Tijuana, Mexico News

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End of tunnel under construction was still 471 feet short of the U.S. border. TIJUANA a ' Mexican soldiers detained six suspects Saturday at the site of a tunnel near the U.S. border fence west of A.L. Rodriguez International Airport.

Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.

A case of rights abuses allegedly committed by the Mexican armed forces is coming up for a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights , where it joins a long list of accusations against the army in this Latin American country.

Officials in Mexico's capital said Monday they had identified four bound bodies found in a sport utility vehicle over the weekend with hand-lettered messages identifying the dead men as kidnappers.

November 2nd is DA a de los Muertos , the M exican form of All Souls' Day. It's also being taken advantage of by Mexican activists who blame U.S. immigration policy for border deaths.

TIJUANA a ' A suspected drug gang member was dead and 13 others were in custody Sunday following a confrontation with soldiers and municipal police in a semirural section of eastern Tijuana.

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

During a visit to San Diego in April, Pratik and Priti Chavda thought they'd slip over the border into Tijuana just to do a little shopping, have a quick meal and say they had made it to Mexico.

Authorities say a woman's body was found buried headfirst in a plastic container of cement in drug-plagued Tijuana.

MEXICO CITY: Mexican soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the United States and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said.

Mexican Military Finds Possible Smuggling Tunnel in Tijuana About 100 Feet South of U.S. Border TIJUANA, Mexico October 28, 2009 The DEA raids suspected drug traffickers of Mexico's La Familia cartel.

Rosarito city police pull over cars to be searched at the entrance to the city after a running gunfight between police in Tijuana and suspected members of organized crime.

Deputy Coroner Sergeant Charles Lucas says the incident occurred Friday night. Lucas says Olagario Maraz from Tijuana, Mexico was riding a Quad near Gordon's Well.

Men kidnapped from their homes in broad daylight. Bodies dumped along roadsides and in abandoned cars.

Three once-powerful members of Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in San Diego.

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.

Police raid on service shows that churches are no longer neutral observers. Jeremy Weber posted 10/21/2009 09:58AM T he bold interruption of a Sunday Mass to arrest a drug lord in August illustrated just how desperate Mexico's war on drugs has become - and how religion is no longer a neutral observer.

Veteran Latin Jazz Pianist is collaborating with Percussionist Javier Cabanillas in a new project being presented at El Dragon Bar in Tijuana Mexico.

Police in this northern Mexican border city found a man's nude, mutilated body hung by the neck from an expressway overpass Saturday, the second such grisly discovery in nine days.