Ciudad Juarez, Mexico News

Despite some ten thousand Mexican soldiers and federal police in Ciudad Juarez drug killings are on the rise.

A massive army surge has failed to calm raging drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the U.S. border that is at the heart of President Felipe Calderon's drug war.

An anti-kidnapping activist and a neighbor, both members of the pacifist Mennonite community in northern Mexico, were killed Tuesday by gunmen believed linked to a drug cartel, a local legislator said.

Scorched by a blistering desert sun, military troops near Ciudad Juarez form the frontline security cordon in a bitter battle against crime playing out in the heart of Mexico's bloody drug wars.

In the early morning hours of May 17, 2008, Willy Moya had just closed the V-Bar, one of several popular nightspots he owned in the Pronaf section of Ciudad Juarez, when a couple of friends wandered in and told him they were hungry.

The Foreign Trade Association has pursued increased efficiency in the federal cross-border inspection process since 1985 and assisted in bringing the first FAST Lane and Dedicated Commuter Lane programs on the U.S./Mexico border.

Mexican police on Tuesday found the remains of six people tortured and shot to death in a western state that is a focus of the government's war against drug cartels.

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More than one year after Mexican soldiers were deployed in Ciudad Juarez to combat organized crime and drug trafficking, the Calderon administration's military strategy is in crisis.

A spokeswoman for the state Children, Youth and Families Department said the agency is awaiting documents from Mexican authorities to see if a boy with Down syndrome found alone at the Santa Teresa port of entry is from Ciudad Juarez.

President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday the future of Mexican democracy is at stake in the government's fight against official corruption and organized crime, and he criticized politicians who he said want to return to the era when gangs were tolerated.

By Sophie Nicholson Mexico City - Mexico's drug war is creeping into the mid-term elections amid apprehensions that the country's drug cartels will use their money and clout to influence the outcome.

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A A A' Mexico has deployed 1,500 more troops to Ciudad Juarez following a surge in homicides in the border city related to the drug trade.

An anonymous tip-off alerted police to the bodies, which lay in an abandoned truck in a residential neighbourhood, Rodriguez said.

Gunmen tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient inside who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting in a drug cartel-plagued Mexican state Friday.

Many of the firearms fuelling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, says a new report by the Government Accountability Office released Thursday.

An 11-year-old far West Texas girl is among a group of people killed in shootout in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

LOOKING FOR WINDFALL: Guadalupe Martinez looks up at the bridge between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, hoping one of the people on it will drop him some money.

A historic June snowstorm hit homes in Mexican border cities today. As the United States went from analog to digital television transmissions, many Mexican viewers who've long watched broadcasts from just across the border lost access to their favorite programs.