A clipping from the Mexican newspaper El Diario about the gun battle between the officers and members of the cartel. Alarcon and Galindo are pictured at left.
A Mexican cop in search of sanctuary
A Juarez cop fled to Texas after drug cartels attacked him. Will a judge send him back?
AUSTIN, Texas — One day in April of last year, four-year police veteran Jose Alarcon and his partner, Capt. Felipe Galindo, detained two armed drug dealers after making a traffic stop in Juarez, Mexico. It didn’t take long for the Juarez Cartel to learn about the bust.
The cartel had a network of street spies, and it had so thoroughly infiltrated the department that thugs...
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Censorship increases as killings become routine. "I don’t want to die young," says one reporter.
Mural makeover
John Enders - Mexico - November 12, 2009 16:50 ET
Mexico is restoring the murals of Diego Rivera — admirer of Lenin, friend of Trotsky and lover of Frida Kahlo.
On Location: Mexico City — Gangster chic
Ioan Grillo - Mexico - November 9, 2009 09:22 ET
Vigilante justice spreads across Mexico
Ioan Grillo - Mexico - October 28, 2009 05:39 ET
More Mexicans turn to the lynch mob as crime spirals out of control.
“Legalize it” lobby gains strength across Americas
Ioan Grillo - Mexico - October 20, 2009 05:26 ET
Mexico and other Latin American countries are moving toward drug decriminalization — and Washington isn't complaining.
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Mexico’s "business class" refugees
Todd Bensman - Mexico - October 18, 2009 17:14 ET
Violence is pushing Mexican elites to buy their way to safety using a special class of U.S. visas available only to the rich.
Full Frame: Worshipping Saint Death
Brian L Frank - Full Frame - October 15, 2009 14:45 ET
A photographer visits Mexico's most notorious barrios, where death is the only truth in life.
Full Frame: Born behind bars
Caroline Bennett - Full Frame - October 15, 2009 14:44 ET
A photographic journey inside a prison where babies live with their incarcerated mothers.
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A World of Trouble: Is the nightmare over?
Thomas Mucha - Commerce - October 14, 2009 13:35 ET
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Stanford scam bilked Jews out of millions
Todd Bensman - Commerce - September 24, 2009 13:50 ET
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Cities of sisterly love
John Enders - Mexico - September 19, 2009 08:15 ET
A sister-city relationship between a Mexican town and an Oregonian one has led to 79 marriages.
Full Frame: Unusual cultures, uncommon places
Tewfic El-Sawy - Worldview - September 15, 2009 08:06 ET
A photographer documents endangered cultures and traditional ways of life in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Mexico's growing obesity problem
Ioan Grillo - Mexico - August 30, 2009 14:50 ET
With fattier diets and changing lifestyles, Mexico is packing on the pounds.
A new stage for drug deals and turf wars
Nadja Drost - The Americas - August 29, 2009 17:00 ET
Panama, once one of Latin America's safest countries, is now home to gangs and drug violence.
So long, Beckham. You won't be missed.
Mark Starr - Sports - August 13, 2009 15:23 ET
Why soccer in America will survive a failed experiment.
Meet the economic gangsters
Mark Scheffler - Commerce - August 12, 2009 09:03 ET
Economic gangsters come in all shapes and sizes — they're Asian dictators and Somali pirates.
Full Frame: Growing up in jail
Caroline Bennett - Worldview - August 11, 2009 11:02 ET
'Three Amigos Summit' highlights split on trade
Ioan Grillo - Commerce - August 10, 2009 18:10 ET
Post photo-op smiles, North American leaders resume tough stance on trade.
Why Mexican crystal meth is America's problem
Ioan Grillo - Mexico - August 1, 2009 12:08 ET
Once the hobby of bikers with bath tubs, meth production has gone international and industrial.
Global Blogs:
Pirate ship sails
Felipe Zapata, Author, The Zapata Tales - Mexico - November 18, 2009 18:31 ET
We´re overdue for big changes in Mexico.That´s one thing.Another thing is that the Gringos are clueless about Mexico. Maybe that will change, but don´t bet on it.But let´s not address that here. Let´s go out on the dock to our sister ship, the black pirate, The Bierce...
The Get-A-Way
Viva Veracruz - Mexico - November 18, 2009 06:37 ET
Get-a-ways are designed for just that. Living day to day in Xico, Veracruz we seldom if ever have anything to get away from. Life is easy going and fun right in town. Rancho Del Cielo is just 3 miles across town past the cemetery and up the mountain side about a thousand feet...
Viva Mauricio
David Lida - Mexico - November 16, 2009 08:34 ET
Immaculately dressed, every salt-and-pepper hair in place, sporting a Clark Gable moustache, Mauricio Garcés starred in a series of saucy comedies in the 60s and 70s, in the role of a mature and world-weary seducer, famous for lines of dialogue like “Debe ser...
Día y Noche de los Muertos: Day and Night of the Dead, November 2009
Mexico Cooks - Mexico - November 14, 2009 11:00 ET
Catrinas de papel maché (death-mocking figures made of paper maché). The catrín (male figure) and catrina (female figure) come from the late 19th-early 20th Century drawings by political cartoonist José Guadalupe Posadas. Posadas drew his skeletons dressed in finery of...
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