Ciudad Juarez, Mexico News Archives

Words can hardly convey how vicious, how over the top, Mexico's drug war has become.

There's more violence to report in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. Last night gunmen attacked a police vehicle outside a restaurant killing an official from the police intelligence unit and wounding three officers.

The U.S. Consulate in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez warned U.S. citizens that Mexican drug cartels were possibly planning random shooting attacks on cars Wednesday - the same day gunmen ambushed a top state police official.

A police commander and two other agents were shot down in a pool hall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Friday just three of the ten people murdered in the city that night.

Mexico's arrest of drug cartel suspects has become fairly commonplace. On Thursday, it was six suspected members of La Familia, based in Michoacan.

Olga Alanis stares at her daughter's photograph as if willing her to appear. On the table is a music box in the shape of a baby and crib - Monica's favourite when she was a child.

Ciudad Juarez passed the 2,000 mark in homicides Tuesday - setting a record for violence in the border city that has become ground zero in Mexico's war on drugs and cementing its place as one of the most murderous cities in the world.

EL PASO, Texas - Immigration authorities released a Mexican human rights official Wednesday, after detaining him last week as an asylum seeker even though he had not sought U.S. protection, his attorney said.

A violent and ongoing battle between two powerful drug cartels has pushed this northern border city's murder rate - already one of the highest in the world - to new records in 2009, the Mexican Justice Department reported Wednesday.

The alleged leader of the Barrio Azteco gang in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, has been named to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.

An attorney for a Mexican human rights official jailed by immigration officials says his client doesn't want asylum in the U.S. and wasn't seeking it when he crossed the border last week.

The bodies of three men who had been bound and reportedly tortured were found dumped outside a school being used as a polling place for a mayoral election Sunday, officials in the northern state of Coahuila said.

The hit men moved in on their target, shot him dead and then disappeared in a matter of seconds.

Do you start with the decapitated heads of police officers found in local ice cream coolers, the kindergarten kids threatened with mass kidnappings, the vigilantes who have emailed the media to prove they are serious about murdering "criminals," or do you just give up explaining it in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a mile from Interstate 10 and just down ...

Gustavo de la Rosa, head of the Ciudad Juarez office of the Chihuahua State Human Rights Commission in northern Mexico, was forced to flee to El Paso, across the border in the United States, and take refuge there for nearly a month, because of death threats related to his work.

A woman was beheaded in a residential area of Ciudad Juarez, and eight others died in the latest suspected drug attacks in north Mexico, local officials said today.

The new US ambassador to Mexico wrapped up a two-day tour of the border area battered by drug violence.

A man walks along the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico on June 29, 2007 in the Anapra area of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Unidentified assailants kidnapped and killed the top official of the border town of Palomas, across from New Mexico, on Thursday.

The electronics and medical device sectors are growing quickly in this region despite safety concerns.

At least five people have been shot to death in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to state prosecutors.

A gunbattle between gangs fighting for smuggling routes near Mexico's border with Guatemala has left seven people dead, Chiapas state prosecutors said Tuesday.

Tangled in the front line trenches of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's anti-narcotics campaign are the country's growing legions of addicts, who find themselves sought by gangsters as both customers and sometime targets of their violence.

Ed Vulliamy reports from the Mexican city where death squads roam the streets at night and criminal anarchy reigns Ciudad Juarez, 16 September The executioners burst through the gates of the Anexo de Vida drug rehabilitation centre at almost the exact moment that Mexico 's president, Felipe CalderA3n, and mayors across the country, including the ...

Two raids by security forces have netted the largest seizures of methamphetamine precursor chemicals in Mexico's history, federal officials announced Friday.

By Bernd Debusmann When Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, ordered 2,500 troops and federal agents into border city Ciudad Juarez 17 months ago to tamp down drug violence, the monthly murder rate ran at an average of 66.