Insecurity created by organized crime in Mexico forced the closure of more than 160,000 companies in 2011 alone, according to the country's employers confederation Coparmex.
MEXICO CITY — Some 12,000 people died in drug-related violence in 2011 in Mexico and around 50,000 have been killed since the start of President Felipe Calderon's crackdown on drug gangs in 2006, media reported Monday.
MEXICO CITY — Mexican security forces have captured a regional leader of the Zetas drug gang who was on a list of the country's 37 most dangerous criminals, a statement said Monday.
LOS ANGELES -- Speaking to the annual Drug Policy Alliance conference on Friday, Mexican poet and social justice leader Javier Sicilia blamed "the 1 percent" for the brutal cartel violence that has gripped his country, and urged drug reform activists to stand with "Occupy Wall Street" in criticizing America's economic model.
The hacker activist group "Anonymous" said this weekend that it may begin revealing the names and addresses of individuals who work for the Zetas drug cartel, in hopes that the Mexican government would step in and arrest them.
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon has provoked a dispute with the main opposition party, the PRI, by alleging that it might consider deals with drugs gangs if it won the presidency next year.
