on suspicion of overseeing a network of spies that tracked police for a powerful drug cartel in central Mexico, officials said.
Oil Debate Stirs Mexico Passions
 BBC News
Mexico has marked the 70th anniversary of the nationalisation of its oil industry amid a fierce debate over the future of state oil monopoly Pemex.
Deadly Winds Howl into Monterrey
 Sean Mattson
A violent wind storm with gusts up to 70 mph lashed this industrial city of 3.5 million Tuesday, killing at least one person, toppling countless billboards and blanketing the city in a grayish brown haze of sand and dust that eerily muted the sun.
Mexico Army Confiscates James Bond Truck from Gang
 Noel Randewich
Mexican soldiers battling a violent drug gang and corrupt local police confiscated a sport utility vehicle decked out with extras worthy of a James Bond movie.
Mexico Defends Court's Autonomy as Pressure Grows to Free Jailed Canadian
 Canadian Press
Mexico is defending the "autonomy and independence" of its courts as Ottawa turns up the pressure to free a Canadian woman imprisoned in Guadalajara for more than two years.
Alejandro Encinas Claims Party Leadership Win
 Miguel Angel Gutierrez & Catherine Bremer
A leftist firebrand who narrowly lost Mexico's 2006 presidential election took a step toward a political comeback on Monday when a close ally claimed victory in the main opposition party's leadership race.
Calderón's Oil Reform Faces Threat From Left
 Sean Mattson
The radical wing of the country's main leftist party appears to have won a party leadership election, which could deal a significant blow to President Felipe Calderón's ambitious plans for oil sector reform.
Mexico Left Picks Anti-Gov't Party Chief
 E. Eduardo Castillo
A former Mexico City mayor who favors a hard line against President Felipe Calderon's government will be the new head of the country's main leftist party, according to preliminary returns released Monday.
Meeting Between Foreign Ministers Steps Up Pressure to Free Jailed Chef
 Charles Rusnell
Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier will meet with his Mexican counterpart today in Washington to try find a resolution to the high-profile case of imprisoned Canadian Brenda Martin.
US Students Brave Mexico Despite Drug-War Threat
 Laurence Iliff
Fearless students from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas State and colleges across the country are injecting badly needed cash into fading resorts like Acapulco this spring break season.
Tensions, Complaints Mar Mexico Elections
 Associated Press
Moderates and hard-liners exchanged accusations of voting irregularities on Sunday as Mexico's main leftist party chose new leadership. The two front-runners for the Democratic Revolution Party's top job would likely take the party in sharply different directions.
Opposition Party May Tone Down Radical Voice
 David Luhnow
Mexico's biggest left-wing party faces a leadership contest this Sunday that has turned into a referendum on whether the party will cling to its confrontational and radical past or whether it will modernize and help Mexico to break out of its drift.
Body Count Mounts in Mexico Drug Wars
 Dudley Althaus
In perhaps a telling indication of how commonplace the bloodshed has become, neither a Guadalajara massacre nor the discovery of the mass grave in Juarez was treated as major news in the Mexico City press on Friday.
Baja Kidnapping Ring Busted, Mexican Authorities Say
 Sandra Dibble
Baja California law enforcement officials say they have dismantled an important kidnapping ring linked to the Arellano Félix cartel that was behind January's abduction of real estate agents active in selling coastal properties in Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.
Mexico Says Jailed Canadian Confessed
 Charles Rusnell
Mexican authorities are now claiming that a Canadian woman who has been imprisoned without trial for more than two years signed a statement in which she confessed to her alleged crimes. But Brenda Martin said she confessed to nothing.
Imprisoned Canadian Woman Makes Desperate Plea, Legal Challenge
 Canwest News Service
The latest legal manoeuvre in the saga of Brenda Martin came the same day the 51-year-old made a desperate, public plea to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to help get her out of a Mexican prison.
Gustavo Rivera Martinez Arrest Strikes at Arellano Cartel
 Antonio O. Garza
Mexican law-enforcement agents have struck another strong blow against narcotrafficking, with the March 11th arrest of Gustavo Rivera Martinez, the de-facto head of the Arellano Felix crime family, in San Jose del Cabo.
Mexico's Calderon Invited to Cuba, in Sign of Warming Relations
 Agence France-Presse
President Raul Castro invited Mexican President Felipe Calderon to Cuba, after Mexico's top diplomat announced a "new period" of good relations between the two countries, at the start of her visit.
