Sinaloa, Mexico News

Mexico decried Forbes magazine's decision to name the country's most-wanted drug lord to its "World's Most Powerful People," calling it an insult to the government's bloody struggle against drug cartels.

Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico - to its list of the 67 "World's Most Powerful People" on Wednesday.

Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four, authorities said Tuesday.

Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico's drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor.

Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin.

Mexican vocal duo Miguel y Miguel was among the first conjunto bands to emerge from the Angostura, Sinaloa area, a region typically renowned for its rich Norteno and Banda musical traditions.

LONDON, ENGLAND, November 05, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Russell Bedford Mexico has continued its expansion with the addition of a new firm to represent the national network in Culiacan, Sinaloa.

Tejano singer Graciela Beltran is widely known as one of regional Mexican music's most influential female voices.

A Mexican citizen accused of being the leader of a drug trafficking organization has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison, authorities said.

Reporting from Mexico City - Los Tigres del Norte, Mexico's superstar norteno band, abruptly canceled its participation Wednesday in a major awards show after it was barred from performing a song critical of the government's campaign against drug cartels.

The leader of a Mexican farmworkers' organization and 14 other people were killed in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora, an official said Saturday.

Amidst growing concerns of global food shortages, scientists continue to push the frontiers of genetically modified foods in an attempt to head off the looming crisis.

In what authorities are calling the largest single operation in the United States against a Mexican drug cartel, the Justice Department announced Thursday it has struck a major blow against a violent gang with quasi-religious and Robin Hood overtones.

Miguel Angel Caro-Quintero, age 46, a resident and national of the Republic of Mexico and a reputed member of the Sonora Cartel, pled guilty today to charges of marijuana trafficking, United States Attorney David Gaouette and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Sweetin announced.

Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - With a gilded, 4-foot statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe tucked under his arm, Jose Espinoza clambers up the Italian-marble staircase, past the Jacuzzis and gigantic Corinthian columns, to a domed chapel inside the ornate mansion of a particularly successful Sinaloa "farmer." Espinoza installs the Virgin in her ...

A couple of years ago, there was some hope that the scourge of meth addiction, which was especially bad in rural America, might dissipate.

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

Tropical Storm Rick hit Mexico's Pacific coast just north of the resort of Mazatlan on Wednesday, toppling trees and signs after sparing Los Cabos on the Baja California peninsula a direct blow.

Rick had been the strongest hurricane in the eastern North Pacific region since 1997, with winds of 180 mph during the weekend, and it kicked up high waves hundreds of miles from its center that killed at least two people.

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