Tijuana, Mexico News

President Felipe Calderon and his drug war will get their biggest test of support yet when Mexico holds midterm elections Sunday amid growing frustration over rampant cartel violence and a shrinking economy.

Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world's second-biggest Catholic country.

A 19-year-old man was behind bars today on suspicion of fatally shooting a 21-year-old woman and wounding a man at an Encanto house party several months ago, then fleeing to Mexico.

It was announced Tuesday that Christopher Anthony Sanchez, a teenager wanted by the San Diego Police Department in connection with a March shooting, has been arrested in Tijuana.

Local cops are closely watching what U.S. media are calling one of the worst child- porn cases ever as it unfolds in Mexico.

His boss was beaten to death and dumped in an empty lot, his teeth and fingers missing.

An immigration activist who sought sanctuary in a Chicago church for a year before she was deported to Mexico in 2007 is running for a seat in Mexico's Congress.

"Mensa, tonta," said an intoxicated woman driving 75 miles per hour on a freeway at 11:30 on a Friday night, "que no miras que el dinero esta en frente de ti?" Stupid girl, foolish girl, can't you see that the money is in front of you? Lilly searched diligently through her mother's wallet and sorted out three hundred Mexican pesos.

A Canadian suspected of heading a North American pedophilia ring has been arrested in Mexico in possession of four million photographs and videos of children shown naked or striking suggestive poses.

A Mexican soldier patrols the area where drugs were found at the crafts market in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday.

Dear Mexican: You once asked why Mexican bands don't hit it big in the good old U.S. of A. I think the simple answer is that there are no Mexican Mouseketeers.

Convoys of Mexican army troops rolled into Juarez during the weekend even as the bloodshed continues to claim lives daily.

A A A' Mexico has deployed 1,500 more troops to the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, where homicides related to the drug trade have surged in recent weeks.

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

Child sex tourism continues to grow in Mexican northern border cities like Tijuana and Juarez, according to a U.S. State Department report.

Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside 20 frozen sharks, authorities said.

I write to you with a doubt that's similar to the one Incensed in Chicago felt a couple of weeks ago, when her friend couldn't believe that Mexicans worked in professional, white-collar jobs.

Posted June 14, 2009, 4:21 p.m. Edison James was a new friend of mine that had just been hired a week ago at my job.

Mexican customs officials have refused entry to 16 lifeguard towers donated by San Diego County lifeguards to their cross-border counterparts.

Posted June 13, 2009, 4:13 p.m. Tijuana being so close to the Control Culture of the United States, it is a great feeling when you enter Mexico - this timeless free uplifting feeling of noninterference once you cross over.