Mexico Delays Deportation of Reputed American Drug Trafficker Over Citizenship Questions
 Associated Press
Mexican authorities said Thursday that the deportation of a U.S. citizen alleged to be a top member of a major drug cartel was in limbo after the man said he also has Mexican citizenship.
Backyard Body Count Up to 33 in Mexico
 Associated Press
Mexican investigators found 19 more bodies buried in the backyard of a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, increasing the tally of corpses found there to 33, officials said Thursday.
Mexico Congress Probes Cabinet Secretary
 Associated Press
Mexico's lower house of Congress on Thursday created a special committee to investigate allegations of corruption against Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, a confidant of the president who holds the government's second highest profile job.
Law-Office Shooting Kills 6 in Guadalajara
 Associated Press
Six people were shot and killed inside a private law office in central Mexico, state prosecutors said. It was not immediately clear whether they were attorneys.
'I Can't Take Any More,' Says Canadian Jailed in Mexico
CBC News
An Ontario woman who has languished in a Mexican jail for more than two years told CBC News on Wednesday that her endless imprisonment has her on the verge of collapse.
 Mexico: Students Weren't Training in FARC Camp
 Kevin G. Hall & Franco Ordonez
Mexico's attorney general on Wednesday disputed claims that Mexican university students who were killed alongside a South American rebel leader in a recent raid were in the jungle receiving bomb training from guerrillas.
US Leader of Tijuana Drug Cartel Arrested in Mexico
 Agence France-Presse
American Gustavo Rivera Martinez, considered by US drug and crime units as a main financial manager of the Tijuana drug cartel, was detained by police in the Mexican state of Baja California, authorities said Wednesday.
Paul Martin Meets with Imprisoned Canadian in Mexico
 Charles Rusnell
Former prime minister Paul Martin is meeting with Canadian Brenda Martin in the Mexican jail in which she has been imprisoned without trial for more than two years.
Calderon Agenda Dealt Pair of Setbacks
 Dudley Althaus
President Felipe Calderon's law and order image took a one-two punch Tuesday when the U.S. government criticized his country's human rights record and Mexico's Congress prepared to convene a corruption investigation of a key Cabinet official.
Mexican Cabinet Secretary Investigated
 Associated Press
Mexico's federal attorney general's office on Tuesday announced an investigation into allegations of corruption against Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, a confidant of the president who holds the government's second highest profile job.
Mexican Students Accuse Colombia
 Prensa Latina
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) students accused the Colombian government on Tuesday of killing five fellow students in the bombing of Ecuadorian territory and demanded their government take a firm position on the issue.
Mexico's Interior Minister Under Pressure to Quit
 Ken Ellingwood
Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño, a rising political star and the second most powerful official in Mexico, came under growing pressure to quit Monday over charges that he acted improperly by signing government contracts on behalf of his family's gasoline business while serving as a top energy official.
Loggers Destroying Monarch's Mexico Home
 Associated Press
Satellite photographs show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico, threatening the insects' habitat, a researcher said Monday.
Brenda Martin Loses Mexican Court Decision
 The Canadian Press
A bid to dismiss money laundering charges against a Canadian woman who has spent the past two years in a Mexican prison was denied Monday, her lawyer said.
Indians Gather to Save the Planet
 Mark Stevenson
Indians from Mexico, the United States and Canada gathered before dawn Monday to light incense, pray and sing in the shadow of ancient Mayan pyramids, asking the contaminated earth for forgiveness.
Mexico Probes Alleged Abuse Near Border
 Associated Press
Mexico's army is investigating allegations that soldiers performed degrading searches, made arbitrary arrests and stole private property south of the Texas border, the government said Sunday.
Family Identifies Body of 1 of 5 Mexican Students Thought Hit in Colombia Raid on Guerrillas
 Associated Press
Family members identified the body of a Mexican student thought to have been killed in a Colombian cross-border raid on guerrillas in Ecuador that sparked a regional diplomatic crisis last week, Mexico's Foreign Ministry said.
Mexican Soldiers Make Huge Drug Gang Arms Seizure
 Chris Aspin
Soldiers made one of the biggest ever arms seizures in Mexico after raiding a house in Tijuana, uncovering grenade launchers, machine guns and other weapons encrusted with gold figures of skulls.
Rebel Camp Deaths Spark Questions in Mexico
 Anahi Rama
Reports that a group of Mexicans may be among the victims of a Colombian strike on a rebel camp in Ecuador have ignited speculation in Mexico over whether the country harbors FARC sympathizers.
Mexico Senate Approves Judicial Reform
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Mexican senators on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence.
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