Mexico Murders

• Violence rises in Mexico as number of bodies found in north reaches 30

  The report came the same day that two dozen gunmen ambushed the Mexico City police chief, firing on his armoured vehicle and killing two members of his security detail.

  World

  Jun 26, 2020
  
• At least 15 killed in grisly Indigenous Mexican village attack

  State prosecutors in the state of Oaxaca said the bodies of 13 men and two women were identified as victims of the attacks over Sunday night and Monday morning.

  World

  Jun 22, 2020
  
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• Police treatment of 7-year-old girl’s murder in Mexico sparks calls for justice

  Indignation grew after some local media published horrific photos of the skinned corpse, apparently leaked by city police officers.

  Crime

  Feb 17, 2020
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• Murders of Americans in Mexico shows ‘no line drawn in the sand’ during drug war

  There was a time when the violence of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war shocked Americans, but barely touched them.

  World

  Nov 7, 2019
• Funerals begin for 9 Americans killed in Mexico cartel attack

  “It was a massacre, 100 per cent a massacre,” said the sister of one of the women killed.

  World

  Nov 7, 2019
• Mexico set another record for murders with 33,000 cases in 2018

  Mexico broke its record for a second straight year with more than 33,000 murders in 2018, amid rampant violence and killings linked to drug cartels.

  World

  Jan 22, 2019
• Bloody Christmas in Mexico after decapitations, shootings

  Western Mexico's plague of violence continued on Christmas Day with the discovery of six decapitated heads in one state and the slaying of seven people in another.

  World

  Dec 25, 2016