WASHINGTON (AFP) - US authorities charged 35 Mexican gang members with murder, drug smuggling and other crimes Wednesday, including 10 accused in a deadly 2010 shooting at the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez.
MEXICO CITY – Mexicans took to the streets in their hundreds to protest a staggering surge in drug-related violent crime nationwide that claimed at least 45 lives in one weekend.
CIUDAD JUAREZ -- Gunmen burst into a party early Saturday and shot to death 12 young people and wounded at least 10 others in this Mexican border city's third massacre this year, police said.
Mexican authorities say that police in Ciudad Juarez have captured five alleged drug gang members suspected in the killings of two federal officers, including one whose body was hacked to pieces.
Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and allowed them to use official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people last week, prosecutors said Sunday.
CIUDAD JUAREZ -- Gunmen burst into a party early Saturday and shot to death 12 young people and wounded at least 10 others in this Mexican border city's third massacre this year, police said.
Mexican authorities say that police in Ciudad Juarez have captured five alleged drug gang members suspected in the killings of two federal officers, including one whose body was hacked to pieces.