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Americans wounded in Mexico ‘were CIA employees’
Two Americans wounded when their US embassy vehicle came under fire in Mexico were employed by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of an anti-drug task force, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The two were driving with a Mexican navy captain to a military training facility south of Mexico…
Mexico police held over U.S. embassy car shooting
MEXICO CITY — A Mexican judge ordered 12 federal police officers held for 40 days on Monday as prosecutors mull charges against them for shooting at a US embassy car and wounding two US government employees. The officers are being treated as suspects over Friday’s incident, when a sport-utility vehicle…
Mexico’s spy ‘bunker’ struggles to stem drug violence
Deep in a bunker in Mexico City, police intelligence analysts monitor live images from street cameras, radars and drones in a vast effort to bring drug cartels to justice. But despite the creation of this state-of-the-art Intelligence Center three years ago, Mexican federal police have struggled to stem drug trafficking…
Two U.S. embassy employees shot and wounded in Mexico City
Two US embassy employees were shot and wounded when their car came under fire south ofMexico City on Friday, an official from the attorney general’s office told AFP. “The two are from the US embassy,” the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that the shooting took place on a highway leading from Mexico City…
Fourteen killed across bloodstained Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Three brutal killings on Wednesday claimed at least 14 lives across Mexico, in the latest bloodshed of a years-long crime wave fueled by warring drug cartels. Just outside Mexico City, armed gunmen burst into a bar in the early morning hours and opened fire on the crowd,…
Are Mexicans about to vote for the return of the ‘perfect dictatorship’?
For weeks the sky over Mexico City has kept its inhabitants guessing – one moment it has been azure and sunny; the next an ominous grey vault of clouds belly full with rain. The downpours, when they come, whip flash floods across streets and topple trees. “At my age you…
Mexican boy recovering after doctors remove 33-pound tumor
A little boy in Mexico is expected to make a full recovery after doctors removed a tumor earlier this month that weighed more than their patient. Clocking in at 33 pounds, the tumor was so large that it was cutting off 2-year-old Jesus Gabriel’s oxygen supply. But after 10 hours…
Three police shot dead at Mexico City airport
MEXICO CITY — Three federal police officers were shot and killed Monday when they tried to arrest drug trafficking suspects at Mexico City’s international airport, officials said. Airport spokesman Jorge Andres Gomez said the incident took place around 8:50 am (1350 GMT) in the fast-food area of the airport’s Terminal…
Mexicans pay tribute to novelist Carlos Fuentes
MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of Mexicans bade farewell to late novelist Carlos Fuentes on Wednesday, carrying books and flowers as they filed past the casket of one of the Spanish-speaking world’s best-known writers. During a public ceremony at the grand Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, President Felipe Calderon…
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dead at 83
Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday aged 83, was one of the Spanish-speaking world’s best known writers, famous for his prolific output and his use of experimental language. President Felipe Calderon announced the writer’s death in a message on his Twitter account. The National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature confirmed he…
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