Felipe Calderon
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‘Worse than any horror film’: Inside a Los Zetas cartel ‘kitchen’
- US
- April 9, 2020, 20:18
Bloody handprints on walls, stained clothes, plastic cable ties, machetes and, as one person observes, the crunch of bones beneath a thick blanket of (...)

Day of the Dead offers little solace for families of kidnapped students
- World
- November 8, 2019, 20:42
More than five years after 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college in Guerrero were kidnapped by Mexican police and subsequentl(...)

After ‘El Chapo’, Mexico faces a new phase in its neverending war on drugs
- World
- February 21, 2019, 01:00
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received a blunt warning earlier this month: a crude hand-painted sign strung up on a bridge in the border city (...)

Mexico to become third country to legalise marijuana
- World
- December 29, 2018, 01:00
Nicolás Calderón has a passion and a plan. Now all he needs is for Mexico to legalise pot. The 17-year-old entrepreneur, who wants to set up a Mexico(...)

Mexico’s next president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Monday he will seek to remain in Nafta along with the United States and Canada and that (...)

Working with drugs trade in bid to keep Mexico’s democracy alive
- World
- January 13, 2016
Statistics from Mexico’s war on drugs tell a story so cruel it can be difficult to comprehend. Estimates of the number killed over the past decade ran(...)

Business continues as usual in Mexico’s brutal drug trade
- World
- November 22, 2014, 01:02
Inside the grim world of Mexico’s drug cartels, the money is good, the risks are great and staff turnover enables a swift ascent through company ranks(...)

Robinson calls for Europe to push on emissions cuts
- Environment
- September 29, 2014, 01:00
EU heads of state and governments need to adopt an ambitious target to cut carbon emissions if Europe is to retain its leadership on climate change(...)

Mexico’s most wanted man Joaquin Guzman captured
- World
- February 22, 2014, 20:45
Mexico’s most wanted man, drug kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, has been captured, president Enrique Pena Nieto said today, announcing a major (...)

Mexico urges vigilantes to stand down in drugs gang conflict
- World
- January 14, 2014, 16:39
Mexico’s government has pledged to take control of a violent western state after days of fighting between masked vigilantes and members of one of the (...)