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Operation Knockdown: FBI raids Texas gang

WASHINGTON — FBI agents and police swooped Thursday on suspected members of a gang thought to be involved in the slaying of three people linked to the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an official said. Some 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers launched raids early Thursday in…

Mexicans take to Juarez streets for ‘March of Anger’ against drug war

Over a thousand people took to the streets of Ciudad Juarez on Sunday to protest the city’s record-setting crime wave, which civil rights groups say is made worse by the presence of some 6,000 Mexican soldiers. “The army’s presence is anti-constitutional and violates citizens’ rights. That’s why we’re asking them…

Drug cartel hitmen suspected in mass teen slaying

Hitmen working for a drug gang are the main suspects in the weekend slaying of 16 young partygoers in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, an official said Tuesday, as families prepared to bury their dead. Some 15 gunmen opened fire on a party packed with teenagers in the early hours of Sunday,…

Gunmen murder 13 ‘youngsters’ in violent Mexican border town

Gunmen drove up to a house where a high school party was in full swing and opened fire killing 13 people and wounding 17 others, the city public safety agency said Sunday in Mexico’s murder capital, Ciudad Juarez. Most of the victims were “youngsters,” said the Chihuahua state attorney general’s…

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