Mexico City Politics News

The overnight massacre of 15 civilians in Mexico's border town of Ciudad Juarez comes in the aftermath of protests by hundreds of citizens who demanded government action against the exacerbating bloodshed earlier in the week. Amongst Sunday's victims were bodies...

Terry Browne to Consuelo Valencia-Russo's killers, July 18, 2009. The trail to catch these alleged killers was not only cold but ended at the arrivals exit of the airport in Mexico City. In fact just hours after brutally murdering Consuelo...

Inspired by grief and driven by anger, about 250 Mexicans descended on the Canadian embassy in Mexico City on Thursday to protest the recent murder of a Mexican activist who opposed a Canadian mine in the south. The protesters, mostly...

Kidnap victims freed from a rehab center in Mexico City said they were snatched from the streets and held in slave-like conditions -- beaten, robbed and forced to work 16 hours a day making shopping bags and clothes pins. Some...

of the money pledged -- just $24 million of $1.3 billion appropriated -- to help Mexico in its bloody three-year-old battle against the drug cartels that have turned parts of country into a war zone and left 15,000 dead, according...

About 250 flag-waving protesters lit candles and chanted slogans Thursday in a show of support for a slain anti-mining activist known for sharply criticizing the environmental practices of Canadian companies working in Mexico. Mariano Abarca Roblero was killed last Friday...

The gunman opened fire with a handgun and then fled in a waiting van, which police later found abandoned, the official added. The dead man was identified as former police chief inspector Edgar Bayardo del Villar, who was arrested in...

President Filipe Calderon dissolved the state-owned Central Light and Power Company (LFC) late Saturday night (10/10/2009) and fired more than 41,000 union workers. This effectively shut down the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), one of Mexico's most combative and independent...

Arturo Chavez and US Attorney General Eric Holder are expected to discuss further co-operation in the extradition of suspected criminals to the US. Eleven fugitives were transferred over the Mexican border on Sunday, bringing the total extradited this year to...

H1N1 pandemic influenza remains a cause for concern because of its unpredictable nature, even though it has killed fewer than 5,000 people so far this year, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. A statement from the United Nations health...